Executive Coaching Blog: Collaboration @ Work
Straight talk on collaboration, change, motivation, and managing for results, for busy VPs, Directors, and Managers who would rather think it through than go it alone.
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SOO-SOO-SOO! I’m Afraid My SOODA Loop Is Broken and I’m Stuck, But I Can’t Decide!
Living the VUCA Life Coronavirus has unexpectedly disrupted our lives. The daily events that create our sense of normalcy have been quarantined until an unknown future date. Our…
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What’s Motivating Displays of Extreme Behavior in this Crisis?
Special Guest Article By Jody Simpson, Ph.D. jsimpson@academy4motivation.com As the impact of the coronavirus unfolds, people are dealing with high levels of stress, learning new ways to cope…
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Frustration Is Your Brain’s Check Engine Light
Seeing your check engine light suddenly come on can be very frustrating. Did you know your brain has a natural check engine light? It’s the feeling of being…
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Assumptions Are Our Mind’s Flypaper
Reality is what we assume to be true. What we assume to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we…
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Understanding the Individual Millennial
So-called “Millennials” are rumored to be about to take over, save or ruin the world as we know it depending on which faddishly popular study of demographic trends…
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Don’t Try to Read Your Employees’ Minds
Different individual motives can create the need for the same behavior. We tend to explain others’ behavior using our own biased values. Asking, “Please help me understand why…
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The Better Tree
Secluded in a distant corner of life’s mysterious and murky forest grows the better tree. Towering through a fog of possibilities its branches stretch skyward seeking to bask…
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Are We There Yet?
No statement can exasperate a traveling parent like a cacophony of whiny “Are we there yets?” continuously barraging from the back seat by bored child-like passengers. Everyone has…
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Growth Goal
“Growth is the only evidence of life.” —John Henry Newman In business and in coaching we often speak of establishing SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-bound).…
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A Must-Read for Anyone Who Has a High Need to Achieve!
Can old dogs learn new tricks? Absolutely. Do highly accomplished high-need-for-achievement professionals (very talented old dogs) like to risk feeling like a beginner and novice to learn something…
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Why Can’t I Do What I Should Do? Skill vs. Will
A tricolour Basset Hound. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We all have tasks that we believe we “should” do if we want to achieve some goal. If you know what…
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Run Your Race
Horse Racing (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Why has a Clydesdale never won the Kentucky Derby? A Clydesdale is an amazingly beautiful, strong, large, and powerful steed, but it was…
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