As an executive coach for the past eleven years, I have certainly learned much about working with high performing leaders and executives. The five key areas any leader or executive can benefit from an executive coach are:
What Is Executive Coaching, and What Isn’t It?
The term “coaching” in today’s world has gotten very complicated and misunderstood. In my youth, a coach was the guy who yelled at you from the sidelines if you were in any kind of sport. Today, we hear about coaching in a wide variety of areas, such as sports, music, relationships, spiritual development, executive and even “life coaching” in general.
Why Take Care of Your Team Members First?
My wife and I were at Canlis Restaurant in Seattle for dinner. I must confess, I’m usually content with Waffle House, so I was happy to catapult to the #7 restaurant in the U.S. I was secretly wondering, however, what it was that I was about to experience. My first clue should have been the New York Times review that noted, “A Canlis Salad, when properly prepared, is a revelation.” - Sam Sifton, NYT. A salad? A revelation? About that time, Wanda, our server who had been a team member at Canlis for 33 years, came up to our table and greeted us.
How to Keep It Real – Really!
It’s nothing new that breakdown (sin) is a part of the Christian journey.Some breakdowns are circumstantial, some perpetual while others are so subtle they manifest in the tones of our thought. Regardless of frequency or power, they keep us from thriving, growing, loving, caring and a thousand other amazing blessings God has for us.
