Your great boss just quit..now what?
A great boss can make your career and change your life. But how do you handle that sudden meeting when your team gets called together and your great boss announces they are leaving? We often think about leadership in a very individual way. But once you are in a middle to senior level leadership role
- Published in Growth, Happiness, Influencing upwards, Resilience, Self-awareness, Way of being
Taking the ‘difficult’ out of difficult conversations
Power of labels A regular topic in my coaching work with leaders is ‘difficult conversations’. Seems straight-forward, right? Get a model and guide the person through the techniques for having a ‘difficult conversation’. A few good questions, active listening and off you go. These techniques are very useful. But often there is still this nagging
- Published in Engagement, Influence, Interpretation, Leader, Self-management, Uncategorized, Way of being
Leaders – Idealistic realists
Often, leaders come to coaching sessions with conflicted energy. I can see it in their faces. There is the energy of creativity, imagination and future focus. An eye to the horizon of how things can be better. There is also a feeling of wrestling, of struggle against immovable forces, even of being trapped or stuck.
- Published in Leader, Strategy, Way of being