What do you do when you’re confronted with something you’re not good at? Some people get discouraged and quit. Others keep doggedly working to get better at it, and in the process become more “well-rounded” human beings. Conventional wisdom says that the second response is the healthy one. But the empirical evidence suggests that it’s [...]

I receive a lot of interesting and entertaining emails from friends of mine. Some I delete, and others I pass along. Every now and then, I get one that contains important public service information that should be passed along to everyone. One such email I received contained the following video of the latest on CPR [...]

“Adjust your approach.” As a coach, you’re probably familiar with this concept, as different clients need different tools – and different types of communication – to achieve the results they’re looking for. But most often, these adjustments are based purely on intuition; sometimes they make a difference in the client relationship, and sometimes they don’t. [...]

Why did you get into coaching? One of the most likely reasons is that you wanted to have a real, positive and lasting impact on the lives of your clients. Unfortunately, many of the approaches that coaches currently use in their work don’t have this kind of lasting effect, for the simple reason that they [...]

Article Contributed by Gary Jordan What does it take for 800 people to work together on a project with minimum friction? Back in 1983, that’s exactly what my partner Lynda-Ross and I aimed to figure out. When I fist met Lynda-Ross, she was managing a very large multi-year systems development project for a major corporation, [...]