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Executive Coaching and Leading Change

Lead Change Blog

A coach serves as a valuable partner by offering a collaborative process in five key areas: brainstorming, awareness, action plans, accountability, and encouragement. The leader is more likely to show up as the best version of herself as the coach helps her gain awareness of barriers to effectiveness. Brainstorming. Action Plans.

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What Great Leaders Know That Good Leaders Don’t about Self-Regulation

General Leadership

If our EQ capacity empowers us to effectively leverage our emotions to bring about better business outcomes, then – our ability to exercise self-regulation powers our EQ capacity. Consider the following: If EQ is to us, what an engine is to a car – then self-regulation is the drive train that powers how we operate.

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What Happens Now? A Look at 7 Reasons Leaders Stall

Leading Blog

If we are to generalize, we can say that you advance as a leader, the technical and tactical skill you need—distribution expertise, for example—pale in comparison to the strategic and interpersonal.” More importantly, which skills that you value today should you deemphasize—or resist exercising at all? to help you remain a leader. “If

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Leadership Lessons from a 19th Century Genius

Leading Blog

Instead, I let short-term tactical thinking cloud my execution. He was very responsive to being challenged, to see beyond the tactical aspects of his role and embrace a more strategic one. Resisting multi-tasking is an everyday challenge. Rather than crafting a role that made sense, I tried to force a fit. Don’t give in.

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10 Leadership Qualities & Characteristics of Good Leaders

Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

Once completing his Law degree in London, he spearheaded a nonviolent resistance to the successful campaign for India’s freedom from British rule in 1947. The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery, and tenacity.” – Mahatma Gandhi. Humility gets results.

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How to Bridge Differences for Better Mentoring

Skip Prichard

Although many mentoring pairs resist having a structured mentoring relationship, we have found that they find the structure to be freeing because they don’t have to wonder what to do or say every time. Self-awareness is the first step for mentor and mentee. Preparation is truly key. Think about how you learn best.

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Getting to Yes

Coaching Tip

A negotiation can be a long process, and you have to resist the urge to give in due to impatience, irritation, or exhaustion. for a Final Answer and Other Tactics to Win at the Bargaining Table. Good negotiators will wear your down; it's part of their strategy. Related articles. Five Things All Great Negotiators Do.