Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Some time ago a friend of mine asked me how to stay true to your journey toward fulfilling your dreams. Some time ago a friend of mine asked me how to stay true to your journey toward fulfilling your dreams. Roberto Martinez’s Thinking on Applauding Yourself. After all, it’s hard. There are competing pressures.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 10, 2024

Because mine is a professional sock chomper.” Get Better at Small Talk By Asking the Next Best Question Do you dread small talk? Does the idea of asking (or being asked) “How was your weekend?” make you cringe? You don’t have a lot of extra time for long conversations. You’ve got work to do. But here’s the thing. Jack: “Oh, wow!

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McKinsey

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A well-managed, motivated, and trained workforce has been a core driver for productivity and safety in mining; an unprecedented skills shortage in the mining industry is elevating talent to the top of miners’ agendas.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Here are a few of mine. With all the stress and pressure, sometimes it feels really hard to cultivate a feeling of gratitude at work. You might feel stuck. Or passed over. Or taken advantage of. Or just wanting someone to say “thank you” for all you’re doing–for goodness sakes. Life it tricky.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In mining, leaders must understand the strategic implications of cost curves, game theory, and real-options valuation; further, they must know and be sensitive to the stakeholders in their regulatory and societal environment, many of whom can directly influence their opportunities to create value. It’s a win-win. It feels slow.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 17, 2022

” “Yeah, mine too.” These conversation starters make caring dialogue a bit easier. For most teams, having genuine caring conversations takes practice. It can feel easier to keep the conversations light, particularly if that’s your team culture. Why practicing going a bit deeper matters. ”Ahh, good, man.”

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Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The mining industry is a demanding sector to survive in, with several safety hazards and isolated working locations. This makes it challenging for the management to foster employee engagement in the mining industry with a dedicated workforce. But why is it so important in this sector?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 5, 2017

When friends of mine interviewed people in the last years of their life, three themes emerged: be happy now, friends and family are critically important, and if you have a dream, go for it. If that’s you, you’re not alone. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Not for you. To me, that’s Winning Well. What do you want your legacy to be?

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Seth's Blog

JULY 5, 2025

They don’t use canaries in coal mines any more, but you might need a few. “If it breaks, we’ll know how to fix it.” ” Old cars had an oil light, and that was about it. Often, we build things hoping they’ll work. A personal finance plan and a career probably need one too.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

The shortest way to answer this question is to ask, “Is this meeting for the team/employee’s benefit or for mine?” Misguided support. Keep information to yourself. Fear new ideas. Lack of accountability. What is an Empowered Team? Even the core meaning of the word (to give power) is challenging. It isn’t the work you do or how smart you are.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Just as my team (then) and you (now) watch mine. .” Sometimes they say it, sometimes I just see it in their eyes, or hear it as subtext to their question, “oh where are you off to this week?” ” So I’m a bit in the camp of “who are we to judge?” notconfidentorhumble. Hope you’re doing well.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 24, 2015

Well that was me, about 15 years ago, single (again), feeling old (ironic now) and unsure on the Acela train. It was just after the diversity council debacle. I was sitting in the café car on my way to NYC for another meeting trying to rebuild trust. I hadn’t looked up when the crowd pushed on at the Wilmington stop. Where are you from?

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 25, 2016

Chapter 22: What If My Boss Doesn’t Want to Win and Doesn’t Care About Their Soul or Mine is particularly useful in this situation. Winning Well can help you survive and even thrive despite a Gamer boss or toxic work environment by creating pockets of excellence. Already read it?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 6, 2017

We mined for stories. ” I read the words he’d painstakingly written, full of the usual “I’d like to thank my parents and teachers.” ” I’m not sure if it was the look on my face or the fact that he knew it wasn’t his best work, that revealed my concern. Perhaps you’ve been there.

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International Coach Academy

MARCH 3, 2024

For example, a high school student, Amber (the daughter of a good friend of mine and someone I have coached), has a basket as a student, a volleyball player, a guitar player, and a girlfriend to name just a few of her stronger identities. It is the perception of who one is, and the factors that contribute to that perception.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Here are a few of mine. With all the stress and pressure, sometimes it feels really hard to cultivate a feeling of gratitude at work. You might feel stuck. Or passed over. Or taken advantage of. Or just wanting someone to say “thank you” for all you’re doing–for goodness sakes. Life it tricky.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2017

Here’s what mine says: I pledge that I will use my power to make today a fantastic day. The teacher thinks for a moment, then replies, “Bring me water.”. The student finds a large brass bowl, fills it with water, and brings it to the teacher. Here, teacher, is your water.”. And that’s how it is with storytelling.

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 2, 2019

If your desktop is anything like mine, it can be a scary place. “When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.”. ? By Molly Barnes, Digital Nomad Life. It can be hard to avoid time wasters at work, especially in the digital world we live in. Here are six ways. It’s a win-win! Utilize the Cloud. Embrace the Headphones.

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The Creative Life

JUNE 30, 2025

Mine is 8-10am.) A self-imposed one, but a deadline nonetheless. It’s been. And it slowed me down. So yesterday morning, instead of writing my weekly newsletter as planned, I went for coffee with a writer friend, then for a walk along the seafront. It was bliss. No one complained. Perhaps this is a familiar pattern to you, too?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Establish Your Leadership As a mentor of mine, Gail used to say, “Where there is chaos seize control.” Reduce “Zoo Fatigue”: Take Control of Executive Visits “Hi Karin, I’m a manager of our flagship location. Which is pretty cool. And… we are getting SO MANY executive visits.

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McKinsey

MARCH 1, 2023

Southeast Asia is a top producer of base metals, including nickel and copper, but its downstream-processing industry is lagging behind. Investing in digital and analytics could enhance productivity.

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International Coach Academy

JULY 23, 2024

Presence Anxiety is a state of emotional turbulence characterized by stories, thoughts, worries, and hypotheses about actions that have already taken place in the past, or that might take place in the future Coaching helps the client to engage with the present moment, making sense of the past and mining it for useful data while not getting overly caught (..)

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McKinsey

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Advanced analytics can drive value only if employees use them to make decisions. But adoption is often the biggest stumbling block in analytics initiatives. Here’s how to get it right.

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McKinsey

MAY 25, 2018

To address its productivity challenge, the mining industry has invested heavily in technology. New evidence shows that it also needs to pay more attention to its people.

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International Coach Academy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

I cannot get the dream job of mine as I am not good enough. I can get my dream job of mine as I am good enough. I am a looser as I can’t focus on the task and complete it. I am always been like this. I am not good enough as I can’t make more friends. I cannot achieve success and get the promotion as I am not good enough.

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International Coach Academy

MAY 23, 2023

Mine is «to tell the story of who I am with my whole heart and live up to it» THR I VE – I MAGINE Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not , and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. Do you want to lead or to follow? What would it feel like if you decided the rules of this game ?

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McKinsey

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A wealth of diverse tech talent is available, if companies expand their approach to hiring them.

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International Coaching Federation

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

New to the concept of coaching, I judged their worthiness in part based on how similar their career paths had been to mine. While she had certainly experienced challenges and emotions like mine, “I understand what you’re going through” was not something I remember her saying. “How How would you like to work with that today?” .

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 22, 2023

Sometimes “quitting” the situation, the person, or even the job, is the best choice. 7 Questions to Ask Yourself if You’re on the Fence about Quitting a Workplace Conflict How do you know if you should walk away from a conflict at work? Or even quit your job? Here are a few powerful questions to help you decide. Have I tried?

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The heavier you are, the heavier your backpack and mine weighed 50 pounds. And you don’t have to know how to do everything you’ll be called upon to do. Just find the tracks of the people who’ve gone before and take it step by step, poco a poco. Hey, it’s David. So how’d we get there? We should hike up it.

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Vantage Circle

AUGUST 5, 2024

My parents specifically emphasized the obvious “hard work goes a long way” mantra as they reminisced about how their own hard work had gotten them various accolades and rewards that are now seated on the living room mantle, along with mine of course! Exhausted but proud, I presented it to my team.

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International Coach Academy

JANUARY 13, 2024

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. That one comment, made by a stranger when I was a teenager adhered to my heart so strongly and for so long that I believed it to be mine long after my identity had evolved. How do you find your way back? You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

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McKinsey

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the gold-mining industry and its workers. Production and costs could hinder what should be near-record profits, and how each company reacts will determine its long-term success.

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On The Job

AUGUST 13, 2008

Recently I ran into a friend of mine who told me he's quitting his job and going back to school to become a registered nurse. I was a bit surprised: Quit a job in this economy? Take on more student loan debt? Then, a third was laid off," he said. "I I was given those duties in addition to what I was already doing." I just don't get it. (You

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International Coach Academy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A Coaching Model By Hilary Taggart, Transformational Coach, UNITED KINGDOM Flow Line The Flow Line represents your path in life. It is a continuous, flexible line, always moving in a forward direction. It also signifies actively and purposefully journeying towards what you want. And, wouldn’t things be boring if it was? Yet everything is connected.

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International Coach Academy

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

He remarked, “ We seem content to dig for coal in a gold mine.” The small yet alarming ‘canary in the coal mine’ was that consumer tastes were moving, the way this commodity would be consumed was evolving, and with it a change in the rules of the game. In reflecting on this observation, it was clear the reasons for our contentment.

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International Coach Academy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It would not be MY Power Tool if I had read it somewhere and this is supposed to be mine. Contrast I started preparing my power tool by reviewing IFC, ICA, and other organizations’ Power Tools, searching the internet for information, and reviewing what some of my colleagues have posted on CoachCampus , but was drawing a blank.

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