International Coach Academy

DECEMBER 21, 2023

There’s a solution. 1] The reality is, that people frequently encounter situations that trigger negative emotions. The WISE coaching approach, therefore, emerged as a powerful tool for personal and professional development to become more effective in our roles as employees, managers, leaders, or parents.

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International Coach Academy

JUNE 13, 2023

A Coaching Power Tool By Marijn Sissingh, Life Coach, Non-profit Leadership Coach, NETHERLANDS How Does Existing vs. Creation Impact Our Communities? Connecting two totally different components of society, as Denger did, is an unusual way of finding solutions. What Is the Difference Between Existing vs. Creation?

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International Coach Academy

JANUARY 23, 2024

This mindset of blinding believing what we are told by church and state limits our ability to think about future possibilities and new awareness. It is not until we question our perceptions, beliefs, and knowledge, that we break through what we think we know, to imagine what could be different.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 29, 2024

Note: This is part three of our four-part “Better Teamwork” series. Part 1: Better Teamwork: 12 Practical Habits to Build Deeper Connection. Part 2: Great Teams: 12 Practical Collaboration Habits to Create Clarity 12 Habits to Foster More Curiosity and Creativity on Your Team 1. Incubator Guide Here.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2023

We worked together to define our values. The Invisible Barrier to Great Corporate Culture Our favorite definition of culture comes from marketing guru Seth Godin. In the absence of other solutions, spend more time on quality and you get slower. Rarely will you find a perfect solution to every values conflict.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

1:45 Responsibility vs. Opportunity: Why understanding the difference can be a game-changer for executives facing communication breakdowns. ’ Why this common solution is often unsustainable in the workplace. ’ Discover why this question reveals a bigger issue in communication and leadership within organizations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 3, 2022

In fact, in our recent LinkedIn poll, 61% said “compassion” was most the most critical leadership value this year. In our research for our book, Courageous Cultures, we asked employees to share “their biggest moment of courage at work.” Why these three leadership values? Compassion.

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International Coach Academy

MARCH 14, 2022

Joe McCafferty from Tandem Solutions helped provide insights into how we learn and where coaching fits in (see Figure 1 below). Figure 1: How Coaching Supports Learning – Source: Tandem Solutions. Figure 1: How Coaching Supports Learning – Source: Tandem Solutions. Creating Trust. References. [1]Gaskell,

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In today’s Asking for a Friend from the PMI Rochester conference, David shares our very popular “9 What’s” whats coaching methodology to empower better decision-making and problem-solving. Finish gathering facts by asking them to talk about the consequences of the solutions they’ve already tried. Reflection.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2022

You have a vision, and you’re energized about your new solution, but they’re skeptical, critical, and keep bringing up problems. When you ask what’s going on, they smirk and say, “Right, like you really want our ideas.”. Solution: Build a habit of regular encouragement. Leading a negative team member can be frustrating.

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International Coach Academy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Pick one or more options: partner supporter lighthouse solid rock challenger other… What was the main breakthrough experienced during our sessions together? For my study clients, the conclusion was that coaching should be part of our lives like sleep, job, and any other activity that fulfills our needs.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 18, 2022

Need a solution to a seemingly no-win scenario with a customer? How you are REALLY feeling… I was recently catching up with a client (turned into a friend) whom we had worked with several years ago, right after our first book came out. A few conversation starters: This project exceeded our customer’s expectations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

One of the interesting parts of being regular leadership writers (we’ve been blogging here at Let’s Grow Leaders since 2012), is to see which of our leadership blog posts resonate the most with our readers and why. This leadership blog from 2014 continues to be our most-read leadership article. Read more here.

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International Coach Academy

APRIL 18, 2024

As a coach, it is our role to help and empower the client to connect to their inner experience and deeper self. This is what we would like to achieve in coaching and ensure our clients can find that insight and guidance from within. Openness allows us to tap into the full spectrum of possibilities and find creative solutions.

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International Coach Academy

AUGUST 21, 2023

A Coaching Model By Cyrus Erickson, Executive Leadership Coach, UNITED STATES TIME Time is money and one of our most valuable resources. Just imagine the statement and solution to the sentiment “I just need time to think!” Just imagine the statement and solution to the sentiment “I just need time to think!” What is the solution?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

A few months into my work there, a man named Jack took me aside and said, “David, I noticed that when you come into our all-hands meeting, you walk straight up to the front row, sit down, open your notebook and are ready to take notes.” A favorite of ours we learned from our Swiss clients is “Put the fish on the table.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 11, 2024

Let me walk you through a few of our contingency plans. When you can understand why they act the way they do, you are in a better position to come up with constructive solutions. Effective Strategies for Better Stakeholder Management Here are a few approaches and what to say to destress your day, and keep your project on track.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 7, 2023

We had a respectful and open conversation about our needs and agreed on what each party needed to change. ” In our Courageous Cultures innovation programs, we’ll often ask participants to talk about one of their most “courageous moments” at work. One of our clients, a US Marine veteran is fond of saying.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 31, 2021

For example: “I’ve noticed that in the past month you come to me with four different ideas about how we should improve security, revamp the training program, change our workforce management, and reorganize product management. Which of them do you think would help achieve our #1 strategic priority? Schmoozers. Let it sink in.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

. “Yes, my team can do that for you,” might mean, “I’m going to have to postpone our team’s strategic planning offsite. In our leadership programs, we always recommend facing difficult conversations with confidence and humility. But for now, our focus is training humans on human-centered leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 22, 2024

7 Ways to Help Your Team Do More 1. If your team regularly brings you solutions that won’t work , they probably don’t understand the context well enough. Or do you have choke points of one overwhelmed expert or manager that keeps everyone else waiting around? More on that research here.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2023

You can use our Development Discussion Planner to prepare for the conversation. Build Your Network When you invest in more relationships, you’ll have more opportunities, solutions, and wisdom. Use our Do It Yourself 360 process to have these conversations and get the feedback to help you be your best. Use our I.D.E.A.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2022

I care about __ (you, this team, this project) and I’m confident we can find a solution that we can all work with. So, to recap our conversation, we’ve agreed to. Let’s schedule some time to talk about this again, and see how our solution is working. Depersonalize the conflict by personalizing the conversation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 12, 2021

For Problems] Discuss and Choose an Appropriate Solution. As we waited for our food to arrive, I got up to wash my hands. Not every complaint needs a solution. For Problems] Discuss and Choose an Appropriate Solution. For problems, however, the solution will depend on the specific situation. Schedule the Finish.

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International Coach Academy

DECEMBER 19, 2023

A Coaching Power Tool By Daria Daves, Leadership & Life Coach, GERMANY Feeling Good at Your Workplace – How Our Mindset Matters Based on various studies [1] the most prevalent emotions in the workplace are stress, frustration, anxiety, and annoyance. The exploration of unfulfilled needs is a matter of a different power tool.

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International Coach Academy

AUGUST 17, 2022

Aqua represents a coaching model that reflects movement, the movement that has characterized humankind since our very first moment of existence. Moving forward by exploring, discovering, and changing to adapt has been the key to our survival and growth. Like water, our lives search for a path to move and flow with energy.

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International Coach Academy

JULY 31, 2023

Emotions are an integral part of the human experience, and they play a significant role in shaping our thoughts, behaviors, and decisions. The relationship between life coaching and emotions is a complex one, as emotions can both motivate and hinder our progress toward our goals.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 30, 2021

Our direct reports displayed incredible courage and compassion–for us. They chose the human-centered leadership that we’d let our stress undermine. You’re not doing the work to get the numbers, the promotion, be the best, or look good to your neighbors (even though these are often the sources of our stress and anxiety).

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International Coach Academy

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Given this context, it will be helpful to support our executive clients to understand and appreciate the value of vulnerability. Instead of being a problem, vulnerability can be a solution. She emphasizes that vulnerability is not weakness, but rather our most accurate measurement of courage.

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International Coach Academy

APRIL 26, 2023

It is strange to think that for all of the ways human beings have become infinitely more connected, we still grapple with finding the “right” words, solutions, and strategies for our lives. What if we struggle to find our voice because we have forgotten how to listen to the wisdom inside of us? What is the Somatic Approach?

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International Coach Academy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Offline, every year, we send our Christmas and New Year’s postcard to our relatives and friends but only 3-4% are really existing in our social loop. As a result, he dedicates himself to searching for a solution to improve the team’s performance. He mentioned, “The bigger the team, the better performance”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Entrepreneurship is a chance to trade a solution to someone who has a problem that needs solving. One of the biggest challenges we hear from our fast-growing start-up clients is that it gets more and more difficult to keep everyone aligned on what matters most as the business scales. 5 Ways to Help Your Team Think Like Entrepreneurs.

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International Coaching Federation

JULY 13, 2023

Listening is an essential skill and a fundamental aspect of communication that can significantly improve the quality of our relationships, both personally and professionally. It takes effort and discipline to shut off our ego and focus fully on the client. To listen more effectively, we must cultivate our coaching presence.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 16, 2021

Two hours before the first day started, we received word that one of our newer team members had passed away. I postponed our agenda that morning. During the break, one of our Board of Directors, a retired CEO herself, approached me and said, “Karl, don’t you think we should move this along? Connect–as human beings. How are they?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

If any of these issues sound familiar, you can readily overcome them with a few straightforward solutions. Leadership Presence Mistake #1—Tunnel Vision. Plan for your performance conversations (use our INSPIRE Method ). How might we help our colleagues to solve that problem?”. Process it. They have a job to do.

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International Coach Academy

AUGUST 14, 2023

It took two sessions to come up with a powerful awareness-raising (session 1) that made clear to Natasa how she needed to change her perspective on the situation (session 2). NB 1: The sentences in quotation marks (“…”) have been literally expressed by Natasaduring the session. That is how we ended our first “Flip It” session.

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International Coach Academy

MAY 21, 2023

Connection comes in many different forms, be it with nature, other people, or in many cases with our goals and values. 1] A client can be disconnected from other people, ideas, or their own feelings. 2] Connection comes in many different forms, be it with nature, other people as well as with our goals and values. Connected…….

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