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Thanks for visiting my blog! I am a leadership professor and a professional coach. I provide coaching to leaders and individuals pursuing intentional growth. And I empower leaders to take a coach approach in their roles.
I write about leadership, coaching, and personal development. You will find interesting research in my posts with lots of practical application.
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Four Questions to Build Your Confidence
When you find yourself lacking confidence, this state of lower confidence does not need to define you or derail you. In fact, confidence can be learned, practiced, reset, and refined.
The four questions here provide a simple but streamlined guide to helping you develop stronger confidence for a new task, an unfamiliar situation, an unexpected transition, or a challenging role.
Mapping Your Path to Personal Growth: Navigating the Five Stages of Boyatzis' Intentional Change Theory
In the pursuit of personal and professional development, understanding what we should expect in a change process, and what can do to facilitate more sustainable change is critical. Intentional Change Theory, established by thought leader Richard Boyatzis, outlines five stages that create a pathway for you to pursue when intentionally seeking to bring about positive transformation in your life.
Six Strategies to Cultivate a Coaching Mindset
Coaching is a powerful vehicle for discovery, growth, and change. A coaching mindset, embodied by a skilled coach or leader, is the context that encourages this journey of growth and change to take place.
A coaching mindset can enhance personal growth through self-coaching and inspire growth in others by maximizing coachable moments.
Eight Questions to Inspire Growth & Change
The start of the year represents a meaningful opportunity to work towards new goals or a freshly inspired plan. If you’re feeling discouraged in the growth journey, or just looking for fresh motivation, find some strategies here to help you persevere.
Three Tools for Self-Reflection
Points of transition provide us the powerful opportunity to pause and reflect, to consider what’s working and what’s not. Grab some fresh inspiration and tools to help make your reflection times more meaningful and strategic.
The 2022 Gift Guide for Leaders
Find a thoughtful gift for the leader in your life … or add these items to your own wish list!
Seven Steps to Less Stress
Unhealthy stress is a major challenge for workplaces, schools, and homes across the world. As leaders, we need proven stress relief strategies to effectively self-manage and to provide support for those around us.
Read on to learn the top research-based strategies to support healthy stress management.
How to Support a Growth Mindset through Self-Assessment
A growth mindset inspires us to stretch and expand beyond our current capabilities. Learn how our results from self-assessments such as CliftonStrengths, MBTI, and the Enneagram, can be applied to inspire a growth mindset.
How to Choose the Best Self-Assessment
Self-assessments play an important role in helping us understand and articulate our uniqueness, gain empathy for our colleagues, family, and friends, and speak a common vocabulary with teammates. The variety of options can be energizing, but it can also be confusing to understand the distinctions, and to know which assessment will help meet your specific needs.
If you are pursuing personal or professional development — for yourself or your team — consult this quick guide to maximize your return on investment.
How to Build Your Creative Capacity
Being forced to innovate can be arduous and stressful in the moment. With the realization that former approaches to our work are no longer sustainable, panic and chaos can ensue.
As leaders, how can we establish consistent practices that support ongoing inspiration for creativity and innovation?
Rate your Readiness for Change
As you kick off a New Year, what resolutions have you resolved to pursue? What new intentions are you trying to implement? How committed are you to kicking old habits and forming new ones?
In this blog, I will explore five stages of change to give you a roadmap to support you in your change-making journey.
Seven Questions to Inspire Change
How can you inspire long-lasting change?
Thoughtful, well-timed questions offer us an invitation to rich reflection and insightful discussion. Strategic, intentional questions can create new insight and opportunity for growth.