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Thinking Styles: Find Out How You Think

In my work as a coach, I find most of us can’t identify our own thinking styles. We’re too immersed in our behaviors and habits.

January 4, 2016 No Comments

Creative Insights:
How to Spark the Flow of Ideas

As they share in their book, The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight and the Brain (Random House, 2015), psychology professors John Kounios and Mark

November 12, 2015 No Comments

What Blocks Creative Insights?

I’ve been exploring how leaders and managers can facilitate high performance in people through creative insights. Albert Einstein is reported to have said that if

November 9, 2015 No Comments

In Search of Team Effectiveness

When’s the last time you evaluated your work groups for team effectiveness? A recent survey found that 91 percent of high-level managers believe teams are

October 1, 2015 No Comments

Ask Innovative Questions to Inspire Breakthrough Thinking

If you want to inspire people at work to create breakthrough thinking, start by asking them innovative questions, like “Why?” “What if…?” “How might we…?”

August 20, 2015 No Comments

Mid Career Coaching:
Finding What Truly Matters

Do you know what truly matters most to you? I’ve been posting about mid career crisis, and this is really an opportunity for you to

July 6, 2015 No Comments

A Mid Career Crisis Story: Rinse and Repeat?

Hearing the phrase “mid career or midlife crisis” evokes the cliché of a successful executive (usually a man), between 40 and 55, who wakes up

June 25, 2015 No Comments

The Hero’s Journey: Your Journey to Self

The hero’s journey has been told and retold in many different ways in every culture throughout the world. Your own story might go something like

March 5, 2015 No Comments

The Authentic Leader Profile:
What Does an Authentic Leader Do?

Leaders cannot be adequately described by lists of traits or characteristics. Academics have struggled with this for years. Then, in 2003, Bill George’s book, Authentic

February 5, 2015 No Comments

Leadership Authenticity: 3 Problems in Becoming More Authentic

While virtually every leader has a sense of what “authenticity” means, few know how to develop it as a leadership skill. To complicate matters, leadership

February 2, 2015 No Comments