Executive Coaching Articles

1). Whats Valuable About Having Values? By : Paul Lemberg
Let's talk about values... Yours. What kind? Family values, personal values, corporate values. So what are values - and why are they important to creating breakthroughs? Values are things we strive to gain or keep. They are the expression of what is important to us. Values can be concrete things like money, gourmet food, and fast motorcycles, or they can be abstract things like contribution, challenge, or adventure. Values, along with our beliefs about w...
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2). Leadership Just by Being Yourself By : Peter J Fisher
Leadership is all about being yourself and demonstrating personal authenticity rather than learning some formula from a text book. Aspiring leaders therefore need to be true to themselves; not slavishly following other’s ideas. Role models can be powerful and it doesn't hurt to model excellence when found; executive coaching is based on this premise.
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3). Customer Advisory Boards By : Paul Lemberg
Customer Advisory Boards are a great source of information about your market and your business. Their advice is more valuable than any management consultant's. They provide real world counsel on what you are doing right, what you are doing wrong, and most important -how to stay competitive. After all, they're the customer. They're the one's who buy your stuff.
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4). Found - The Time Lost in the Commute By : marie mastria
Time passes whether you do something with it or not, so why not make the most of it? Commuting time well spent can give you back the time you thought you had to give up to commute to and from work.
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5). How To Communicate Value Proposition And Return On Investment By : Paul Lemberg
As part of my continuing series on Value and Pricing, the following article shows you how to position your company's value contribution to support the highest value-for-value exchange. Too many business owners, when asked about the value or ROI of their product or service, shrug their shoulders and say, "I can't really put a value on it." If you can't.
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6). Executive Career Coaching: Providing Solutions To Succession Planning Challenges By : Jill Frank
Organizations today are facing several challenges and talent management is one of the greatest. According to a poll conducted by OI Partners, Inc., the number one challenge facing the HR profession is leadership development and succession planning. Attracting, developing, and retaining quality talent is more costly and has a greater impact on the bottom-line than ever before.
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7). Different Generations Boost Quality Executive Coaching! By : Paul Megan
Different age groups within your operation can bring different benefits and skills to the table. Managing those distinctions can make a huge difference.
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8). Take The Heat Off HR – Encourage Career Self-Management By : Jill Frank
Is tackling talent management one of your goals this year? Employees are becoming more demanding, and topping their list is professional growth and development. These are the employees you should be striving to keep. They want new challenges, interesting work, and the opportunity to develop new skills. Even if you don’t have the resources to implement a full-scale career development program, you can still provide your employees with the tools and support to manage their own careers.
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9). Top Performers Have These Customer Relationship Skills By : Dennis Sommer
Copyright 2006 Dennis Sommer Do want to be known as "The Expert" or "The Guru"? Do you want to advance your career and income? If you answered yes to both of these questions then you need to become a “Top Performer” in your profession. Whether you are now a Manager, Executive, Consultant, Sales or Service Specialist, then Customer Relationship skills will be one of the keys to your success.
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10). Never Enough Time By : Paul Lemberg
It's a cliche of executive life: you don't have time to do everything. Whether you use little slips of paper, a planner, scheduling software or a Palm Pilot, all attempts at time management fail. Rather than throwing in the towel, I suggest that you need a new frame of reference. Change your focus from time management to priority management. Create a list of priorities Your strategic plan should highlight your business priorities.
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11). Ten Entrepreneurial Mistakes By : Paul Lemberg
It's hard to avoid certain mistakes, especially when you face a situation for the first time. In fact, many of the following mistakes are hard to avoid even if you're an old hand. Of course, these are not the only mistakes CEOs make, but they sure are common enough. Take the following self assessment: give yourself ten points for each of these entrepreneurial blunders you are in the process of making.
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12). 5 Ways To Beef Up Sales...Immediately By : Paul Lemberg
Last week, one of my clients—we'll call him Rick—had a demo scheduled with a prospect. The standard "show up and throw up" they typically did early in the sales cycle. Trying to shorten the sales cycle, I asked naively, "Why does the customer want to buy? What are they trying to accomplish?" Rick couldn't tell me. I asked if he thought the salespeople knew.
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13). The Vital Few By : Paul Lemberg
Back in the 19th century, an Italian economist quantified the general relationship between a minority of producers and a majority of output. Sound familiar? The simplified version of Vilfredo Pareto's ratio, known as the 80/20 rule or the Pareto Principle, says that in most cases, 80% of production comes from 20% of producers. Quality guru J.M. Juran referred to Pareto's principle as "The Vital Few and the Trivial Many".
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14). Why Change Management Training is Essential for Your Company By : Carol Coulter
Let’s face it: Your company or organization is likely to go through a major transformation at some point. Whether it is in a division, within a function, or across the entire organization, you as a leader will need the skills to facilitate the change and help your business continue to thrive efficiently. Sometimes the reason for change is external; perhaps the change is pushing you.
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15). Peers and Power Are a Potent Mix By : Dr. Karen Otazo
Excerpted from the forth coming “The Truth About Being a Leader…And Nothing But The Truth” Have you ever walked into a high school locker room or a martial arts class? The smell that hits you is that of competition and sweat. In meeting rooms in organizations around the world, the dynamics, if not the aroma, are similar, as peers jockey for power in an adult version of sports competition.
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16). Top Performers Have These Critical Management Skills By : Dennis Sommer
Copyright 2006 Dennis Sommer Do want to be known as "The Expert" or "The Guru"? Do you want to advance your career and income? If you answered yes to both of these questions then you need to become a “Top Performer” in your profession. Whether you are now a Manager, Executive, Consultant, Sales or Service Specialist, then Management skills will be one of the keys to your success.
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17). Top Performers Have These Critical Communication and Questioning Skills By : Dennis Sommer
Copyright 2006 Dennis Sommer Do want to be known as "The Expert" or "The Guru"? Do you want to advance your career and income? If you answered yes to both of these questions then you need to become a “Top Performer” in your profession. Whether you are now a Manager, Executive, Consultant, Sales or Service Specialist, then Communication and Questioning skills will be one of the keys to your success.
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18). Team Building: Leadership Strategies To Address Today’s Most Common Team Building Problems By : Gayle Lantz
Despite best team building efforts, many organizations are still operating on low power when it comes to producing desired results. They’ve invested time and dollars in events that supposedly help team members bond and function coherently, yet results are short term at best. So what’s the problem? Every situation is unique, but here are a few possibilities: • Some or all members don’t want to function as a team.
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19). How One-on-One Executive Coaching Can Work For You By : Carol Coulter
Does your company need a jumpstart? Is revenue low, morale declining, and your leadership tactics no longer making an impact? This may be the perfect time to look into leadership coaching. A good executive coaching program should do more than just set you up with a speaker reading over a PowerPoint presentation. Team up your senior leaders with a.
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20). What Stops You? By : Paul Lemberg
Have you ever had a terrific idea which you didn't act on? Of course you have. I don't mean anything fancy either. Nothing earth-shattering. Just a plain old-fashioned good idea which would have made you more money. But you didn't get moving on it. Oh well. I have a friend I'll call James. James is an independent management consultant and a deep, creative thinker.
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21). Kiss the Ring: Hierarchy Matters (It’s not what you think) By : Dr. Karen Otazo
Excerpted from The Truth About Managing Your Career…And Nothing But The Truth. Someone once asked a Washington insider how to deal with important people whom you can’t stand. His reply? “You put on your respectful face and you don’t blink.” This strategy is known in business circles as “kissing the ring.” Its origins lie in a much earlier era, when royalty and clerics wore rings of office denoting their status.
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22). 8 Reasons To Form A Strategic Business Alliance By : Coach Darren
A strategic alliance is when two or more businesses join together for a set period of time. The businesses, usually, are not in direct competition, but have similar or complimentary products or services that are directed toward the same target audience. Below are ten reasons to create a strategic alliance. 1. You could offer your customers a larger variety of products or services.
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23). What Sort of Training is Most Effective? By : Robin Chandler
A cogent argument for good development programmes. It looks at addressing the needs of the individual and the groups being trained as well as the business needs.
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24). Equity: The Golden Handcuffs By : Paul Lemberg
Last month, I wrote about positioning your company to attract and keep top performers. One very effective way to do both is to compensate your key employees with equity. Performance pay has become a critical factor in keeping top talent; combine it with a sense of ownership and a stake in the future of the business, and you've got a powerful set of incentives.
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25). Ask Don't Tell Leadership - What If I Lose Control Of My Staff As A Leader? By : Gary B Cohen
Question: I am a sales manager for a business services firm in Minneapolis. I am responsible for all new business revenue for my company and I have 5 sales people that work for me. Of the 5 sales people only one is a star performer. The issue I am having is he breaks all the rules and creates really bad relationships with all the other people in the company.
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