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Coaching Success by the Alphabet

by Kevin Eikenberry on October 18, 2010

in Developing Others,Leadership,Learning

Being an effective coach is a leadership skill – as you coach successfully you help create the future you are leading people towards. However, being an effective coach is more than leadership – it is an important life skill as well. We all can be more effective at coaching in our communities, in our families, [...]

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Become a Question Collector

by Kevin Eikenberry on October 15, 2010

in Developing Others,Leadership,Learning

On a teleseminar for our future Remarkable Leadership Certified Coaches and Resellers (if that thought intrigues you, let us know and we will tell you about the benefits and when the next session starts) last night I urged them to become collectors of questions. This is an important idea, one that few coaches and leader [...]

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In a Bud to Boss Workshop earlier this week, a question was asked that I had some trouble answering at first, and because of that I have been continuing to think about it. Without exposing any confidences from the group or providing too much detail, the crux of the question was something like this: Are [...]

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This short post is prompted by Dan Rockwell’s great post yesterday on his fine Leadership Freak Blog. In it he proposes that “what’s important to you” is the most powerful question of all (read it, it is less than 300 words  – and the comments are awesome too).  While I’m not not great at “give [...]

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Next month I am delivering a brand new program that I extremely excited about! Coaching Training Camp is designed for any leader who wants to be a more effective coach or mentor. Coaching and developing others is one of the most important roles of a leader. While that may seem pretty obvious, for many leaders [...]

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Leaders sometimes have to deal with complacent people – those people who are seemingly happy with their current position or status or job performance. Gather leaders and coaches for any length of time and this challenge is likely to come up. Inherent in the challenge and the questions they ask about those behaviors is a [...]

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I just read this quotation and it strikes me as so very powerful. “Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.” – Paul Leonard Newman (1925-2008) Aren’t you glad someone invited Paul Newman to a drama class? But more importantly to you [...]

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As Your Leadership Help Button we want to help you – and the leaders around you – be your very best. That’s why we’ve created these two teleseminars. One we delivered nine months ago – and I’ve updated it; the other is brand new. Let me tell you a bit about them, and how you [...]

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In our recent Coach and Be Coached Remarkable TV event, we talked not only about the value and importance of being a great coach (see my post from Saturday with some of my reflections on that skill set), but we discussed at length the importance and value for us as leaders in receving coaching.  Through interviews with over [...]

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Last week during our Coach and Be Coached Event on Remarkable TV, we had over a dozen leadership and coaching experts talking about the skills of coaching and the importance of being coached.  As I reflected on the lessons I heard from these experts three things came back to me time and time again. As [...]

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