Category: Leadership Coaching

How To Find Your Blind Spots

Self Awareness

04/06/21

Bijal Choksi

We all have blind spots. No one would question the existence of them when driving. Yet people are often oblivious or in denial about their blind spots in relationships, conversations, even projects and tasks. Blind spots are how you are deceiving yourself. You may say you want one thing, but in the moment, your actions… Read More

How To Become a Servant Leader

Leadership Coaching

03/24/21

For many, the word “Leader” evokes images of people in formal positions of power. Leaders hold fancy titles and people follow them because they are obligated to. We assume we have to follow the Leaders’ direction or face the consequences. And this power-centered, authoritarian, and antiquated view on leadership is unfortunately still the norm in… Read More

How To Use Self-Regulation As A Leader

Leadership Coaching

02/09/21

Being an impactful leader takes more than business acumen and intelligence – it also requires emotional smarts and self-regulation. Author and psychologist Daniel Goleman, author of “Emotional Intelligence”, helped popularize the term and create more awareness of it in the 90’s. Goleman believes that success in life requires more than IQ alone. His research showed… Read More

How To Welcome New Employees: Onboarding and Building Trust In a Remote World

Leadership Coaching

01/19/21

Bijal Choksi

Are you onboarding new hires remotely? It’s even more important to be intentional about how you onboard new members of your team when you can’t do it in person. On this blog, we are discussing how to best welcome new employees and build trust in a remote world. Onboarding Employees Remotely 1. Connect With Your… Read More

Your Unique Leadership Style (and Why It Matters)

Leadership Coaching

12/29/20

When we traditionally think about leadership, we may automatically think of titles or people in charge (managers, supervisors, directors, and so on.) However, leaders aren’t only defined by their organizational title or role. They are defined by their actions and impact to a group or project’s goals and outcomes. There is no one size fits… Read More

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5 Ways to Improve Your Active Listening as a leader

Leadership Coaching

11/25/20

Shari Santoriello

Ask any group what is one of the things they wish their leader did better. One of the answers is almost always that they want to be heard. The leader looks on in surprise at this answer and says, “I hear you!” But, as leaders, do we listen? Do we really practive active listening as… Read More

How to Promote Psychological Safety In The Workplace

Leadership Coaching

10/23/20

Leena works in a high demanding job. There are pressures to hit numbers, manage her team and her clients. She is a high achiever and excels at work. Due to recent organizational changes, Leena has a new boss Desi. Desi can come across condescending and rough around the edges. He is not perceptive to people… Read More

How to Keep Your Team Motivated When Times Are Tough

Leadership Coaching

10/20/20

I don’t think I need to tell anyone that this year didn’t go as planned. For some, that meant unforeseen income and success, but for most of us, our businesses and wallets took a major hit. If you’re in a leadership position of any kind, you’ve likely felt the pressure to keep your team motivated… Read More

3 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Mindset

Leadership Coaching

09/15/20

Betsy Westhoff

“Tricks of the trade” for being an effective leader in 2020 are coming at us fast and furious. The past six months have demanded that effective leaders become curious, stay calm and flexible. As a leader you are likely dealing with intense fluctuations in information, business models, people, technology and data – not to mention… Read More

4 Ways to Empower Women in the Workplace

Leadership Coaching

08/31/20

Editorial Staff

The workplace has long been a hotbed for female inequality. And the sad truth is, there hasn’t been much improvement over the past decade. Here are a few facts about women in the workplace: On average, women earn about $0.81 to every $1 that men earn. Only 22% of C-suite executives are women. 35% of… Read More

The Importance of an Effective HR Department

Leadership Coaching

07/16/20

Editorial Staff

HR, or Human Resources, is an essential component of most businesses. Human Resources departments have various different roles and impact many different aspects of a workplace. HR can often be overlooked. However, the importance of an effective HR department is vital to the success of a business. Whether they are a small start-up or a… Read More