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8 Leadership Lessons: Stay Strong!
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Winter can be a long, trying season for many – but spring is just around the corner. For leaders, too, each “season of leadership” requires resilience, adaptability, and hope for the future.
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Improving Artificial Intelligence When Coaching Employees
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When coaching employees, even artificial intelligence could benefit from a boost of individualized attention.
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5 Tips for Becoming an Executive Coach to your Team
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At LWF, we work with a wide range of businesspeople and organizations interested in our executive coaching services. One misperception we sometimes hear is the belief that executive coaching should primarily focus on advancing that executive’s own career.
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Leadership Resolutions and Motivations
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The latest (Nov./Dec.) issue of Harvard Business Review features an article about motivating people, specifically related to goal setting (“Why You Should Stop Setting Easy Goals”). It focuses on challenges managers face when motivating a team: balancing goals that are high enough to challenge yet low enough to not cause discouragement.
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Envisioning the Future: 9 Tips for ‘19
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As another year winds down, anticipation builds for the opportunities ahead in 2019. How can you fully engage your team in envisioning and goal-setting for a successful future? Here are 9 tips:
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Three Ways Gratitude Helps You
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Around Thanksgiving, it’s natural to reflect on gratitude and its impact in our lives, including our relationships and careers.
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7 Tips for Managing Conflict Proactively
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Conflict is inevitable in organizations. But when managed proactively, it can lead to transformative change and growth. Consider these 7 helpful tips.
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Q&A: Executive Coaching
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At LWF, our executive coaching model incorporates practical experience, psychological research and business acumen. One of our team, Cara Wade, PhD, recently shared her insights.
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Fostering Curiosity: 6 Tips to Buffer against Burnout
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“Curiosity” is in the spotlight in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR) (September/October 2018), with several articles exploring aspects of this theme related to managing people, psychology, and leadership development.
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“Gaining Influential Male Leaders as Change Agents” Discussed at Dallas S.H.E. Summit
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Today, although American women comprise almost half the workforce, they hold less than five percent of CEO roles at Fortune 500 companies. In the U.S., full-time, year-round female workers face a 20 percent gender pay gap, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy and Research.
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Still Relevant, Worthy Leadership Model Marks 10 Years
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Today if you Google “leadership crisis” you’ll find more than 400 million results. Newspaper headlines and TV broadcasts detail the aftershocks of leadership crises impacting almost every aspect of society: entertainment, business, education, government, religion, etc.
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“Uncommon Coaching” Fuels Discussion
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What is Uncommon Coaching and how does it vary from more traditional leadership coaching practiced today? How does coaching differ from therapy? How does the alignment approach in Uncommon Coaching relate to intentions, behaviors and motives?