In our daily lives, we use personal biases, intuitions, and gut feelings to make our decisions. And that’s perfectly fine. They serve us well in many ways. However, when it comes to improving work performances, personal biases, intuitions, and gut feelings just don’t cut it. Data can improve your own, your team’s, and your organization’s […]
Optimize Employee Development with a Competency Framework
Employee development is a strategic tool for an organization’s continuing growth, productivity, and ability to retain valuable employees. Using a meaningful competency framework when developing employees will focus employees’ behavior on things that matter most to an organization and help drive success. This competency framework can provide a common way to harmonize, select, and develop […]
How to Get a Federal Job: Three Actionable Tips
When you think about the federal hiring process, you may wonder: What is the federal hiring process for a new job? Or a better one, if I already have a federal job? How long does it take to get a federal job? Why is the same federal job posted in so many ways? To answer […]
Effective Coaching Part 2: Moving Into Action
In our previous post, we introduced what we find to be an extremely effective coaching model—W.I. N. B.I.G. It involves six steps, three to build awareness, and three to move the coachee to action. To read in detail about building awareness, including applicable examples, check out part-one of our series on the W.I.N. B.I.G. formula. Today […]
Mastering The Language Of Leadership
When it comes to leadership, language is one of the most valuable tools you can use to empower people. Something as simple as taking a closer look at the words you use can make a drastic difference in your ability to increase employee engagement and performance. Many companies offer best employee engagement programs for this. […]
The W.I.N. B.I.G. Coaching Formula
Asking powerful questions is a necessity for a successful coaching conversation. However, asking someone a bunch of random questions does not necessarily mean that you are coaching them. A coaching conversation has three distinct components: Determining whether or not the situation requires coaching by using the Success Equation. Asking questions to create a dialogue that […]
Three Coaching Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
Anahita committed to coaching her employees two months ago and is already seeing positive results. Unfortunately, she’s struggling with one of her employees, Mathias. Despite her coaching, his engagement is still low, his productivity hasn’t improved, and his relationships with team members is lacking. Is she doing something wrong, or is he resistant to coaching? […]
To Be a Great Leader You Have to Listen
Two skills make up the backbone of coaching: listening and asking questions. Today we are going to focus on listening. Often leaders and managers under develop their listening skills. Why? For one, they aren’t taught how to truly listen. Second, leaders are expected to have all the answers. And third, it’s physiologically hard to listen. […]
Anne Loehr becomes one of the first Emotional Intelligence Certified Coaches (EICC) in the world
Anne Loehr becomes one of the first Emotional Intelligence Certified Coaches (EICC) in the world Posted: Feb 20, 2019 4:43 PM EST Increase The Effectiveness Of Your Leaders And Employees.Understanding EI is vital to develop, grow and maintain effective relationships; it also helps manage conflict resolution, lead and inspire others. Knowing the pivotal role EI plays […]
How Coaching Leads Your Business to Success
If you’re an executive leader, you don’t need anyone telling you how busy you are. You embody that demanding role every day, even on vacation. Yet sometimes it’s good to look at the facts—to get a clearer picture of where and how you spend your time. Not to mention where and how other executives spend […]
