What Is A Life Coach? What follows is a typical conversation in response to the opening question, “What is a Life Coach?” A Typical Conversation New Friend, we’ll call him Joe: “So Creed, what do you do for a living?”…
How To Be A Good Salesman It is hard to find a more successful salesman and sales manager than Wayne Lewandowski. Wayne was a client that I spent many a Monday morning 6 AM meeting talking about how he was…
How To Hire Employees And Keep Them Harvard Business Review published, Employees Who Trust Their Managers Are More Likely to Trust Their CEOs. If you are responsible for hiring and retaining employees you should pay close attention. The article drew…
Executive Coaching What is executive coaching? “Professional Coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses, and organizations. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their…
Making a careful review of one’s past is the first step in the development of a Life Plan. The next step is to assess your current reality. The final step is to create a vision and strategy to achieve your…
It is a most peculiar thing to have a dream buried deep inside a person. Why is it such a struggle for some to bring their dreams to life? We stall because of the security of a job or…
Like Cousin Eddie, many in America wander aimlessly through life without a life plan. In Eddie’s case, no matter his situation he seemed happy. Don’t you wish you could be more like Cousin Eddie? What if you could have this…
In my last post I introduced four keys to effective leadership development. The willingness to try new approaches The motivation of the manager The safety the manager feels when trying new approaches, and Determining what success looks like Motivation Managers…
Back in my PepsiCo days, leadership development was applied using annual Individual Management Development Planning (IMD). Leadership skills were self-assessed and evaluated by one’s boss, and approved by his/her boss. Pepsi followed GE’s approach by terminating (the exact label was: “Move…
Have I discovered my ideal-self? What do I want for my life? Simple questions right? Wrong. I cannot begin to tell you how many people have expressed their disillusionment to the answer to these questions. Most people live incongruent with…