Leadership Coaching, Inc.

https://www.leadershipcoachinginc.com/single-post/disappointing-others

Disappointing Others If you cannot disappoint people, you cannot lead them with clarity and honesty.It's not that you go around trying to disappoint people. It's that doing what makes sense, having the important conversation, and making the hard decision, will inevitably disappoint your boss, direct reports, adult child...

You have a clear idea about what needs to happen. So you tell your direct report—or adult child—what to do. They comply. And they never come to own the problem, or the solution. You get stuck in the "expert" role, while they obey and stagnate.

Using live coaching demonstrations, this retreat teaches a different approach: how to ask questions and hold conversations that stimulate maturity, confidence, and relationship wisdom in the people you lead. They own the problem. You coach them to generate their own way through it.

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https://www.leadershipcoachinginc.com/single-post/suffocation-and-isolation-in-families-and-businesses

Suffocation and Isolation in Families and Businesses Infants enter the world wrapped tightly in their mother's arms, nurse and bottle-feed their way into chubbiness, and spend their first years under vigilant eyes, protected from real and imagined dangers.An intense desire to protect and defend the helpless child does not end with infancy. It can get....

https://www.leadershipcoachinginc.com/single-post/who-cares-the-paradox-of-helpfulness

Who Cares? (The Paradox of Helpfulness) Here is a tension that most leaders never face: How is it possible to care too much and not enough, at the same time?It sounds contradictory. But it's one of the most common failure patterns in leadership, coaching, and parenting. Understanding it might be the most important thing a helper of any ki...

https://www.leadershipcoachinginc.com/single-post/leadership-and-self-awareness-the-company-you-keep

The Company You Keep False praise and harsh condemnationfollow leaders everywhere,part of it endemic to being in charge,part of it the ancient human needto create heroes and villains. Parents and presidents,entrepreneurs and executives,partners and principalsare pulled in every direction,the responsibilities relentless,...