I was reading a tip sheet from our website on Unhealthy Partnerships and was thinking more about why it’s so hard for partnerships to be healthy and successful. It comes down to one thing: selfishness Selfish is defined as: “Lacking consideration…
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Good Partnership Isn’t Selfish
Posted in Leadership Coaching, Organizational Development, Personal Leadership Tagged with: expectations, healthy partnerships, partnerships, questions, relationship, selfish
Honoring Your Strategic Partners
Strategic partnerships are essential for most organizations. We’ve learned that we don’t have to know how to do everything, but we do need to know how to develop partnerships with people and organizations that can accomplish things that we can’t.…
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Basic Coaching Habit #8: Be Engaged
34 Leaders from 10 countries joined together for four days and developed these “Basic Coaching Habits for anyone asked to be a “coach”. When coaching someone, we must: #8) Be Engaged. When we are with the other person, we…
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Be an “ASKER”
I remember sitting around a large table with a group of people. My wife and I were the invited guests, we were in a noisy restaurant, and after our meal, we were sitting and listening to a lot of people…
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The Art of Caring
It takes “the art of caring” to mentor someone! Care can be defined as: #1) Serious attention; solicitude; heed; caution: she devotes great care to her work The act of caring takes commitment and devotion. You can’t just care when…
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Be Aware of the Power of Influence
Most of us have not been formally mentored. We have not had a great, successful leader take us under their wing and teach us to lead. They have not gone step by step through the various situations we will encounter…
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Mentoring 101
I was recently sitting in a leadership training course in South Africa and a young leader asked me, “What does it really look like to have a mentor?” He didn’t ask me what it meant to “be” a mentor, he…
Do you value COMMUNITY?
I’m reminded today of the story in Mark 2 when Jesus heals the paralytic man that was brought to him to be healed. This guys friends couldn’t get in the front door, so they climbed up on the roof, cut…
