Keith E. Webb's Blog, page 11

The Most Powerful Leverage for Change is Within You

Change is a funny thing. We all want change, but no one wantsto change. Real transformation happens when we move the change conversation from “he, she, and they,” to “me, myself, and I.” The most powerful leverage for change is within you.

I hear it coaching leaders when I ask them what theywould like to work on. I often hear answers like these:

I need help with someone I supervisewho is not performing well. I want to talk about how to help myteam to work together better when I’m traveling....

Share Your Experience Not Your Advice

People need your experience but don’t necessarily want your advice. If you want to be helpful and expand the conversation, share your experience and keep your advice to yourself.

What’s the difference between sharing ourexperience and our advice? Quite a lot.

Advice is directive – toward a solution. It tends to shut down discussion and force a judgement of your solution. Sharing your experience, without advice, can broaden a person’s critical thinking process.

The Problem With Advice

Advice i...

Fast Growth: How To Outrun A Cheetah

“Fast” and “Growth” are two words that appeal to me. I bet you’re interested in growing your business, ministry, bottom-line, or impact. If you’re like me, you want that to happen fast. I read a story of Kenyan villagers who outran several Cheetahs tocapture them alive. I learned 3 importantfast growth lessons from these villager’s tactics.

Faster than most supercars, a Cheetah can go from 0 to 60 mph in 3 seconds flat. A Cheetah’s acceleration and top speed of 70 mph makes it the fastest lan...

4 People Skills Millennials Need To Succeed

Millennials now make up the largest segment of the workforce. Millennials havetremendous technicalskills in all fields. It can come as ashock, however, to discoverthat people skills matter more than technicalskills in the workplace. Here are 4 people skills Millennials need to succeed.

Peopleskills can makethe difference betweenwho advances and who doesn’t. Take two programers, sales representatives, pastors, or graphic designers, each with similar technicalskills to do their jobs. But one ha...

How To Improve With Self-Reflection

If youwant to improve your skills youneed to see see three things clearly: what you’re trying to do, what you’re doing, and what youcan do to bridge the gap between them.If there’s an expert handy, she or he can give youfeedback on your performance. But what about the many times when no one sees youin action, like in coachingwhenit’s just client and coach?

It is possible to self-generate feedback on your performance through reflection. In this article I’ll share my 3-step process.

As a coach,...

What Gets Scheduled Gets Done

You’ve heard the saying, “What gets measured gets done.” In the corporate world, this might be a reliable axiom, but with solopeneurs – people running their own show – it doesn’t hold up. I’ve found what gets scheduled gets done. I’ll show you how to schedule the important things and control the ‘urgent’ things that waste your time.

I have a number of activities I measure that still don’tget done. Why not? Here are my big three reasons:

The daily grind of keeping the “machine” running. I’m f...

Best of 2015: My Top Leadership Articles of the Year

...and 3 Things I Learned Writing Them

If you’re interested in practical information on how to coach and how to develop as a leader you areat the right place! And you’re not alone. In 2015, the number of readers increased100% and subscribers 300% over the previous year.

In 2015, I published 49 articles at keithwebb.com. I learned a number of lessons from writing them that I’m applying in other areas of my leadership. I’ll share my 3 leadership lessons below.

First, here are the top 15 most-vi...

Stop Setting Goals! Set Your Mindset and Direction

I’ve stopped setting goals. It seems like when I set goals,they don’t have much bearing on my actual day-to-day work. I geta lot done bysetting my mindset and direction instead. Here’s how.

There’s a lot of talk about goals and goal-setting, especially at the beginning of a new year. I have a number of problems with goals, most of allthey don’t help me achieve more.

Goals are results, and thus not inyour control. Goals are ends, not thepath to reach them. Goals focus on actions and results,...

How to Coach Learning Out of Failure

No one likes to fail, but some failure isactually good for us. Alittle failure now and then will make us stronger. I’ll tell you why, and how to coach learningout of failure.

“Failure” is an emotionally-charged word. Discouragement is it’s constant companion. The word “failure” has a note of finality or completeness. Black or white. Bad or good.

Rarely is failure all or nothing. Without failure we wouldn’t learn and grow. Here are two reasons a little failure is a good thing:

Reason 1: Failur...

How to Coach The Person, Not The Problem

Greatcoaches focus on theperson – their internal way of being, mindset, and development – not their problem or goal. Most of us are quick to see external causes and solutions. Transformation resultsfrom coaching the person toward internal solutions. Here’s how.

There once was a caterpillar who was frustrated that he couldn’t runquickly.

“I need to be stronger if I’m going to go faster,” he thought. So, he started working out at the gym every morning. He hireda running coach, who told him to l...