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How To Ensure Learning From Your Example

Modeling preferred behavior is a powerful way of influencing the people around you. But your example isn’t enough. People usually don’t know why or how you’re doing what you’re doing unless you tell them. Here’s how to ensure learning from your example. 

Our workshop participants tell us that they learn a lot about interactive training by watching the way we lead our workshops. They see us model brevity of teaching, use many different interactive exercises, and facilitate skill practice durin...

How To Make Good Action Steps

Good action steps are critical to getting things done. You need to make action steps for yourself and you may need to coach other people to form theirs. Not all action steps are created equal. Here’s how to make good action steps. 

As a professional coach, I know my client will only make progress on their goals if they do something to implement the insights and ideas we generate through our coaching conversations. Near the end of every coaching conversation I help my clients to create 2 to 3...

Are You Too Busy To Be Successful?

Being busy has become a badge of honor. It’s viewed as a sign of working hard. But too often busy-ness is the result of focusing on the wrong outcomes. Are you too busy to be successful?

We’ve figured out that if we want to feel successful and have others think well of us, we will get busy. Working hard, long hours, with a busy schedule are surely the signs of a top performer, right?

In my work with leaders, they say their number one problem is time management. They just can’t get enough done...

How To Lead Great Video Conference Calls

Video conferencing can be an inexpensive way to gather people from a distance for productive meetings. All too often, however, it can be a frustrating waste of time due to poor planning, technical issues, and poor execution. Here are 10 ways to lead great video conference calls.

To have productive video conferences you must think like Steven Spielberg. Every scene in a Spielberg movie is planned for camera angle, sound, and lighting – all to tell the story well.

You also tell a story when you...

Unlock Every Conversation With Powerful Questions

Coaching skills are useful with everyone we meet, no matter if we have three minutes or an hour. Here’s how to use the five steps of The COACH Model® in daily conversations. 

We have conversations everyday. Most of them are not coaching conversations. They are brief interactions on-the-go. You can build stronger relationships and see people excel by incorporating elements of The COACH Model® into your everyday conversations. Use the steps individually, one or two at a time, to add depth to yo...

What You Need To Do To Delegate Effectively

“Just delegate it to someone on your team,” your well-meaning, but unhelpful, colleague advises you. If only it were that easy! Delegation is difficult because it’s a process, not an event. Here’s what you need to do to effectively delegate and get the results you’re looking for.

Delegation is a an essential leadership skill. Each stage of your leadership growth requires a different level of delegation. Each level brings new challenges and is progressively more difficult.

The 3 levels of dele...

How To Clean Up Attention Residue

When you check your email, read your messages, answer the phone, or have a quick conversation, your attention stays with that task even after you’ve moved onto the next. For a period of time, you’re unable to give the next task your full attention. This phenomena has been called “attention residue” and it’s hurting your thinking. Here’s how to clean up attention residue to get your focus back.

I’ve noticed how I can’t jump from answering emails to doing thinking work. My mind stays with the e...

从工作分心转向做事专注

This is a Chinese version of Moving From Distracted Working to Focused Results. 你的深度思考能力，策划能力，创新能力和变革能力是你最有价值的领导力资产。然而，在我们这个随时供应的世界里，你被连续不断的干扰所轰炸，以至于你从有意义的工作中分心。这里介绍如何从工作分心转向做事专注。

我们生活在一个让人分心的世界，有了电脑和智能手机，整个世界似乎可以立即访问我们: 电话，邮件，短信，社交媒体消息，从你的银行，信用卡，牙科来的通知––应有尽有。

现在我们都知道开车时用手机发短信会导致与合法饮酒的人相同的低反应率，现在有“开车分心 ”法来约束这类危险驾驶习惯。

在工作中，我们有多重任务并且感觉好像我们正在完成很多工作。当我们在写报告，查看邮件，看脸书，和再次回到报告之间来回跳跃时，我们可能没有与人碰撞，但是我们的头脑是分心的。我们做肤浅的和机械的工作，而不是做高价值的工作。

“多重任务”是工作分心的一种委婉说法。它正使你付出代价。

干扰的注意力成本

加州大学欧文分校教授Gloria Mark 研究在工作习惯中的...

Moving From Distracted Working To Focused Results

Your ability to think deeply, plan strategically, and create and innovate are your most valuable leadership assets. Yet, in our on-demand world, you are bombarded with constant interruptions that distract you from this meaningful work. Here’s how to move from distracted working to focused results. 

We live in a distracted world. With computers and smart phones it seems the whole world has instant access to us: phone calls, emails, texts, social media messages, notifications from your bank, cr...

How to Set Goals You Can Achieve

Setting goals is easy. Accomplishing them is difficult. Achieving your goals begins with creating goals that are achievable. Here are 5 ways to set goals that you can achieve. 

I dislike goal setting. Let’s face it, most goals just aren’t realistic. Setting pie-in-the-sky goals may be motivating for some, but for most of us we end up discouraged. I’ve found another way that works better for me.

How To Set Goals You Can Achieve

You already know a lot about setting goals. Here are 5 helpful “ch...