Photo Inquiry Friday: How Do You Listen?

“When someone else is talking about what they learned and how they can apply it. SHUT UP! and let them speak. Your solution and ideas mean NOTHING to the person speaking. We all have to apply lessons through our own context. Your context means nothing to me.”

Leadership Coaching to Flourish Into Capacity

Create-Learning Leadership Coaching makes you a better leader. The kind of leader that people point to as the reason to continue great work. The kind of leader that you are proud to be.

Managing Across Generations: Leadership Coaching Success Story

At the conclusion of the Exponent Coaching Relationship with Sharon:

Interviews and observations showed increased collaboration amongst the various departments and age groups of the agency. The younger staff felt heard and respected, the mature staff felt proud to share their experience and learn new techniques and ideas.

Recent Promotion to Management: Leadership Success Case Study

Anthony, at 30, was promoted to Director of Finance. He had been chosen because he had the ability to fill the role and his level of thinking and values matched what was needed for success in the position. Prior to the promotion, he had served as a team leader of purchasing.

6 months later, after several of his staff had approached the VP of Finance with their concerns, I was brought in to help Anthony meet these challenges:

Anthony was showing favoritism to his friends, with whom he used to work and now was managing
He was doing too much of the work that could be delegated
He was not creating plans to accomplish goals assigned to him by the Vice President of Finance
He was not adding any ideas to discussions during management meetings