Category Archives: Coaching
Difficult Conversations
Difficult conversations confront us every day. Sometimes we wake up at night thinking about a conversation we need to have but put it off. MindTools web site gives some practical guidance to prepare – good ole role play! Check it … Continue reading
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2012 – Make it a Year of Gratitude
Happy New Year from Bob Anderson! New Years Eve – 2012 is but hours away now and it struck me that one way to approach the new year is using my own personal success strategy – Practicing Gratitude. There is … Continue reading
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Action Reflection on the New Year
January is named for the Roman two-faced god, Janus. She has one face looking to the past and the other to the future – Janus is the god of beginnings, endings and the transitions they create. Life is full of … Continue reading
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Whose Responsibility is it, Anyway?
The old “Pog0″ comic strip said it best, “we have bet the enemy and they is us”. For us to get out in front of a situation, a challenge, a temptation that will ultimately hurt us, we need to step … Continue reading
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Remember Wonder!
This Christmas season is again a fast paced, consumer driven, high pressure system that drives me a bit batty at times. It is so easy to lose the simple wonder of … well, wonder! Check out the video… Robin Ince … Continue reading
Grow and Attitude – of Gratitude
http://blog.kevineikenberry.com/leadership/everyone-wins-with-gratitude/
Squirrel Nutkin and the Coach in the Window
It’s Thanksgiving morning and I’m entranced with the wild birds fluttering at our feeders outside the kitchen window. They make a mess and Squirrel Nutkin picks up the scattershot of sunflower seeds below. Let me explain about Squirrel Nutkin. Squirrel … Continue reading
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Gratitude
Gratitude Every year around Thanksgiving time, we start hearing about the importance of gratitude – and it is important. But I was getting bored with the topic until I read this definition in Success Magazine: Gratitude helps us understand the … Continue reading
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New Year Revolutions
At the approach of every new year, I am inundated with people asking me my “New Year Resolutions”. I decided to leverage these encounters into learning opportunities by answering that I now call my “resolutions”, revolutions. Then I quip, “my … Continue reading
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Seek Criticism and Increase “Buy In”
I shouldn’t have any problem now – critics abound, and John Kotter (Buy In, Harvard Business School Press, 2010) writes that when we invite criticism, we are creating moments for innovation, new thinking, and a better plan. Maybe if I … Continue reading
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