Category Archives: Leadership
Leading after the PCUSA General Assembly in Pittsburgh
General Assembly is over, the desk is overflowing with mail and the office voice mail is full of messages politely stating that the caller can wait until after G.A. but… The G.A. business now needs to be embedded in the … Continue reading
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
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
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
Coaching for “Wonder”
. . . we have to allow the moment of wonder to occur on its own and embrace it when it comes. Continue reading
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
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
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
Steve Denning uses story to the max! His new book is available soon at Amazon.
Many of my coaching clients are ministers and management in the religious “non profit” can be quite a challenge. For a chance to explore some creative thinking from Steve’s new book check out the video clip below. You can pre-order … Continue reading
Getting it Done – a look at a new book!
Stever Robbins has a new look at how to get things done – simple ideas are easy to do! Stever’s Nine steps are a life line when overwhelmed with “stuff”.. the first is indispensable for a BreakThrough kind of life. … Continue reading