This issue came up during a confidence coaching session. Several employees went to their supervisor to report a problem with another employee (Jim). It seems he had been rude to a client (as reported by the client) AND he forgot to do a very important piece of his job – so important that the consequences could be lethal. Fortunately the only consequence in this case is Jim’s on the hot seat. Exactly what upset the employees?
Posts Tagged ‘women executives’
What Are You Upset About? Values-Driven Organizations
Friday, March 5th, 2010Here is a Method to Help You Analyze How YOU Help or Hurt your Success
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Ask yourself:
Do I Have a Trusted Advisor?
Do I take Advise from that Person?
One of the most important Truths I picked up in my years learning to be an executive coach came from an extremely successful coach with a multi-million dollar coaching practice filled with some of the most successful CEO’s and business leaders in the world.
Profoundly successful business leaders TAKE ADVICE from trusted advisors and implement that advice. They do not question the advice. They seek clarification and then they implement. After all, they hired that professional to advise them, to improve their performance, to guide them to greater success. The results are always greater satisfaction, success, and fulfillment; they have more time with their families, more money to spend, and more joy in their lives.
However, mid-level successful business leaders QUESTION ADVICE they garner from their trusted advisor. They challenge the wisdom of the wise person they have hired. They argue about the wisdom and they come up with reasons why the advice is wrong, why it won’t work in their case, and why they cannot do it.
What does that mean? The most successful people understand what they do not know and rely on experts to help them. The less successful people are unsure of themselves and DO NOT understand what they don’t know. They have to be in control and they have to be right. They think they know better than the expert. The results are their progress is slower, they don’t achieve their goals, and they work harder.
The Lesson: When you spend your time trying to re-invent the wheel, do it your own way, believe you always know best, you are impeding your own progress toward success. If you find yourself objecting to this thesis, then look at your own success and see if you’re objecting because I’ve touched a sore spot!
Next Steps: When it comes to your business, or, for that matter, your life, your dreams, your goals, even your problems, who do you trust to advise you? Do you take that advise? What can you do right now to improve your chances for success? How can your advisor help you take your business and life to the next level? Contact me today!
Correlation between women leaders and corporate success.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Did you know: “Research shows there is a strong correlation between how well top corporations develop and promote women leaders and how successful those corporations are in the marketplace.”
Mentoring and Coaching, Mentoring or Coaching, Mentoring vs. Coaching
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009I was talking with one of my clients today about mentoring and coaching. What I know to be true is that mentoring should be a time-limited, extremely professional WORKING relationship wherein the mentor guides, advises, and introduces the mentee in the ways of their world.
Oftentimes what happens in these relationships is that the mentee starts doing work for the mentor so it is critical that this relationship is time-limited because the mentee has to be pushed out of the next before resentment sets in.
Coaches are not mentors because their working relationship isn’t necessarily time limited and the focus is on the client’s entire life, not simply introductions and best practices for a particular career. Of course coaches and clients don’t share workloads either so there’s not the challenge of resentment.
Here is a wonderful summary of the amazing benefits of coaching.
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Here is a wonderful summary of the amazing benefits of mentoring.
Enjoy.
