How To Ask Powerful Questions As a leader within your organization, you spend a substantial amount of your time asking your team, clients, or even board members questions. Using better, powerful questions will help you bond with your team and further unlock your potential as a leader. Asking effective questions is an art. While it may seem like an easy read more
How An Executive Coach Can Make You More Successful No matter what growth stage your company is in, leadership challenges can overwhelm your daily task list — and an executive coach can help. Among your staff, you see frequent communication breakdowns. You and your co-founders feel out of sync, and maybe disagreements escalate more than usual. Mostly, you feel an overwhelming amount of stress. read more
5 Communication Strategies For Successful Relationships How you communicate with your team, investors, and clients sets the foundation for a booming business and successful relationships at work. Strong communication fosters successful relationships, as well. Some leaders naturally communicate better than others, but every professional can employ communication strategies to enhance their relationships. Improving communication with your team takes commitment, but the read more
How To Grow Into The Role Of CEO Evolving into a premiere executive can feel overwhelming. The good news? CEOs are not born; they can be made. With the right executive coaching, an open mindset, and commitment to scaling, you can grow into the role of CEO you want to be. Founders of emerging tech and startup companies start with a unique read more
How To Manage Investor Anxieties For a budding CEO, managing investor anxieties around their company’s growth and outlook is of the most important roles they have. As CEO, your day-to-day role includes managing your team and helping the business hit its goals, but you also need to manage up to your investors. When you manage up well, your investors read more
Why It Is So Lonely At The Top Being a CEO of an organization or a founder in a startup environment is tough. Oftentimes, it’s lonely because of its immense pressures which can make everything feel incredibly overwhelming. The light at the end of the tunnel often feels just like an oncoming train with endless challenges that need to be met. This pressure read more
Hiring, Training, & Scaling: Sustaining Company Culture While Working Remotely Over the past six months, the normal workflow has been disrupted by a change in environment. The typical office setting we were so used to turned remote, making it so we now input data and conduct meetings while staring at the dirty dishes in our home sinks. The stress of this switch to the virtual read more
Delivering Effective Feedback in the Workplace For our clients, finding the right words can be difficult. Especially in times of high-stress or while working in a fast-paced environment. This is why we are constantly receiving emails and phone calls about how to properly deliver feedback in the workplace. Delivering efficient feedback that streamlines improvements can be challenging. The reason for this read more
Developing Top-Notch Company Culture From The Ground Up Working on building a solid company culture is an essential topic amongst our Executive Coaching clients. And it’s not an easy task. Not only do we have to build a culture from the ground up, but it also needs to be maintained as we grow and progress, adding people to the team. Simultaneously, employees seek out read more
Prioritizing Emotional Intelligence In The Workplace The term “emotional intelligence” has become commonplace in our society when discussing relationships. Initially, romantic relationships come to mind, but emotional intelligence has earned its space in every kind of relationship there is. The workplace cannot escape the new-age acceptance and normality of prioritizing emotional intelligence for successful relationship communication. And, that’s because it has read more
The Difficult Journey To Accepting Accountability In the world of leadership, there are a lot of obstacles to overcome. Some obstacles are external such as shifts in the economy, difficult clients, and troubleshooting workplace dynamics. However, there are also internal obstacles that can trip us up from time to time. Both external and internal obstacles are common while serving as a read more
5 Ways Cultural Diversity Helps Teams Succeed More and more every day, we are discovering why it’s important to have a team of culturally diverse employees. A solid unit made up of assorted racial ethnicities and diversified backgrounds can turn an average company into one that is a top competitor in the market. A company that is open to hiring workers from read more
Making Decisions With Imperfect Information As leaders, ideally, decisions would be made smoothly and with great certainty. However, that’s not always the case. We don’t always get the luxury of perfect information. Oftentimes, we get a handful of ‘maybes’, ‘perhaps’, and ‘if this…then that’s,’ that we need to work with, in order to come to a verdict. But, how do read more
5 Leadership Mistakes To Avoid During Challenging Times As life continues on during challenging times, so does our work as leaders. Leaders are the real MVPs during this time, as their work is neverending. Individuals, communities, and teams are looking to their leaders for advice, empathy, distractions, and guidance during these uncertain times. Their job and spirit are essential. Now, more than ever, read more
Stay Emotionally Resilient With These 5 Stages Of Grief With all that has happened in the past few months, the global emotional landscape has been heightened. People everywhere are struggling to decipher, understand, and come to terms with their confusing feelings during the pandemic. Despite background, culture, status, gender, or race, these emotions are strongly shared. Although these feelings have the ability to make read more
7 Ways To Lead In Uncertain Times The pandemic has caused a drastic shift in the world. It is a transformation that has reached across the seas and to all parts of the globe causing panic and fear. Everything feels as if it’s moving at hyper-speed, the facts being thrown at us by the media feel scary and questionable, and the overall read more
How To Work Remotely and Lead Teams Effectively The world is an uncomfortable place right now. A global umbrella of fear, uncertainty, and anxiety has opened up above us. However, life must go on. It may not be our everyday normal, but it’s important that we try to make it as normal as possible as we all hunker-down together, but separate. One of read more
The Feminine Dimensions Of Leadership Since women have entered the business world, they have had to deal with negative connotations attached to their roles based on their gender. Although some of this is external bias, such as the gender pay-gap, other factors stem internally from the woman, herself. The internal factors women burden themselves with are closely related to the read more
Taking Toxins Out of Leadership Being a leader is not an easy business. There are a lot of ins and outs of the job. And being a leader doesn’t end when the clock strikes five. Being a leader is a lifestyle. So, inevitably toxins from your personal life, external forces, and internal conflict tend to seep in. These toxins can read more
Mastering Difficult Conversations The workplace is full of all sorts of challenges. There’s the overwhelming pressure to be an optimal leader for your team, the stress of last-minute projects, the necessity to ‘play nice’ with your co-workers and higher-ups (who don’t always make it easy), and the ongoing personal strive for perfection. But, on top of all of read more
