Powerful Phrases You Need to Give Effective Feedback Choosing the right phrases, knowing how to deliver an important message, and giving empowering feedback are essential to leadership. Do you know how to do it? Here is a simple breakdown to elevate your communication skills. These are phrases you could use in your everyday dialogue with your team. Picking the right moment read more
Practical Guide to Master any Communication… (plus what not to say) Workplace communication is complex! Do you know how to master it? As a leadership coach, this is something I talk to my clients about almost daily. As a leader, you set the tone in the room and with it the code of conduct for your team. Knowing how to read the room, manage conflict, and read more
How to Build Trust on a Team Any relationship whether that is an intimate relationship, a friend, or a workspace needs trust. Being able to build trust is essential in any setting and relationship. You need trust between these people in order to have a well-functioning team. The strength of your team is defined by their ability to collaborate and trust each read more
Why We Need Male Allyship In Leadership If women want to successfully lead they depend on male leaders to help elevate their voices and be true allies. And that is not a bad thing. I know this is a complex topic and a challenge for all of us to successful lead together. Many of us, including me, are often still very complicit read more
Avoid Communication Breakdowns With These 5 Powerful Conversation Tools When embarking on a difficult conversation, you may fear how it will end up and how the other person will react could derail the progress you need to make. However, leading a powerful conversation with particular questions, and taking specific steps before talking, can set both you and your team up to have a conversation read more
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
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
Crisis Leadership 101 In the midst of a crisis, your first instinct may be to panic. This is a natural response to any sort of emergency situation whether it be present in your work life, home life, or social life. As humans, we experience dilemmas on a regular basis and throughout our lives. And as leaders, we experience 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
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
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
