Posts Tagged ‘Corporate Coach’
How Inimitable Leadership Can Save the Day
March 9, 2010 | 
Author Last week, I was reading an article on Gallup about how President and CEO Douglas R. Conant’s plan to revitalize Campbell’s Soup included a decade-long effort to improve employee engagement. To give you some background, Conent took over at Cambell’s about 9 years ago. Things weren’t going well. Campbell’s had one of the lowest engagement scores of any Fortune 500 ever.
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Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, Corporate Coach, DFW, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Leadership Coach, Legacy Leadership, managewhich, Middle Management, middle manager, Middle Managers, Neuroleadership, vivid epiphany | 
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Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life (Part 1)
This is the first installment of my effort to integrate the 64 Success Principles from Jack Canfield’s book of the same name.
Last week, I went to a one day live workshop with Jack Canfield, and was considering, along with the accountability partner he recommended and the mastermind group that frankly I’m not in the mood to participate in, how I could execute on the principles better. I very much like the content, and the success is in the action, not in the knowledge.
Posted in Living the Success Principles | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, Corporate Coach, DFW, Executive Coach, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Leadership Coach, Legacy Leadership, managewhich, Middle Management, Neuroleadership, vivid epiphany | 1 Comment »
Not Buying the Solution, Not Participating in the Game
We’ve become a society of consumers, people who participate little, if at all, in the creation of what we use. There is a someone else who does almost everything for us, and that’s become a habit for us. Think that impacts engagement at work? I do.
Think about it. Who changes their oil anymore? If I could even locate the oil pan at this point, I don’t have the wrench that would get the oil filter off the car. And, it would get my nails all funky, and who wants a coach with funky nails? (I know, an excuse for everything.)
Posted in Life Coaching | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Carolann Jacobs, Corporate Coach, DFW, Executive Coach, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, managewhich, Middle Management, Neuroleadership, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
Life & Death Communications
Guys,
Here’s an exceptional article about communication, collaboration and the importance of setting the right tone: http://gmj.gallup.com/content/125291/Collaborating-Means-Communicating.aspx
Enjoy!
Be Your Best You Today,
Carolann
Posted in Resources | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, Corporate Coach, DFW, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Leadership Coach, Legacy Leadership, Life Coach, managewhich, Middle Management, middle manager, Neuroleadership, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
Creating an Inspired Workplace: Putting Everyone on the In-Team
Ever had that experience in which you brought up a really good idea and the group or leader ignored it, only to have someone else bring up that exact same idea and the group met it with excitement?
Turns out, new research has shown that the brain hears things differently based on whether the person saying them is in the “in” group” or the “out” group.
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Managewhich Tip: Getting in Front of Change Through Leadership
“The enemy to real change is lip service” ~Peter Block
This is never more true than in a low trust organization. How many times have you been in meetings where heads nod in agreement only to have nothing done? It’s insidious because we think the group is on board when they aren’t.
We can work with opposition and disagreement. Honesty lets us know where we stand and know where we may need to negotiate, whereas, we often miss lip service.
Posted in Change Leadership | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, Corporate Coach, DFW, Executive Coach, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, Middle Management, middle manager, Neuroleadership, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
Managewhich Tip: Process-Focus Ain’t a Bad Thing
Photo by Nur Hussein - find the pic on Flickr, the story is hilarious!
We hear a lot about being results-focused and results-driven. Results are important, and somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of the importance of the journey.
Case and point. In 1959, Cuba had an illiteracy rate of 23%. Post Castro revolution, in 1961, it was reduced to 4%. Let’s just say, this wasn’t the kindest of processes, and yet, if the focus was on the result to wipe out illiteracy, they were astoundingly successful.
Posted in Inspired Middle Management | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, Corporate Coach, DFW, Executive Coach, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, Life Coach, managewich, Middle Management, middle manager, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, resolutions, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
So How are Those Resolutions Going?
On the Wagon? Photo by Craig
So, we’re about halfway through January, and even though I suggested that resolutions are a waste of time, I bet some of you made them anyway. How’s it going?
For those of you who are on track, congratulations!
For those of you who’ve already broken down, how about trying something different this year.
Posted in Life Coaching | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, Corporate Coach, DFW, Executive Coach, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, Life Coach, managewich, Middle Management, middle manager, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, resolutions, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
Managewhich Tip: New Rule for Productivity?
Photo by Delos
What if, like gasoline, your brain power and attention were a limited resource? And that once your attention tank was empty, your thinking ran on fumes?
Turns out, the latest brain studies indicate that this is indeed the case. Our attention is in limited supply, and we work in ways that squander it.
Posted in Brain-based Coaching | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, Corporate Coach, DFW, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, Life Coaching, managewich, Middle Management, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
Managewhich Tips: What is “Too Busy” Saying About You?
We’re all busy. And, being busy in our culture can be a badge of honor. Busy = Important.
“Busy” is also where Managewhiches get tripped up.
Case Study 1:
Jennifer was on the receiving end of some “unpleasant” news. Her company was cutting back on hours for its hourly employees and reorganizing some of its work, and everyone was informed that “changes were coming” via mass email. Jennifer’s hours were cut in half (as she discovered by looking in the system for her schedule) and some of her duties were reassigned (as she discovered in an unfortunate incident when she showed up to work and someone else was doing her job).
Posted in Inspired Middle Management | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, Corporate Coach, DFW, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Leadership Coach, managewich, Middle Management, Middle Managers, Neuroleadership, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
