Posts Tagged ‘facilitation’
How to Shut Screaming Mimi Up
May 20, 2010 | 
Author Article #2 in the series “The Dirty Dozen of Bad Bosses”
Screaming Mimi costs the company more than she’s worth. She’s needy, fickle, and stubborn, and her peers and subordinates never know when she’s going to throw a tantrum… and she’s still your boss.
As tempting and as justified as you may feel to assume the victim role in this story, it puts you in a position of powerlessness, and you lose the opportunity to grow. Today, we’re going to take a more active and empowering approach.
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Bad Bosses… We’re Calling You Out By Name!
I’ve been talking about the topic of bad bosses on my segment of the CelebrityU Radio/TV show, and I am also going to feature it on the blog as a series. If you’d like to see/hear part of this segment, check it out here:
Carolann talking about bad bosses on CelebrityU Radio/TV
Posted in Bad Bosses | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, Corporate Coach, DFW, Executive Coaching, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, vivid epiphany | 1 Comment »
Man (or Woman) Up! Curing the Epidemic of Weak Leadership
This morning I was attending the Young Women Executives Forum at the Tower Club, and today’s topic was Conflict Management. This is a topic that I hit with my coaching clients 100% of the time.
We all have a default mode for dealing with conflict. Some people use the “my way or the highway” approach. Others are passive-aggressive. Others stuff their point of view down like a philly cheesesteak, and what comes back up when they get a overstuffed ain’t pretty.
Posted in Inspired Middle Management, Leadership | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, conflict management, Corporate Coach, DFW, Executive Coach, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Growth Coach, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership Coach, Legacy Leadership, managewhich, Neuroleadership, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
You Don’t Have to Leave the Cubicle
There’s been a lot of hype lately around escaping the cubicle. It isn’t for everyone. For many, it isn’t realistic considering their current resources, and for some people, going out on their own would be downright irresponsible.
Many of the people who call me looking for coaching services are miserable in their jobs, have been for a while. They’re fed up and burned out. They want to quit.
Posted in Career Management | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, Corporate Coach, DFW, Executive Coach, Executive Coaching, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, managewich, Middle Management, middle manager, Neuroleadership, vivid epiphany | 1 Comment »
How Inimitable Leadership Can Save the Day
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.
Posted in Inspired Workplace | 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 | No Comments »
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
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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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What Got You Here May Not Get You There
Photo By Dani
When met with what seems to be a familiar situation, humans behave based on habit. The brain is designed to operate based on patterns and filters, so it’s very quick to assess “Woah! something’s going on here” vs. “Oh, OK” and respond accordingly.
By the way, it’s also the same mechanism that makes Bob’s name easier to remember than Atmajyoti’s, if you’re not Indian.
Posted in Brain-based Coaching | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, conflict management, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Leadership Coach, Legacy Leadership, Middle Management, middle manager, Neuroleadership, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
