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My recent group coaching sessions uncovered two aversions to conflict themes. One, most people avoid conflict for fear of hurting a person’s feelings and two, fear of disrupting the harmony.  However, people’s feelings are often hurt more by prolonging honest feedback and artificial harmony is just that, artificial!  It comes down to how…

Leadership Coaching can be mysterious and at the same time obvious.  I am always grateful when I work with clients who appear to have a blind spot in one area and immense passion in something else but can connect the two. When we uncover this, the client can start to visualize. Let’s look at…

Exploring Your Unproductive Stories in Group Coaching? Group coaching is an intimate conversational space, focused on deepening awareness around key issues, making progress in areas most important to each individual while leveraging the insights of others in the group.   It is a powerful way to open communication between groups often from different departments…

Will Your Personal Development Goal Pass the Test? If you are thinking of setting a personal self-development goal and wonder if it’s going to give you the stretch you are looking for, here’s a few hints: A worthy goal (or you might call it an aspiration) is thrilling, important and daunting. Thrilling because it…