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Doing your best
(April 17, 2003)
About 90% of workers go to work each day wanting to do their best. Unfortunately, many don’t know how to take their performance to the next level. I see this everyday in my coaching practice – sometimes it’s leadership skills or interpersonal skills that aren’t as good as they could be, or ineffective teamwork, or the individual not understanding his or her own strengths and opportunities.
Fortunately, I am also able to see the improvement that can be achieved through coaching, personal and interpersonal assessments, goal setting and action planning. And I am constantly building my tool kit to help my clients achieve their objectives.
• I recently attended the Birkman International Conference in Galveston, where I attended sessions on “Coaching Clients through the Adult Development Journey”, “The Team Fitness Quotient: Building Spiritual, Emotional, Physical & Intellectual Strength”, and “The Molecule: Integrating Birkman and Business”. For more on this conference, including my comments, go to http://www.birkman.com/Conf2003_PostConf.html
• I visited Austin to speak to the Society of Women Engineers on “The Transition to Management and Developing Leadership Skills”, a reprise of the presentation I made last year at the southwest region SWE conference at Rice University and to the Beaumont chapter. Other presentations I have that are appropriate for business group meetings (e.g. BNI, Rotary) are “Coaching: What It Is and How to Use It” and “Coaching Teams: Using a Coach Approach to Improving Group Performance”.
• I and 3 of my classmates in Corporate Coach University wrote a paper on “Balancing Task and Process for High Initiative Teams”. And we accomplished this while spanning all U.S. time zones and never meeting – a good virtual team exercise! Besides producing a useable tool, this experience reinforced that effective results can be accomplished without being face-to-face.
• Finally, I have located a good 360°-feedback tool to use with clients who are interested. It provides multi-rater feedback on communication, adaptability, task management, developing others, leadership, relationships, production and personal development.
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5 Year Anniversary! (December 22, 2005)
Year in Review (December 9, 2004)
New Directions (November 19, 2003)
Perfect Customers (August 18, 2003)
Doing your best (April 17, 2003)
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