Aha! Leadership Moments / Building Confidence

The tale of an old Irish fisherman’s sweater – Part One of an Aha! Leadership Moment

Ida, a coach with The Coaching Lens, tells this Aha! Leadership Moment story in two parts.  It’s about an old Irish Fisherman’s sweater – one of those heavy, cream coloured, cable wool sweaters knitted painstakingly by hand using the traditional Aran Diamond and Honeycomb stitches. A few weeks ago, we were sorting through boxes of accumulated stuff, when I came across a fisherman’s sweater that I…

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March 30, 2019
Agile Leadership / Aha! Leadership Moments / Character Strengths / Coaching Skills / Leadership Skills / Learner Mindset / Personal Coaching / Potential / Trust Environment / Uncategorized / Why coaching?

Learners and Leaders and the Power of Potential

The Coaching Lens would like to share with you Coach Ida Kmiec’s personal story about Learners and Leaders and the Power of Potential. As professional coaches, we are committed to both sides of “potential”.  Our Personal Coaching can help individuals learn about their strengths, confidently articulate their competencies and be open to their own potential.  Our Leadership Coaching is designed to enhance the skills of those…

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February 23, 2019
Aha! Leadership Moments / Character Strengths / Coaching Skills / Feedback / Leadership / Leadership Skills / Values and Beliefs

Hire Spock…

We'd like to share Jeff's story, an Aha! Leadership Moment about what we can learn from our tv hours spent watching the Starship Enterprise boldly go where no man (or woman) has been before.  Even Captain Kirk could have used a little help honing his coaching skills out there in Space, the Final Frontier!   Jeff's Story -- An Aha! Leadership Moment inspired by Star Trek Most…

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January 30, 2019
Building Confidence / Holiday Season / Personal Coaching / Potential / Values and Beliefs

Why are New Year’s Resolutions so darn hard to keep?

It’s easy to make a laundry list of New Year’s Resolutions and many of us optimistically make the same ones every year.   So why does all that good intention and enthusiasm peter out and what can we do to keep it going? As professional coaches, we’re all about helping people to make significant change in their lives and to reach achievable goals so we’ve seen a…

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January 2, 2019
Coaching Skills / Holiday Season / Learner Mindset / Personal Coaching / Trust Environment / Values and Beliefs

Coaching Nuggets for the Holiday Season

With the craziness of the season upon us, we wanted to offer some coaching “nuggets” to keep handy for when you need a moment to reflect, restore and re-energize. Choose to be “in choice”.  It’s easy to become frazzled and overwhelmed by everything that HAS to be done for holiday events.  Take time out to think about what’s important to you.  Then, even if you are…

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December 5, 2018
Aha! Leadership Moments / Coaching Skills / Conflict Resolution / Customer Service / Leadership Skills

A connection between electronic voting and coaching?

We hope you'll find this election story both an amusing and a poignant summertime read. By Jill Pillon, Staff Writer for The Coaching Lens Earlier this Spring, I helped to train 300 poll officials to use our province's new electronic elections process, all of which had to be accomplished in the dizzying space of two and a half weeks.  It was exciting, learning firsthand just how…

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July 16, 2018