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AN AHA! LEADERSHIP MOMENT ABOUT AUTHENTICITY

DARREN'S STORY– AN AHA! LEADERSHIP MOMENT ABOUT AUTHENTICITY My friend, a professional hockey player, was driving us to a sporting event. At a certain point along the way, my friend spotted someone on the street – someone with all the appearance of a homeless vagrant.  My friend’s reaction surprised me. He carefully maneuvered through two lanes of traffic to pull to the curb, get out of…

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February 2, 2023
Aha! Leadership Moments / Building Confidence / Leadership / Leadership Skills / Potential / Trust Environment

Continuing the Tale of an old Irish Fisherman’s Sweater – Part Two of an Aha! Leadership Moment

In Part One, Ida (a coach at The Coaching Lens) tells the story of an old Irish Fisherman’s sweater – one of those heavy, cream coloured, cable wool sweaters that she knitted painstakingly by hand using the traditional Aran Diamond and Honeycomb stitches.  Here in Part Two, she shares what she learned about Leadership from that same Fisherman’s Knit Sweater. While that beautiful Fisherman’s Knit Sweater…

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April 8, 2019
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
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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
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