Agile Leadership / Coaching Skills / Covid-19 / Leadership / Leadership Skills / Trust Environment / Why coaching?

What is happening to TRUST?!

By Mary Ann Tucker As you all know, great leadership is a passion for me. This passion is what propelled me into coaching, first to improve my own skills as a leader and now as a Leadership Coach to assist others in being the best leader they can be. After watching a CBC feature story on the changing landscape of work environments, I found myself increasingly…

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September 21, 2020
Character Strengths / Leadership / Leadership Skills / Personal Coaching / Trust Environment / Why coaching?

Humility versus Narcissism

Is social media the cause of the staggering rise of narcissism in our world or does it simply show us more of it?   Either way, we don’t have to emulate the narcissists around us.  We have the right to choose humility and in doing so, demonstrate the most effective kind of leadership in our workplace, in our community and in our home-life. The gift of humility…

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February 10, 2020
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 / 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 / Leadership / Personal Coaching / Trust Environment / Values and Beliefs

How important is integrity?

Sometimes it's a negative Aha! Leadership Moment that we take most to heart and it can influence our behaviour more deeply than years of positive role modelling. Janet's story highlights the importance of knowing who we are at our core and the values that we cannot allow others to dishonour.   The Coaching Lens Janet's Story - An Aha! Leadership Moment about Integrity and Trust When asked…

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October 29, 2017
Aha! Leadership Moments / Conflict in the Workplace / Conflict Resolution / Leadership / Leadership Skills / Uncategorized / Values and Beliefs

An Aha! moment about Beliefs and Assumptions

As a leader, I have a firm belief that I should never ask anyone to do something that I would not be prepared to do myself.  So one Saturday when I had asked Anna, one of my team members, to come in to work on something with a tight deadline, I decided that I would go in as well to give her a hand. Imagine my…

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January 13, 2017