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
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
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
Building Confidence / Coaching Skills / Feedback / Performance Coaching / Personal Coaching / Potential / Uncategorized / Why coaching?

Coaching for Confidence: Whose journey is it?

We’ve all seen the caricature of the out-of-control parent at their child’s hockey, soccer or baseball game, yelling instructions and criticism, hurling invective at the ref and generally making the entire experience unpleasant for everyone around them.   If the role of parents and coaches is to unleash potential and remove interference for their child to deliver their best performance, what possesses them to get (pardon the…

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February 24, 2018