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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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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Elizabeth’s Story: The Heart of Feedback

Re-Framing the Heart of Feedback Can you think of a time when your self-esteem smarted from negative feedback or maybe from well-intentioned but hurtful feedback? Given an option, most of us would likely skip the experience altogether. As a leader, we sometimes put off giving feedback, for fear of doing it wrong. The result often means no feedback at all, and in the pain-filled words of…

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Introducing Life Lessons from the Coaching Lens

In this series of postings, the Coaching Lens team would like to share some learning gained in our lifelong journey as coaches. Life lessons are best heard when told as stories and we hope you'll enjoy both the tales that we tell and what we can unpack from them. Seeing the world through a "coaching lens" helps raise our awareness of who we are and who we…

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