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 / Covid-19 / Personal Coaching / Why coaching?

Need someone to listen?

In this stressful time of COVID-19, sometimes you need someone who knows how to listen; someone to help you draw on your own strengths to find the steps and strategies that will take you forward. In a nutshell, that’s what coaching is all about. The professional coaches at The Coaching Lens are offering free distance-coaching sessions by phone or Face Time to those experiencing anxiety, stress,…

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April 13, 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
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 / 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
Building Confidence / Coaching Skills / Performance Coaching / Personal Coaching / Potential / Why coaching?

Coaching for Confidence: How should we perceive Failure?

Whoever said failure was not an option was clearly not taking into account how often it happens and how important a part failure plays along the road to success. Take for example, our tale of two figure-skating siblings, both lacing up skates almost as soon as they could walk.  Candace was a natural, twirling and leaping gracefully around the ice and winning almost every time she…

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February 23, 2018