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Short, practical reads on leadership, coaching, team coaching and coaching supervision, including ideas from my books. Each one comes with something you can try this week.
The Endless Horizon: Why Good Enough Never Arrives
It is 11:40 on a Thursday night. The board deck went out at six. It was good. Everyone said so. And a COO I'll [...]
Eleven Minutes: What Actually Happens in Your Body During a Panic Attack
Adapted from The Anatomy of Panic: what your body is doing during a panic attack, why it feels so frightening, and why it always ends.
The Sleepy Supervisor: How a Client’s Pattern Travels Into Supervision
Adapted from Schemas in Coaching Supervision: parallel process through a schema lens, told through the story of Grace, Victor and a supervisor who felt strangely numb.
Why You Still Can’t Delegate (It Isn’t a Skills Problem)
Adapted from Schemas in Leadership: why delegation fails even after the training, what letting go really threatens, and how to let go in stages.
The Impostor’s Shadow: Why Success Never Feels Like Enough
Adapted from Schemas in Leadership: why impostor feelings are immune to success, how they show up at work, and three practices that help.
The Hidden Architecture of Leadership: Five Questions to Find the Pattern Running You
From the ideas in Schemas in Leadership: how schemas and modes show up at work, and five questions to spot the pattern running your leadership.
The Room Is More Crowded Than It Looks: Why Every Coach Needs Supervision
Every coaching session has more people in it than it seems. How supervision helps coaches notice who else is in the room.
Resistance Is Information: What Pushback Is Trying to Tell You
Resistance to change is almost always information. What it is usually trying to say, and four ways leaders can work with it.
Who Coaches the Team Coach? A Plain-English Guide to Team Coaching Supervision
What team coaching supervision is, why team coaches need it and what actually happens in a session, including the HexHelix model.
The Promotion Nobody Explains: Manager to Director to VP
The jump to director or VP is a different job, not a bigger one. What decision-makers look for, and how to show them early.
The Expert’s Dilemma: Why Being the Smartest Person in the Room Stops Working
You were promoted for being brilliant at the work. Here is why that stops working when you lead, and how to make the shift.
How to Give Feedback to Someone More Senior Than You (Without Losing Sleep)
Most senior leaders are starved of honest feedback. Five practical moves for giving it upward, clearly and respectfully.