Executive Coach | I have spent over 25 years in corporate life holding a variety of positions in operations management and human resources.
JOHN MCCABE
John works with typically manufactuing executives to clarify their goals and to devise effective means to achieve identified outcomes.
VALERIE BARONE
Executive Coach | I work with my clients to help them reach beyond perceived limitations to achieve new levels of performance. via Phone or In-Person
Find a Profesional Development Coach
Find a Profesional Development Coach to assist you in all aspects of your profesional development. Hundreds of Coaches Worldwide. Coaching In Person or Via Phone.
Who Inspires the Leader? by Alicia M. Rodriguez
Comments (0)
Walk through any Borders or Barnes and Nobles and you will find entire sections devoted to Leadership. The face of leadership now has as many identities as Sybil. Choose the Jack Welch style of leadership and Go with your Gut or choose Kevin Cashman’s Leadership from the Inside Out. You could become a Servant Leader and increase your Emotional Intelligence. You could follow the gospel of Rudolph Giuliani or live by the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. (I’m tired already!)
I spend considerable time helping CEO’s define Leadership for themselves so that they can articulate and define their role as CEO, not only for themselves but as an orientation for their behavior and thinking. Each person is different and each person comes to the position with both assets and liabilities. There does seem to be, however, a common element in all the writings on leadership. The same element appears in profiles of CEO’s who have successfully led their companies through both healthy and difficult times. That element is Inspiration.
The word “inspiration” comes from the Latin “spirare”, or to breathe, to live, to be inspired with. Words such as spirit, soul, animate, to breathe and inspire are all related. So why the Latin lesson?
An important leadership trait is the ability to inspire. Inspiration does not need to be loud and plastered on the front pages of Time magazine. Along with the competencies and traits of strategy, execution, vision, and courage, inspiration adds to the components of effective leadership. Look at how the ability to inspire others contributes to your effectiveness as a CEO. Can you breathe life into an organization that has become complacent? Are your employees driven to high performance by fear or are they animated by pride and a belief in a future that is compelling? Does the spirit of innovation and creativity dwell and grow in your company and its employees? As CEO you are responsible for inspiring others. And finally, who inspires you?
Continued...
Never Shout Fire in a Crowded Theater By ROBERT W. GUNN and BETSY RASKIN GULLICKSON from Comments (0) Good outcomes depend on clear thinking. Cultivate mental balance to keep panic at bay.
The quintessential corporate cog is unflappable. She flits from call to call, flips files easily from in- to out-box, has every answer at her fingertips, even makes sure there's sugar in the coffee room. Lily Tomlin portrays such an achiever in Nine To Five, the 1980 satire about women coping in business.
Relying on Human Goodness by Margaret J. Wheatley Comments (0)
We have a great need to rely on the fact of human goodness. Human goodness seems like an outrageous "fact." Everyday we are confronted with mounting evidence of the great harm we so easily do to one another. We are numbed by frequent genocide, ethnic hatred, and individual violence committed daily in the world. In self-protective groups, we terrorize each other with our hatred. Of the 240 or so nations in the world, nearly one-fourth of them are at war.
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. Many of us are more withdrawn and distrustful than ever. Yet this incessant display of what’s worst in us makes it essential that we believe in human goodness. Without that belief, there really is no hope. continued
“Delegating Decisions” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Bullickson
Three keys to delegating decisions in a way that accelerates group progress toward goals: tolerant restraint; focus on goals over tactics; positive tone. free
“Imagining Your Destiny” by Robert Gunn
How can you unleash creativity, a quality that seems elusive but is actually inborn? free
“Try Feedforward Instead of Feedback” By Marshall Goldsmith
Quality communication—between and among people at all levels and every department and division—is the glue that holds organizations together. free
“Clarity” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Gullickson
Resist the urge to kick into effort or control to maintain mental equilibrium. free
“When Not to Lead” Fast Company | by Mark Goulston and Kevin Gregson
In September of 1796, George Washington demonstrated that he knew something that entrepreneurs, founders and leaders of all types should know, but all too often fail to realize -- it was time. It was time to transition to the next level of stability and maturity as a government and as a nation. Good leaders know how and when to lead, great leaders also know how and when to leave. free
Sales Max
Do you want to improve the selection and development of your Sales Force! Sales Max is a great tool for selection and development--check it out.
INFOTOOL
Infotool is not JUST about surveys -It’s about fixing a definite, identifiable problem with specific tools. It’s about analysis and solution planning in minutes-not
SIX-FIGURE SPEAKING SECRETS: How to Build a Lucrative Career as a Speaker by Fran Harris
AUDIO: Inside this powerful system, you will learn how to maximize your speaking business for profits and much more.
ADD and ADHD Answer Book: The Top 275 Questions Parents Ask
BOOK: "As a parent with a special needs child, this book provides information to help with the day to day problems we face. " ~ J. M. Berry
A Directory of Advocacy and Support Groups for Youth with Emotional, Developmental and Behavioral Disorders
SOCIAL SERVICE: Organizations which provide advocacy and support services for this population who wish to be included in this list may contact the Office of Children's Affairs at the American Psychiatric Association (APA)
Coaching Product of the Month APRIL 2007
HEALTH / NUTRITION: The Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator uses the most current and carefully researched medical and scientific data in order to estimate how old you will live to be.
Who Inspires the Leader? 
Never Shout Fire in a Crowded Theater By ROBERT W. GUNN and BETSY RASKIN GULLICKSON from 
Relying on Human Goodness 
