As a leadership coach, I see that most people have different personas in their personal and professional lives. Leaders often think they need to be someone other than themselves to meet the expectations of their role.
What they don’t realize is that doing so sets them up to experience greater challenges and frustrations. It can make their job more stressful
The Kolbe System™ is a proven, scientific approach that shows us how we are born to take action and how to leverage those instincts to optimize our potential. What it measures is different than “IQ” and “personality”.
Knowing about Kolbe and being able to quickly understand my clients’ natural problem-solving patterns has made me a more effective coach. It helps
In my 30 years as an Executive Leadership Coach, I have seen that there are invariably two core areas to address to effectively get leaders to grow in their roles: increasing their self-awareness and expanding their comfort zone. Both can be challenging but they build on each other to deliver amazing transformation that impacts the leaders’ teams as
Many senior leaders report feeling overwhelmed. They are stretched in too many ways and directions. Their days have become too long and exhausting. Meetings fill up their working hours to the point they must catch up on other work in the evenings. This is especially overwhelming for leaders who are also balancing their kids’ activities and schoolwork.
So, what can
Are you free to be yourself in all areas of your life? Being free can be invigorating and fulfilling.
What if you finally make your life and work world a better fit for you, without having to limit yourself to what others expect of you?
My goal as a coach is for everyone to have the freedom to be themselves
Here we are again, a new calendar year in front of us. For many, it is a clean slate to reinvent themselves and their worlds. How about you?
What if this became the year you finally make your life and work world a better fit for you, without having to limit yourself to what others expect of you?
My goal
Skills and experience are usually the elements we focus on when we try to hire the right person for a job. Yet, there are other crucial considerations that we often overlook:
When you struggle to collaborate with your colleagues or they don’t deliver the work the way you’d expect them to, it’s easy to make assumptions about their behavior or abilities. This can escalate tension and frustration.
Through a Kolbe Assessment, you can understand and appreciate the way each person operates, to then resolve collaboration problems and optimize how you
Having great talent on your team doesn’t do much unless you know how to make the most of everyone’s innate abilities and understand the dynamics they create when working together. If the team members don’t have a sense of their collective synergies (or lack thereof), they will work against each other, causing team conflicts and misunderstandings that can lead to
When working with clients, quickly understanding how they make decisions and what they need to take action can be a real asset. If we operate in a manner that is different from how they are naturally predisposed to approach problems and situations, we can cause pushback and frustration. Even more, they might find it overwhelming to collaborate with us.
Jamie