[Guest blogger Nina Peterson, NCC, ACC is the COO and a partner at Wisdom Works. In her last blog, she explored boundary-spanning leadership.]
With ten days until 2010 becomes history, I invite you to consider how you are ending …
[Guest blogger Nikki Carpenter is an ICF-certified professional coach at Wisdom Works. Highly active in the development of healthcare leaders since 1992 Nikki has taught, facilitated, and coached both not-for-profit and for-profit sectors. She earned a master’s in applied communication …
[Guest blogger Nina Peterson is the COO and a partner at Wisdom Works. In her last blog, she provided four ways to “make the turn” when plans don’t pan out.]
Back in the ’90s, corporations were falling all over …
“Wow! This first step looks like a doozie.” With that thought duly noted by my mind, it seemed a good moment to pause. From four stories up, standing precariously near the edge of the tiny platform, I took a deep …
It was our seventh one-to-one coaching conversation. We’d been meeting twice a month for a while now, roughly two hours each time. This executive (an early-40s high achiever I’ll call James) seemed acutely alert to the warning signs about the …
Whenever I was sick as a kid, my step-father would buy me a comic book to cheer me up. Usually, it was an Archie Comic; my favorite character (which I kept as a closely-guarded secret) was the kind-hearted, tomboyish Betty …
You’ve seen that anxious businessperson waiting for the elevator, eager to get home after a long day at work. He or she presses the button over and over again as if it will speed up the doors. Perhaps that person …
Last year, I committed to myself that when springtime came, I would step up my social responsibility at home. Among other things, this meant buying a composting bin: one of those contraptions to turn last nights’ leftovers into fertile nourishment …
I was sitting in the conference room, minding my own business, waiting for the CEO to arrive. He was a new client I’d yet to meet face-to-face, although our conversations by phone had been pleasant. Before he appeared in the …
[Guest blogger Jane Cocking, MCC, is a Principal at Wisdom Works. In her last post she shared valuable leadership lessons from the playground.]
It was two days of heartbreak and bloodshed. And I’m sorry to say that I’m …
