I recently went hiking for a few days in beautiful western Canada. Right before our small group headed out on our first remote trail, our experienced guide gave us a crash course on what to do in case we crossed paths with a bear. Yes, a bear! City girl that I am, I listened very closely to what she had to say …
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If thereâs one thing thatâs common across the leaders I coach, itâs this: theyâre tired. So, itâs not surprising that at some point, the topic comes up during our coaching meetings — usually as a result of my client having lost their cool with someone, feeling unmotivated or even worse, running their body ragged to the point of health issues. But what almost always follows my clientâs realization that they are tired is the self-resignation that they canât do anything about it.
In this Coaching Real Leaders newsletter, Muriel explores what wisdom means in the context of leadership. And share some simple steps I picked up from Jud Brewer, MD, PhD on how to cultivate it.
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Grief of any sort can be hard enough â much less when itâs team-wide or company-wide — The kind of grief that can come from layoffs or other organizational changes. How do we process it as a team? And then thereâs personal grief too â the kind that doesnât stay home when you show up at work. Learning how to hold grief (rather than âmove through or past itâ) can be very helpful, not only to ourselves but to those we lead. In this issue of her Coaching Real Leaders newsletter, Muriel shares some of what she has learned through her own lived experiences and with her coaching clients.
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Everyone knows that the ability to give feedback is critical to being an effective leader and manager. And yet, many struggle with it no matter how many trainings theyâve been to or articles theyâve read. In her latest newsletter “Coaching Real Leaders: Lessons Learned from Coaching Real Leaders,” Muriel Wilkins continues the discussion of ways to give effective feedback to team members.
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Everyone knows that the ability to give feedback is critical to being an effective leader and manager. And yet, many struggle with it no matter how many trainings theyâve been to or articles theyâve read. In her latest newsletter “Coaching Real Leaders: Lessons Learned from Coaching Real Leaders,” Muriel Wilkins discusses ways to give effective feedback to team members.
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âI feel like I canât ever say the right thing anymore.â Sound familiar? As organizations increasingly focus on diversity, equity and inclusion, this is a topic that more of our executive coaching clients are bringing up in coaching conversations than ever before. In this issue of Muriel’s Coaching Real Leaders newsletter, she shares her experience coaching clients when this issue does come up for them and they turn to her for a solution.
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If youâre like most of my clients, you entered the new year with some goals. Thereâs so much out there about how to set goals. To be honest, for most people I know (including myself), the problem is not in setting goals. Itâs in achieving them once theyâre set. As Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry aptly shared âA dream without plan is just a wish.â You see –the real juice in goals is in the execution. And thatâs where most fall short. Now, as an executive coach, this is my bread and butter. If I can help my clients figure out what they want (the goal), then I can help them get there (the follow through). So, I want to share with you some tips to help you in your follow through and achieve the goals youâve set out for yourself for 2023.
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So here we are at the end of the year and whatâs most top of mind for a lot of my coaching clients is, wait for itâŠ. performance reviews! Participating in this annual feedback ritual (which IMHO needs to be totally revamped but thatâs a post for another time) can be quite stressful for many especially if you are on the receiving end. To that end, I want to share some suggestions on how you can approach receiving feedback with a little more ease. There are four steps I offer my clients when they are on edge going into their performance reviews.
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Allow me to get a little personal here. At the risk of sounding curmudgeonly, I have serious issues with the upcoming American holiday thatâs called âThanksgivingâ (Ăine Cain and Joey Hadden do a great job explaining why in this Insider article: https://www.insider.com/history-of-thanksgiving-2017-11). Nevertheless, in a few days, Iâll take my kids to visit with my extended family as they enjoy the day of feasting and fellowshipping. And while Iâm typically a grateful person (just not on this particular day), it got me thinking — how do we give thanks when we reallydonât feel like it? Not just at celebrations where the whole point is to give thanks but in everyday moments especially at work.
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