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How To Practice Leadership Rest (or is it an oxymoron?)
If there’s one thing that’s common across the leaders I coach, it’s this: they’re tired. So, it’s 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 client’s realization that they are tired is the self-resignation that they can’t do anything about it.
How to Cultivate Leadership Wisdom (hint: it’s not the same as knowledge)
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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Contextualizing Coaching | Coaches Rising Podcast with Muriel Wilkins
In this conversation, executive coach Muriel Wilkins and podcast host Joel Monk, explore the importance of contextualizing coaching, the pitfalls of coaching within a vacuum, growing as a coach, stakeholder-leader relationships, awareness of our biases and detaching from outcomes.
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Companies can’t do layoffs right because they’re trying to act like ‘cool parents’
The harshness of recent layoffs suggests that any managerial empathy workers gained during the depths of the pandemic was short-lived. Muriel Wilkins offers her thoughts on how to be a compassionate leader through the changes.
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How To Actually Achieve Your Goals (rather than just set them & forget them)
If you’re like most of my clients, you entered the new year with some goals. There’s 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. It’s in achieving them once they’re set. As Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry aptly shared “A dream without plan is just a wish.” You see –the real juice in goals is in the execution. And that’s 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 you’ve set out for yourself for 2023.
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