One reason the holidays can be challenging is that for many, they are a HUGE departure from normal routines....
What makes the holiday season so challenging?
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The Coach’s Questions
The Golden Rule is Wrong
At some point in time you've, no doubt, learned the Golden Rule, or a version of it: DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE...
Your Career…Your Responsibility
Recently I was having coffee with a young man (well, young to me) whom I met a few years ago on a project. He sought...
Employee Engagement – What does that mean?!?
How many times have you heard the phrase, employee engagement? "We want our employees to be engaged." We’ve all heard...
Motivation – Throwing Away the Carrots and Sticks
I've managed people most of my career, and I've worked in teams all my life. If you had asked me early in my...
2014
Are You Preparing for an Even Better Year? Have you ever been looking forward to grabbing a coffee with a friend only...
Is perfection preventing progress?
Have you ever avoided doing something, because you figured you wouldn't be good at it? Is perfection preventing...
Are your conversations Typical, or Courageous?
What is a Courageous Conversation? We're about to launch a series of workshops at Padraig that help our clients have...
Are You Listening With the Intent to Respond?
What kind of listener are you? Have you ever been having a debate with a colleague, perhaps even a heated debate...
When is “good enough,” Good Enough?
I've always been a bit of a perfectionist. I beat myself up when I don't do things as well as I would like, and...
What if Your Team Members Were Volunteers?
In our last Coach's Questions blog we talked about "Changing Other People" and that changing how we react to other...
Changing Other People
Occasionally clients will tell me that some of the people in their lives frustrate them from time to time. They don't...