I came across this great infographic the other day and it got me thinking about the steps to deal with difficult...
How to deal with difficult employees
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Mind FULL or Mindful
“Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?”―David Bader I’ve recently completed a course in how to...
Six ideas for successfully onboarding new employees
We're lucky people here at Padraig. We get to work closely with some of the most amazing leaders and leadership teams...
How to be an exceptional mentor
I sometimes get asked, “What’s the difference between a coach and a mentor?” My answer is usually something along the...
5 daily habits of effective leaders
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”– Will Durant paraphrasing Aristotle...
When your toughest conversations are with yourself
We’ve written a fair bit and worked with a lot of organizations around Essential Conversations — our workshop program...
How great leaders get beyond their to-do list
Remember that time when smartphones weren’t a thing? When we would go home at the end of the day and check our...
When organizations pay to coach their leaders – what’s the ROI of Executive Coaching?
What’s the real ROI of Executive Coaching? You know, we often get questions from senior leaders in organizations like…...
What exactly is executive coaching – and could it be right for you?
It’s pretty much the standard question in our culture when meeting someone for the first time – “So, what do you do?”...
Six simple shifts to tackle the bad kind of team conflict
In our last post, we talked about building good conflict on your team. That is, fostering conflict around ideas so...
Building conflict in the workplace – yep, building it
If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you’ll know we believe wholeheartedly in helping leadership teams to become...
Five ways to build team trust
Do the folks on your leadership team trust each other? Are you sure? Patrick Lencioni, in his phenomenally...