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I love the coaching approach because it tends to look optimistically at the future. In regular life, we all fall into traps of being depressed about how messed up things are, and how impossible it will be to surmount the obstacles in front of us.
What you have to realize is that it’s mostly a story in your head. Sure, there are barriers and challenges ahead. But that’s been true since the day you were born.
And you overcame most of them, right?
Read the rest of this entry »When we’re faced with a huge challenge, it’s time for everyone to get busy and help out. We know we have hard work to do, but doing it together makes things go easier.
There’s a very special energy in aligning as a group!
And it works best when everybody jumps in, from the boss to the bottle washer. It’s a very democratic endeavor that way.
Read the rest of this entry »When I try to explain to people why coaching can be so powerful, I often include the fact that I try to nurture a sense of optimism, lightness, even humor.
Now, our work is often about serious things and serious situations. Business can be tough most of the time. But I find that the weight of this can easily push my clients to feeling stuck.
I don’t see any good alternatives. I’m out of ideas. There are so many negative effects of any action I might take.
Read the rest of this entry »For some of us, things are slowing down. For others, it’s a crazy time of year. Hopefully you’ll have a chance for things to settle, perhaps in January or after April 15th or during next summer.
The point is that we all need a break from the intensity of work.
And not just the weekends. Those are very necessary and vital, but aren’t sufficient. What we need is the chance to REALLY check out of our work. For a week or two or three.
Read the rest of this entry »People who run charities or other volunteer organizations have a big advantage over those of us in the for-profit sector: They know they have to tap peoples’ energy in a different way.
Because, of course, they can’t pay those volunteers. Well, maybe with a bit of beer and pizza, but that’s about it.
Over the course of my life, I’ve volunteered my time and energy in many places. And I’ve led teams of volunteers myself. Am I crazy?
Read the rest of this entry »This last year has worn us out. Sure, we can blame Zoom Fatigue – which is a real thing – but the honest truth is that we’ve an intense period of uncertainty, fear, instability, and even boredom.
But this is going to continue, and we wonder if we’ll ever experience “normal” as we had it a couple of years ago. I suspect not.
So how do we keep our energy up?
Read the rest of this entry »After a big event or a holiday, it can be tough to get your energy focused back on what you need to get done. Actually, that’s the way you know a holiday was valuable: you were able to shift to other things for a while, and it’s kinda tough getting back in the groove.
I took a good long holiday break this Christmas, so I’m experiencing that now. It’s actually a good feeling.
But now I have to get focused again.
Read the rest of this entry »The world is made by us and what we do. The challenge is thinking that we’re individually so insignificant that we can’t possibly make a difference.
Here’s the way out of that fallacy: Maybe it doesn’t matter if you change the world, but instead just for one person at a time.
That particular employee. That one customer. Your child. Your neighbor.
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Our dryer broke down yesterday, right in the middle of doing laundry. So I had the joy of sitting in the laundromat feeling quite annoyed.
It’s not like I didn’t have work to do!
But business DOES impinge on personal, and vice versa. If you just got beat up by a customer, there’s a good chance your family is going to feel the aftereffects.
We’d like to think that we can neatly compartmentalize these things.
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You can do nothing about the past. So business should all be about the future, right?
So why bother looking at stuff we can’t affect? Because of what you can learn from it.
If you think about it, that’s why we track metrics and measures – because of how it informs and supports decisions about the future.
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The Values-Based Business 