Correcting Four Erroneous Assumptions about Leaders
During the last several decades I’ve had the chance to interact with various types of leaders –professional, political and social – both great and small. As I observed each of them I was able to see...
View ArticleIs Hiring a Professional Life Coach for You?
A life coach is someone who works with you to help you with some aspect of your business and/or personal life and to help you improve your performance. Coaches are individuals who aid you by observing...
View ArticleThinking of Hiring a Life Coach?
In a previous post, I posed the question as to whether using the services of a Life Coach made sense and briefly discussed the evolution of coaching as a profession. In this blog the discussion centers...
View ArticleLeadership Principles for the Young Professional: 10 Action Steps to Take
As children, many of us got used to hearing from the adults in our lives, No, Don’t, or Can’t. No, leave that alone! Don’t do this! You can’t do that! Many of our parents told us to keep quiet and not...
View ArticleA Mother’s Love and the 5 Lessons I Learned
In honor of my mother as we celebrate Mother’s Day. Throughout my adult life I had always prided myself on the charitable works I did or the causes I supported financially. It wasn’t until my mother...
View ArticleChristian Leadership – 9 Steps to Being There
It is a truism that effective leadership is needed on the organizational, professional as well as personal levels. It is also true that leaders, particularly those in the public eye, whose actions and...
View ArticleLeading Your Way from Fear to Fulfillment
Face yourself in the mirror and ask your reflecting countenance, honestly and without evasion, the following questions: Am I living the vision I had for my life? Has the fulfillment I yearned for...
View ArticleA Dream for Father’s Day
My parents were married for more than 50 years and, as my father came to terms with his own mortality, he exacted a promise that I was only too willing to fulfill. “When I’m gone,” he would say on...
View ArticleHappy Father’s Day, Mom!
Every Father’s Day, without fail, I receive the not unexpected call from my ex-mother in law. Her first words are invariably, “Happy Father’s Day, Elaine!.” After we laugh together at her annual...
View ArticleSeven Steps to Effective Public Speaking
The often-repeated statement that ‘Americans fear public speaking more than they fear death’ may be a vast overstatement in today’s society, nevertheless studies show that public speaking is...
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