What Not To Say When You Are Mad
When you are stressed or irritated, you might sabotage your conversations with one word or phrase. This list will help you catch them before they leave your lips.
3 Steps to Achieving Inner Stillness
Achieving inner stillness is getting comfortable with the beautiful emptiness of not knowing. Practice these steps to improve your coaching, leadership and parenting.
Do You Have the Courage to Coach?
The courage that emanates from your presence will help others override their fears. Learn how to call forth your courage with self-awareness and choice.
Stop Saying Stupid Things
When life disruptions and irritations cause frustration and rage, you say stupid things. Learn 5 ways to manage your mind to better control your mouth.
How Do You Know When You Are Using Your Intuition Or Intellect?
How do you discern the difference in body intelligence from intellectual invention – is it intuition or interpretation? This post will give you tips.
Stop Trying to Pay Attention
Listening is not the same as being emotionally present. You must consciously choose your emotions to hold meaningful conversations that move people forward. Read this post to learn how to fully be with people when interacting.
Do You Have Conversations or Inspired Experiences?
A conversation doesn’t guarantee a meaningful experience. This post will give you three steps to create connections that change people’s lives.
Do You Want to Be Proficient or Profound?
To give the most value to your clients and colleagues, seek to be profound, not just proficient. This requires you let go of how you define yourself. The practice is not easy. This post will help you launch your journey.
Envisioning A Future When Anything Could Happen
These 3 practices will help you create flexible visions without giving up what is most important to you, especially when the future is uncertain.
Is Your Empathy Serving or Hurting You?
Can you tell when you feel empathic concern or empathic distress? One connects, the other hurts. Use non-reactive empathy to get better results.
5 Ways to Shift from Coaxing to Coaching
Coaxing vs. Challenging. Do you know the difference? Read the 5 examples that demonstrate the difference and tips for challenging effectively.
Five Conversational Stingers That Can Wound a Relationship
When stressed, we often hurl conversational stingers that can wound a relationship. Read this post for examples, and tips to regulate your reactions.
CAN YOU JUST SHUT UP?
When uncomfortable, we often talk too much. If you just shut up, open up, and listen with compassionate curiosity, you can better understand what people need. You can learn what to say. Read for tips on how to receive instead of offer ideas.
How to Revive a Brain Attacked by Stress
When attacked by acute stress, our brains shut down. We can revive the brains of others by using compassionate curiosity. Follow these tips to open minds.
Video – What Type of Silence Are You Using?
The type of silence you are using will impact the effectiveness of your conversation.
When They Look to You to Lead is the Perfect Time to Coach
What is the best way to lead right now when the future is not clear and people are expecting the worse to happen?
Fun in Quarantine – Using Humor to Fortify your Mind, Body, and Spirit
There are many things you can lose right now. There is one thing you can keep – your sense of humor! Read 10 tips for staying healthy with humor.
How to Deal with Needy People
When you feel the tug of someone you think is overly needy, what do you do?
9 Types of Silence and the Impact of Each
Here is a list of 9 types of silence and how each position might impact your conversations either positively or negatively.
Learn to Discern What to Let Go Of to Increase What You Want
You need to learn to discern what you need to hold onto and let go of everything else. This will give you the time and energy to realize the success you desire.
Why Goals Don’t Work and What to Do Instead
Goals don’t work not because people don’t set up the mental habit to support the desired change. Take the steps in this post to realize the change you want to make.
Are You a Knowledge Sherpa? You might be if you coach with reflective inquiry
In his book, How We Think, John Dewey described reflective inquiry as “enabling others to climb a tree in their minds.” They gain a broader standpoint to see connections and faults in thinking to better assess what to do next. This post explains how we do this.
To Coach or Not – How Do You Know if Coaching is Wanted or Needed?
How do you know when people need coaching? First, choose the right time and conditions to ensure your coaching is both meaningful and successful. Then know there are times when you will choose to do something other than coaching.
Stop Trying to Ask Good Questions
Read this post to discover how to make your conversations more effective, even when you break some of the hallowed rules.