Doing the Really Tough Stuff
Nobody ever said that being a change practitioner would be easy. After all, change is challenge-filled, meaning that our focus is on helping our clients to navigate difficulty day in [...]
When We’re Not Afraid
How often does fear affect how you fulfill your responsibilities as a change practitioner? Perhaps it is the mild, imperceptible, fear that you aren’t going to be able to complete [...]
Ditch the Drama
Some people have more of a flair for the dramatic than others. As change professionals, rarely, if ever, will drama contribute to our success. Because the major changes that we [...]
Be a Remarkable Change Practitioner
If you know Seth Godin, you know that he is always pushing the edge, bringing a magnifying glass, a telescope, or another new lens for viewing our lives and how [...]
How Hard Are You Working?
How much of what you are doing at work comes easy to you? What percentage of your time are you spending feeling challenged to learn and grow? In this Inc. [...]
Questioning to Strengthen Client Relationships
As a professional coach serving highly experienced change practitioners, one of the most frequent challenges I hear is, "How do I become more than a hired hand so that my [...]
Strengthening the Decisions of Decision-Makers
As change practitioners, we are not typically the ones making the big decisions. However, we are often in a position to inform those decisions. And, those of us who serve [...]
Get Your Motivation Re-Charge
As a change practitioner, it is likely that others look to you—and interact with you—as a leader, whether or not you hold a formal leadership role. You may be an [...]
Knowledge is Power…When Shared
In this short but important TED talk (The Military Case for Sharing Knowledge), General Stanley McChrystal challenges a paradigm that displays itself not only in the military, but in organizations [...]
Innovation: What Questions Should You Be Asking?
If we are to be fully in service to our clients, we should be prepared to help them gain new insights to how they are supporting—and sometimes undermining—the changes they [...]
