The Coaching Minute

The end of any month can be like a mini-new year in that you get a chance to make a fresh start. If you are overwhelmed with tasks and your inbox is flooding but you have no time to catch up [...]

“I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up!” I hear this statement a lot in my line of work but honestly, it makes me cringe. The reason I don’t like it is that I believe that words are very [...]

The dictionary defines stuck as being caught or held in a position so that you cannot move. We’ve all been there—trapped in a situation, circumstance, or life phase that we don’t know how to get [...]

It’s no secret that we all spend an inordinate amount of time in meetings—daily, weekly, monthly; work meetings, staff meetings, presentations, conference calls, webinars, check-ins, demo calls, [...]

I recently calculated that I have held nearly 7,000 one-hour coaching sessions among my hundreds of clients over the years. This realization caused me to reflect on what all of those [...]

If people did not have to make big decisions, professional coaches would hardly have anything to do. I find that when life presents us with a big decision, and it feels like a struggle then one [...]

I find that people can be pretty hard on themselves when it comes to assessing their own skills and abilities. Being self-critical may help us move toward improvement, but only for about two [...]