Our Vision: Flourishing workplaces filled with thriving employees who know that their contribution is an integral part of the success of the Whole.
TOP READS
RESOURCES
Lisa Kramer, founder of Leading with Intention, shares her insights on coaching, coaching cultures, and the importance of creating meaningful relationships with clients.
Design Your Next Chapter – Create a Roadmap for Retiring with Intention
Much has been written about golf as a mental game. In his book The Inner Game of Golf, Tim Gallwey writes “no real progress in golf can be made without an honest acknowledgement of the inner obstacles that human beings put in the way of themselves and their expression of their potentialities”.
While Gallwey refers to the inner obstacles to playing golf, his message also applies to life.
As an executive coach, I partner with professional men and women in mid-life and beyond to design their next chapter.
The Leader as Coach: Get Curious
Throughout organizations today, business leaders and managers are adopting a coaching style of leadership to achieve results from their employees. At the heart of this leadership style is the ability to be genuinely curious – to listen deeply and to ask powerful questions that stimulate creativity and inspire action.
Assessing Goodness-of-Fit
As coaches, we want to attract clients whose coaching goals fit with what we offer. We also want to work with clients with whom we feel a strong interpersonal connection. I refer to this as ‘goodness-of-fit’: the fit between the coach’s niche, knowledge base and coaching style; and the client’s personality (including temperament, energy and pace) and overall coaching goals. Goodness-of-fit is determined by both the coach and the client.
[More]
Dancing in the Moment with Our Clients
Our presence with clients has a powerful impact on them, both in modeling a way of being, and in creating a deeply meaningful relationship that can lead to transformation for the client. What exactly is coaching presence? In addition to the ICF definition above, coaching presence requires us to ‘dance in the moment’ with our clients, trust our intuition and take risks without knowing what the outcome will be.
[More]
Lessons Learned from ‘Difficult’ Clients
Our presence with clients has a powerful impact on them, both in modeling a way of being, and in creating a deeply meaningful relationship that can lead to transformation for the client. What exactly is coaching presence? In addition to the ICF definition above, coaching presence requires us to ‘dance in the moment’ with our clients, trust our intuition and take risks without knowing what the outcome will be.
[More]