Executive Coaching

Thanks Tina…power, accountability and action are great anytime, but especially powerful now in building one’s resilience and influence.

Coaching has the potential to create motivation and commitment not as a directive from the coach, but rather from the insights created by the client. Coaching competencies as outlined by the International Coach Federation (http://www.coachfederation.org) assist us to provide the client access to power, accountability, and action – a pretty good solution…[Read more]

Hello Coaching Group! I am OPM’s Leadership Coaching Program Director and would like to tap into this group’s expertise in the field. Specifically, how do you see coaching as a solution during these austere times?

Group members, I thought this may interest you. http://tinyurl.com/443nexl . The harsh reality is that the marketplace is not producing enough jobs despite government efforts. We must develop innovative strategies to bridge this gap. So what can be done to inspire employees and job seekers, increase employee morale and produce economic growth -…[Read more]

For those folks in the DC Metro area who may be interested:

Monday is the last day to register for the 2011 CBODN Annual Conference – Leveraging Complexity with Creativity: Organizations on the Edge – at the early bird discounted rate!
This year’s conference is shaping up to be one of our best with keynote speakers David Rock, PHD and Glenda…[Read more]

In her featured blog post, Doris Tirone offers her answer to an age-old question:

“True leaders are born into these roles; everyone does not have it in them to be an effective leader.”

Do you agree? Respond below:
https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/effective-leader-great-manager

I’ve written a new blog post regarding how to get the most out of Gen Y which this group may find interesting:

http://thetolerothinktank.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-series-part-2-so-you-hired-gen-y.html

Check out this Federal News Radio interview of coach Gayle Lantz: Five questions managers must ask themselves

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=15&sid=1836177

I believe that most clients prefer to have a leadership coach who has some experience in the same occupation, field, or industry. Of course, most books and professional training for coaches will proclaim that you do not need to have a similar background as your client, but most clients don’t think that way. Also, the coach needs to maintain…[Read more]

Thank you for posting the piece by Marshall Goldsmith. His point about being a “coach as facilitator” instead of a “coach as expert” really stood out for me. Does this run contrary to the belief that leaders in industry or government want a coach with prior experience in the same field as the leaders being coached?

Here is a thoughtful piece by Marshall Goldsmith: It’s Not About You

http://unboundideas.com/2009/its-not-about-you/

Hi Jennifer,

Welcome to the group! Feel free to post discussion comments and questions. Any suggested tools or resources would be well received I’m sure. Welcome aboard.

Greetings. I’m not an executive coach but I’m one of four coaches in a fledgling Coaching Program at the Bureau of the Public Debt (Treasury). We offer coaching services to all employees at all levels. We’re CTI trained. Interested in seeing what’s out there in government coaching circles.

Hi Craig: Welcome! This group can help to share information about executive coaching and leadership development. Feel free to post interesting articles, coaching tools, etc.

Hi Kitty,

I would very much like to check out your Delicious bookmarks on leadership issues. Let’s connect on this.

By the way, if anyone wants to go look at those links, there are 1,433 of them here, 191 of which are directly related to leadership and in alignment with the aims of the group.

Thanks for pointing us to this great article, Scott. I’ve just added it to my Delicious bookmarks so I can find it again.