Month: January 2024

This issue describes an idea that I’d like to get feedback on, and then responds to the question: “What do you do when you think you have given someone too much responsibility/power? Or, how do you know when the person can’t handle the amount of freedom they are given?” I’ve been busy planning and brainstorming new ideas, and I’d love to get your feedback on one of those new ideas: Would you be interested in paying to participate in a small group live workshop on developing a coaching…

You’re receiving this free newsletter because you subscribed yourself or you enrolled in a program with me. I hope you’ll find these letters valuable, but if you’d like to unsubscribe you can do that at the bottom of this message. And if you have any questions or comments, I love to get responses! This week, I’m responding to another one of the questions that I wasn’t able to get to in last December’s webinar. This particular question connects with a topic we’ll be discussing in the next…

When was the last time you gave yourself time to just focus on asking questions without pressure to get to the answers? In the most recent meeting of the current cohort of Developing a Coaching Approach to Leadership, we spent some time discussing The art of powerful questions: Catalyzing insight, innovation, & action. This paper is 20 years old, but the main points still hold true. North American culture rewards having answers, not questions. Those of us who grew up taking standardized tests…