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Seven Steps for Embracing the New!
As we launch into 2024, are you ready to embrace the new with focus and fun – not with fear? Here are seven powerful tips for renewing yourself both personally and professionally. Use them [...]
What’s Just in Time Coaching?
By Marie Moran Your team leader has just called with some late breaking company news, and it’s not all good. In fact, you’re feeling distressed, but you don’t really have anyone to talk to [...]
Knowing Which Fish to Keep and Which to Throw Back!
Life can bring us many opportunities to pursue. One of our biggest challenges as an individual is to recognize which ones to say “yes” to and which ones are better to pass up. For when we say yes to an opportunity, it takes us on a journey. While we are on that journey, we can miss other opportunities, some which might have been better for us!
Have You Discovered the Power of Your Presence?
Executive presence. Most of us can name at least one individual who is said to have executive presence. We recognize presence in others when we feel their impact on others, a situation, or their environment. Yet, how do we define this mysterious quality we call executive presence? And to what extent are you utilizing the power of your presence?
Heading Across the Pond
3 Tips for Smoothing the Waters of Expat Assignments There is little doubt as to why the number of global assignments is growing exponentially each year. As more companies employ multi-national strategies, the relocation of [...]
5 Ways to Avoid ‘Anything Goes’ Conference Calls
Conference calls. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. We’ve all been on calls where it’s clear participants are unengaged and multitasking, no one talks and then everyone talks, and sometimes we [...]
Adapt to Change or Follow the Buffalo?
Many years ago, I was sitting with Henry Conyers, my coach at the time, discussing how rapidly the planet was changing. Henry compared those people who won’t change to the dying-off buffalo herds. “All things [...]
The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Communication Misfires
More than ever we live in a melting pot of cultures and customs. Most businesses today not only work with employees, clients and colleagues from all around the globe, but they conduct business across oceans [...]
The Five-Minute Glance at Something
A Time Management Tip for Each Day Much has been written (including by me) about the importance of managing your time, staying focused, avoiding distractions, and we certainly can all recognize why that’s an important [...]
Hiring the Wrong Person for the Job
One of the costliest mistakes one can make in business is to hire the wrong person for a specific job. Most people will nod their head in agreement with this, and yet even though it’s [...]
What’s the Best Use of Your Time Right Now?
Do you ever have those days at work where you look at your calendar and groan? Wondering how you’re going to get something critically important done when you’re booked up with typical To Do’s and [...]
The Challenges of Presenting to Cross-Cultural Audiences
By Ed Moehlenkamp Clients often ask why I am so passionate about providing MMCo’s Going Global International training and development services. My attraction comes from observing first-hand how our cross-cultural coaching and consulting impacts [...]
Career Development: How important are those credentials?
Do you know someone who’s been thinking about going back to school for an advanced degree or credential? That question comes up frequently in our private coaching sessions. Since that usually requires a pretty heavy [...]
Calming Your Concerns About Money
Investments Versus Income Money is certainly a hot topic these days! Even when folks have a fair amount of it, they can easily get distracted, worried or totally shut down when the markets are going [...]
Knowing When to Take a Rest
And why the heck you oughta! With this last long holiday weekend just finished, I felt a special calm and quiet happening out there in the world, did you? Freeways weren’t crowded, weather was so [...]
To Get Old, or To Not Get Old
That IS the question! What does it mean to get old, really? A lot has been written and is still being studied about aging. Most of us would like to know how to slow down [...]
10 Tips to Thrive Under Pressure
It used to be called stress management -- balancing all of life's competing priorities, "keeping your chin up" during times of adversity, attempting to smile or breathe through unexpected challenges. Today, we at MMCo call [...]
Discovering Your Recharge Mechanisms
To fully acknowledge the importance of taking time to recharge and renew, let’s dive deeper into what types of things might register for you as “battery rechargers” -- your own personal recharge mechanisms that you [...]
Making Time for Your Recharge & Renewal
Honoring the Principle of Balance Here in the United States more so than in many other cultures, we tend to be quite productivity oriented. In today’s business world, it’s not uncommon for high achievers to [...]
Is Gravitas Still Important?
If you turn on the news today, you might be wondering, where are we headed in terms of leadership behavior? What’s expected, condoned, encouraged, or allowed? Are there core values or key behavioral descriptors that [...]
Moving Beyond Procrastination and Overwhelm
Using the Principle of Incrementalism Have you even been overwhelmed at the thought of trying to complete a large task? This could include anything from cleaning out the garage after years of storing all those [...]
Team Decision-making: How Involvement Equals Commitment
I remember years ago when I was doing quite a bit of team-building consulting, and often I’d get asked by a leader “What do you think I ought to do for team building?” Since team [...]
Top 10 Reasons that Business Initiatives Fail
I’ve recently been involved in a few business initiatives, both with client companies and within my own consulting firm, that started out strong, then fizzled out. We’ve all seen it happen: great ideas turn into [...]
Acknowledging “All is Well”
Have you ever been in a state of worry and distress that consumes you? Well I certainly have! Years ago, when my mentor Henry Conyers was alive, I remember calling him for advice one day. [...]
What Got You Here…
Not long ago, I walked into a one-on-one coaching session with a client who was poised to present her issue for the day’s discussion. Her manager had recently spoken to her about the expression, “What got you here won’t get you to the next level,” and my client was concerned about how this concept might apply to her.
How Leadership is Like Dance
Have you ever considered how much being in a leadership role is like dancing? Sometimes you’re being asked to shape up a new team, which might feel like doing a German March.
Calm Under Conflict
Have you ever noticed how much time and energy conflicts can take if they are not managed well (or nipped in the bud)? Even with all my years of “poise under pressure” training, it can be hard to stay balanced when things aren’t working as smoothly as expected.
8 Tips to Avoid the Presentation Butterflies
Have you ever noticed how much time and energy conflicts can take if they are not managed well (or nipped in the bud)? Even with all my years of “poise under pressure” training, it can be hard to stay balanced when things aren’t working as smoothly as expected.