Articles & Resources
Articles
Are you stressed and teetering towards burnout? Are you a leader of people and feeling the pinch? This might be just for you.
This article was originally published on LinkedIn. Did I catch you on a busy day? Are you cramming this in, in between meetings, or during lunch, or maybe while you scroll through LinkedIn to take a break from your busy…
To lead as a coach
What are the skills and attributes that leaders can learn to cultivate to help their teams adapt and grow? The idea of the “leader as a coach” has gained popularity and is something I mull over daily as I navigate…
What story am I telling myself? What part of the picture am I “filling in”?
One of our most basic cognitive needs is to make sense of the world around us, and a uniquely human way to make sense of what we experience is by “transporting” our minds by shifting perspectives — we have the…
Feedback: Signals around and within us
How do you know when you’re doing well, or when you need to improve? What information do you use as a measure of your success? What are you relying upon as an indicator of what to do next? What are…
Embracing your rose-coloured glasses
Working with your biases to make the most of your past, present, and future. There is a tendency to look at the past as a way to help inform the future. By looking at past experience, we can make an…
Wheel & Compass
A method for gaining perspective on where you are, and where you could be “I want to make a change but I don’t know where to begin…” Sometimes when we want to make a change in our life, it isn’t…
Resources
Note: Some of these resources are derivatives of earlier work or ideas that have become popularized on the Internet and in mainstream media. When able, I always try to provide links back to original source materials so that you can assess the reliability and validity of the content for yourself. I only publish materials here that I have either researched or have had some measure of success with in professional practice.
If you’re curious about anything you see here or would like to learn more about how I apply these in my work with coaching clients and teams, feel free to each out.
Tannenbaum & Schmidt’s Continuum of Leadership
Wheel & Compass
A method for gaining perspective on where you are, and where you could be “I want to make a change but I don’t know where to begin…” Sometimes when we want to make a change in our life, it isn’t…
Energy Bank
How much do you get done in any given day? Do you ever feel like there’s never enough time in the day to complete everything you set out to do? What if, instead of thinking about how you manage your…
The Zone of Proximal Development: Where growth occurs
Everyone has a zone of comfort. Everyone also has a zone of panic. In between is a zone of discomfort. In the world of education, this zone of discomfort is called the “zone of proximal development” or “ZPD”, and it’s…