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Baby Boomers Retiring? 20 Strategies To Help Companies Cope Starting a coaching engagement with a new client can be both exciting and challenging. As a coach, it is important for you to establish a productive conversation and build a strong relationship with the client from the outset. One effective way to achieve this is by asking…

16 Lessons Coaches Learned By Working With Their Own Coach Who coaches the coach? Whether the focus of a coaching practice is on helping clients improve their businesses, careers, leadership skills or personal confidence, without finding guidance in their own lives and tending to their own needs first, a professional coach may struggle to help…

How To Help ‘Quiet Quitters’ Set Boundaries And Perform At A High Level Although the media buzz around “quiet quitting” may be relatively new, the concept of unhappy employees barely meeting minimum expectations certainly isn’t. In this new context, quiet quitting means workers only performing the main functions of their jobs, without going above and…

14 Top Tips For Senior Executives Wanting To Start Their Own Companies It’s not uncommon for senior executives to get an itch to leave the organization they’ve been serving in to start their own company. To improve their chances of finding success with their new endeavor, there are several crucial things they should carefully consider…

14 Ways Leaders Can Effectively Address Unconscious Biases In OthersPeople don’t usually mean to behave in a biased manner or make others around them feel uncomfortable; many times, they aren’t even aware that they’re doing it when it happens. If such situations create problems in the workplace, those in leadership positions are responsible for addressing…

Focus Group Turned Your Idea Inside-Out? 15 Next Steps For Aspiring EntrepreneursIn this age of increasing entrepreneurship, it seems just about everyone has an idea for a new business, product or service. Unfortunately, not all of those ideas are well-received. Having their idea turned inside-out and upside-down by a focus group is every aspiring entrepreneur’s…

Blind Trust Or Micromanagement? 14 Ways For New Managers To Strike A BalanceNew managers who feel unsure about how to inspire team members to perform at a high level will sometimes tighten their grip on their team’s projects. Unfortunately, trying to control all of the moving pieces from your limited perspective is not a good…

How To Attract Better Talent: 14 Useful Tips For Startup FoundersStartup founders rely heavily on the skills of their initial hires. However, given the competitive nature of recruiting in many industries, attracting the best talent can be a challenge. Larger, more well-established companies usually offer better compensation in terms of both pay and perks.It’s a…

Enhancing Decision-Making Skills: 12 Tips For Overthinking ExecutivesIndecisiveness can be crippling for senior business leaders. For executives heading up critical projects or large departments, their decisions can have a big impact on the health of the company. With so much riding on the choices they make, the “analysis paralysis” phenomenon can overwhelm them. If they begin…

Break Out Of The Comfort Zone With These 16 ExercisesWhen you feel safe with the stimuli around you and are able to indulge in the activities and behaviors you prefer, you are in your “comfort zone.” If you never step out of it and into unfamiliar scenarios and situations, you may become stuck in hard-to-break patterns…