Insights from Amanda
How To Get The Most Out of Your Coaching Sessions
After years of coaching both nonprofit and for‐profit leaders, I’ve witnessed what successful individuals do to get the most out of working with a coach. Perhaps the most important element to your success is the attitude you bring to a personal leadership coaching...
Why Is Personal Leadership Coaching So Important?
For most leaders spring is a busy time of year. Layer on an uncertain and difficult economic climate and we all tend to hunker-down a little. This month I hope to nudge you to consider including your own personal leadership development on your busy agenda. Why? The...
Set Your Priority System: It’s as Easy as ABC, 1-2-3
We sometimes tend to think of our success and value as a leader is measured by how late we stay at the office, or how much time we spend outside of work answering emails and reviewing reports. As a result, business leaders often feel stressed and burned out from even...
Set Your Priorities: Three Most Important Things For Leaders
When I work with business leaders on their Priority ABC, 1-2-3 List, a frequent question usually is: How do I decide what the three most important things are? It’s a good question because your Priority List is not a typical To-Do list. There’s an important...
When Coaches Collaborate, Everyone Benefits
I’ve worked with many of you as a leadership coach and/or consultant to help you solve problems of all sizes and scope. Every so often one of the questions I hear from you is, "just how big of a coaching or consulting project are you equipped to take on"? The answer...
Starved for Time? Snack on This.
Many leaders are hungry for time. Last year, the Center for Creative Leadership conducted a survey that found 88% percent of leaders report work as a primary source of stress in their lives and that having a leadership role increases the level of stress. One of the...
A Bucket or a Basket? Where Do You List Your Dreams?
Every leader needs a bucket list. It’s a helpful concept that can encourage us to be forward-thinking, stretch outside our comfort zone, and set personal and professional goals. Bucket lists also have some drawbacks: They can keep us focused on what we haven’t –...
Is Your Experience Getting in the Way of Effective Leadership?
Like most coaches, I have a coach. In fact, I have several. One of them is my riding instructor, Siggi Wolff of Cavallis Dressage. Almost every time I work with Cato, my Anglo Arabian horse, under her keen eye, I learn something that translates directly into the...
Coaching Leverages Your Leadership
Finding Leadership Inspiration I enjoy coaching leaders like Maor Daniel from Microsoft. He wasn’t at a crisis point in his career. In fact, he’s at the top of his game. He didn’t ‘need’ a coach, he wanted one. He was interested in how coaching could develop his...
