Coaching for Leaders
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Coaching for Leaders focuses on practical leadership development, mentoring, communication, and management skills for people leading teams and organizations.
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Included for practical guidance on practical leadership development, mentoring, communication, and management skills for people leading teams and organizations.
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How a teenager built a mission-driven lemonade brand from age four
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Origin stories
10
Resilience & grit
6
Hiring & recruitment
5
Turned a bee sting at age four into 1,800 stores across 40 states.
Bravery in sales came from product belief, not fearlessness.
Parents led and followed at different stages — and knew which was which.
How to help underdogs thrive in organizations
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Why diversity programmes miss the individual — and what fills the gap
Accepting bias without endorsing it is a strategic advantage
Your uniqueness is a distinct advantage, not a limitation
How to lead a remote team: principles that have not changed in 25 years
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
8
Delegation
5
Your team perceives you as less present than you think you are.
Checking in and checking up are different — set expectations upfront.
Informal early warnings vanish remotely; problems surface only when they blow up.
How to build a LinkedIn profile that gets you found and hired
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Social media
8
SEO
7
Branding
5
Your company name in the headline wastes searchable keyword space
Complete profiles are 40x more likely to receive opportunities
Personalised connection requests open conversations; generic ones don't
Conflict resolution
YouTube
How to help a know-it-all change their behaviour
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Conflict resolution
9
Management
7
Pause, name their genius, then show how their style buries it
Reformed difficult people earn more goodwill than lifelong nice ones
Coaching only works when the person is threatened, not genuinely cruel
Three anchor stories every leader needs to influence effectively
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Public speaking
9
Communication
7
Pitching investors
6
The best stories don't win — the best-told stories do
Three specific story types cover every high-stakes professional moment
Authenticity is rehearsed, not spontaneous — preparation is the method
Transitioning from peer to leader: a practical playbook for new managers
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Motivation
6
Why managing former peers is an emotional challenge most orgs ignore
30% sales lift from focusing on just two wildly important goals
A four-episode curriculum that sequences leadership preparation in order
Leadership as an act of hospitality: lessons from Eleven Madison Park
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
8
Delegation
5
Hospitality is the only competitive advantage that cannot be copied.
Investing in your team first is strategy, not sentiment.
Criticism is investment — praise without it leaves people without growth.
A practical system for going paperless: capture, process, edit, share
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Processes & SOPs
9
Automation & tools
7
Start going paperless today — the backlog doesn't need solving first.
A consistent file naming convention is the one habit that scales.
Redaction vs. a black box: one hides data, one just covers it.
How to get real value from 360-degree feedback
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
6
Confidentiality isn't optional — it's what makes raters tell the truth.
Look for themes across raters, never fixate on a single comment.
Your first 360 is a baseline, not a verdict — treat it as a gift.
Tying leadership development to business results
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
6
60–90% of training is never applied — $120B wasted annually in the US
Leadership is a means to an end; design programs for specific business outcomes
Baby boomer retirement wave creates an 18-year talent shortage — develop from within
Leadership Q&A: Motivation, communication challenges, difficult bosses, and stagnant organisations
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Communication
7
Downtime is your best window to fix broken systems and processes.
Physical constraints can prevent micromanagement — reframe them as strengths.
Career years not spent growing are wasted; build your community outside work.
How to quit faster: recognising the right signals before it's too late
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Goal setting
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Pivoting
5
Pre-defining kill criteria beats in-the-moment quitting decisions every time.
Sticking to the wrong thing crowds out time for the right thing.
Goals need 'unless clauses' or they trap you past the point of reason.
Building an invincible company through explore and exploit
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Business models
9
Long-term planning
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Innovation is a search problem — run many bets, kill most early.
Evidence across four risk dimensions beats ideas on a spreadsheet.
CEO spending 40%+ of time on innovation is the decisive signal.
Conflict resolution
YouTube
How to handle difficult conversations as a leader
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Conflict resolution
9
Communication
8
Culture building
5
Proactively seeking feedback is far easier than waiting for it
Slowing down on 'yellow light' signals prevents unnecessary conflict
Modeling difficult conversations matters more than any reading list