How to handle an unsupportive colleague and build leadership capacity

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Good work alone rarely earns promotion — visibility with decision-makers does.
• Can't exit a poor performer? Most managers do too little before that point.
• Your mind is for ideas, not storage — trusted systems expand leadership capacity.

From layoff to entrepreneur: Pat Flynn's 2008 pivot story

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• False reassurances from bosses make a layoff far more damaging than honesty.
• A forgotten study-notes blog quietly became a $8k/month business.
• Fear before a big move signals importance — not a reason to stop.

Helping reluctant followers lead and navigating leadership transitions

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Not everyone wants to lead — diagnosing superstar vs rock star changes everything
• Military leadership skills transfer well, but vocabulary and feedback loops matter
• Imposter syndrome signals growth, not inadequacy — embrace it

What every leader should know before sending people to training

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Training often isn't the answer — compensation or structure may be the real problem.
• Employees who don't know why they're at training lose most of its value before it starts.
• Leaders who budget weekly time for development compound their impact across entire careers.

Handling criticism, self-doubt, delegation, and change fatigue at work

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Reframe criticism as a chance to negotiate priorities, not defend yourself
• Self-doubt grows with seniority as feedback becomes harder to get
• Taking initiative on unsolved problems separates leaders who advance

How to manage former peers after a promotion

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Why self-doubt projects outward — and how to stop it
• Expect a bell curve: 60% neutral, 20% fans, 20% resistant
• New boundaries you must keep — and the advocacy you gain

Building a subscription model that earns long-term customer loyalty

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Define your forever promise before touching pricing or product bundles
• Your hardest-to-onboard customers are often your highest-lifetime-value accounts
• Rewarding new or threatening customers destroys loyalty in your best ones

Leading a team through crisis: trust, communication, and preparedness

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Inheriting a crisis team requires swift trust, not just fast action
• Leaders who ignore the next crisis building while fighting the current one
• Smoldering crises like workforce burnout are predictable — and mostly ignored

491: How Leaders Build, with Guy Raz

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

How to integrate merged teams and develop leadership influence

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Most merged groups aren't real teams — and that's fine
• Influence without positional power is the leadership skill that scales
• Diversity beyond gender: introverts, culture, and unintentional bias

How to show up genuinely for others without burning out

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Each of empathy's four types has a dark side that harms the people you're helping.
• Stop asking how they make you feel — ask how you are making them feel.
• Presence is a discipline requiring constant reset, not a personality trait.

Supporting a better return to work after maternity leave

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Returning to work is economic reality for most mothers, not a choice
• Parenting sharpens delegation, empathy, and creative thinking at work
• Managers should ask open questions — not project their own guilt assumptions

How high achievers can win at work without losing at life

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Hard constraints on work hours unlock more productivity, not less.
• Hobbies must differ from your profession to actually restore you.
• Work friendships dissolve when proximity ends — real ones survive it.

Edith Eger on forgiveness, choice, and reclaiming joy after trauma

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Forgiveness means refusing to let hatred poison your own spirit
• Victimization is optional — suffering is not the same as being stuck
• Why looks backward; what and how move you forward

The Kirkpatrick model: four levels for training that drives results

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024

• Why the training event alone can never produce real behaviour change
• Start at level four results, work backwards to design the learning
• 89 days of performance support matter more than the 90-day survey