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    Is NOW the Right Time for Leadership Coaching?

    In the past two weeks, leaders everywhere are in search of answers – or at least economic and health crisis forecasts that can provide the basis for emergency and near-term strategy development. When the going gets tough, leaders benefit from coaching.  While it can be hard to make the decision to spend at a time like this, here are five reasons why leadership coaching might be the best investment you make this year.

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    Backbone and Heart: The Dance of Coaching

    As coach and author Mary Beth O’Neill describes in her book, Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart: A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenges, a coaching engagement “is a continual dance of balancing backbone and heart,” requiring coaches to speak not only with kindness, but also truthfully and courageously.

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    At the Learning Edge

    Each of us has a “learning edge” – our own personal frontier in which we are rapidly, and sometimes uncomfortably, learning about ourselves and the world. At this frontier, we have the greatest gains to make.

    Values-Based Recognition

    Somewhere between 428 and 347 BCE, Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, famously called humans “a being in search of meaning.” Two thousand years later that search is still underway.

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