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.
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.
World Bank Names Nebo Official Partner of Its 3rd Annual Innovate4Climate Conference
The Nebo Company has been named an official partner of the World Bank’s 3rd Annual Innovate4Climate (I4C) Conference hosted in Singapore from June 4-7.
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.
The Growth Mindset and the ‘Era of Amazon’
Amazon had a big year in 2017. So how did a company that was founded in 1994 as an online bookseller become so dominant?