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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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. The conference is an integral part of the global dialogue on climate finance, climate investment, and climate markets. Sponsored by the governments of Singapore, Germany, and Spain, the World Bank […]
What sets today’s iconic companies and organizations – Apple, Starbucks, Amazon, Netflix, Wholefoods, AirBnB, Uber, etc – apart from others? According to two business professors, it’s the strategic imagination of their founders and leaders.
Executive, business, and leadership coaching has evolved significantly over the past ten years, growing to a $12 billion dollar industry. So, what’s in store for the next ten years?
Your true goal as a leader is to be respected, not liked. If you are aiming to be liked, you will make compromises to accommodate people and you will be vulnerable to other people’s dramas rather than holding true to the goals and priorities for which you are responsible. Aim to be respected rather than liked. If you are kind, clear, fair and firm, […]
Presenter Kate Ebner, CEO, Leadership Coach & Facilitator, The Nebo Company Kim D’Abreu, Leadership Coach & Facilitator, The Nebo Company Date Wednesday, June 12, 2019 Time 12:00pm – 12:45pm EST *****
While sensitivities about cross-gender mentoring relationships are not new, the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements have sparked stronger feelings of caution in some men who worry that it may be too risky now to mentor women. And women also have reason to be cautious. According to a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in late 2017, 48% of currently employed […]
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To be intentional about something is to go about it with forethought and understanding. Setting an intention is a wonderful way to focus on what you would like to gain from a certain situation or plan for how you’d like to show-up. In other words, an intention can be used as an excellent tool to practice self-management and improve your presence and […]
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 may be outside of our comfort zone, but it is here that we have the greatest gains to make.