The Leadership Compass

Insights on Growth, Self-Discovery, and Thriving in Leadership

Coaching a King

This blog has given me new perspectives in how I look at things; always a question in my mind, “is this blog post material?” Sometimes it is so easy and obvious. Other times I have to look back at my calendar to spur an idea of something to share. This past week I saw the…
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Coaching Through Counting: What You Count Matters

“Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.” – Einstein I often coach my business clients about implementing key metrics and measures of their key indicators. It has been my experience that you get what you measure, this week I was reminded to look at this a little…
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Coaching Balance: Toss Your Clock & Calendar

Toss out your calendar and clock and pay attention to how you feel! Ok, you will need the clock to be on time to commitments and the calendar to keep track of appointments but use these tools as good servants and not masters. Recently, I realized that I had a belief that if I was…
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Coaching to Celebrate Progress & Success

This is the fourth post in a series of using your internalGPS to navigate to your big destinations: Where are you now? Current location – Dec. 20 What are your irresistible destinations? – Dec. 27 How do you overcome obstacles – Jan. 3 Celebrating progress and success – Today Small Steps “Do not fear going…
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Coaching Your internalGPS: How Do You Overcome Obstacles?

Happy New Year! A Note of Gratitude as we begin the New Year: I write this blog, along with my coaching, consulting and speaking as a service to you and a calling of who I am. This is a work in progress and your feedback is extremely important to me. Thank you so much to…
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What Is Your Irresistible Destination?

This is part two in the series of using your internalGPS. Last week was all about looking back over the past year and understanding where you are now. Where are you now? Current location – Last week What are your irresistible destinations? – Today’s post How do you overcome obstacles – January week1 Celebrating progress…
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Your internal GPS’s Current Location: Where Are You Today?

You need to know your current location first in order for your internal GPS to work. This is the first step in my coaching model. In a series of four posts I’ll write about each step in the model: Where are you now? Current location – Today’s post What are your irresistible destinations? – Next…
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Give Yourself the Gift of Time and Energy

This past week I paid attention to the things in my routine that I have changed over the past few years to give me more time and/or energy. You may think, “Oh but that only takes me a few minutes!” But, those few minutes add up and/or they may be sapping your energy! Here are…
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Making Friends With Trouble

“If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don’t say embrace trouble; that’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and you had better…
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Creating More Productivity By Shifting Your internalGPS

You are busy. You don’t have time for adding even one more thing to your schedule, right? Some of you don’t agree and that is great, but I know most of you feel like this and I ask that you stay open to adding a little daily commitment that will pay big dividends in your…
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