May 15, 2012
Dianna Anderson
When I started coaching 18 years ago I was surprised to find that, regardless of the nature of the coaching engagement, I was teaching people how to integrate coaching approaches into their day-to-day interactions. It wasn’t intentional; it just made sense. The challenges that my clients faced, such as providing difficult feedback, inviting colleagues to [...]
April 10, 2012
Dianna Anderson
When we work with clients to instill coaching-based leadership into the fabric of organizations invariably one of the first questions we are asked is, “Where should we start?” Our answer: “Work with the willing.” The current change management orthodoxy is very much about “command and control.” This approach assumes you have to start with the [...]
November 30, 2011
Dianna Anderson
We want to change the things that bother us the most. We don’t need to look too far to find people and situations we feel are overdue for an overhaul, such as the myopic turf wars that limit our opportunities to collaborate, chauvinistic leadership styles that don’t honor the value in diversity, or the self-centered [...]
November 8, 2011
Dianna Anderson
Dianna Anderson, CEO of Cylient, recently published an article, When Does Business Coaching Have High Impact on Employees? on Task.fm, a site where “Real experts give real, unique advice for your business and career.” Check it out.
November 3, 2011
Dianna Anderson
One of my favorite coaching questions is, “What would you need to say or do to be at peace with this?” It can create dramatic shifts in situations where a person feels responsible for something or wants to influence a situation he cannot completely control. Here are some ways to use this question to help [...]
September 11, 2011
Dianna Anderson
Early on in one of our Coaching in the Moment® workshops this week a participant looked at me with all earnestness and said, “I still don’t get why we can’t just tell people what to do? Why do we need to coach them?” What is implied is telling people what to do is faster and [...]
June 1, 2011
Merrill Anderson
For the past 20 years or so business leaders have derided the “vision thing.” The world is moving too fast they say, there are too many moving parts and no one can anticipate what’s next. While there is an element of truth to this, there is also an element missing: vision as an expression of conviction.
May 19, 2011
Dianna Anderson
I recently read an article based on the newly released book, The Corner Office, in which New York Times columnist Adam Bryant shares the themes that emerged from his interviews with more than 70 chief executives and other leaders.
February 18, 2011
Dianna Anderson
The role of the change agent is not an easy one. Often the people who see the possibilities for change are different in some ways from the culture in which they work. These differences are often what make them so valuable as change agents.
January 12, 2011
Dianna Anderson
I remember learning Lewin’s model of change in my Psychology 101 class. The model has three steps to describe the change process: Unfreeze, Change, Refreeze.
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