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3 Ways Cylient’s Untying the Knot® Approach is Different From Other Coaching Methods
Is your organization avoiding talking about the things that matter most? At Cylient, we often say: “You can’t change what […]
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What does it mean to be a good leader, now?
Have you ever stopped to consider how many changes you and your organization had to make to survive during COVID-19? […]
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Limited Time Offer: 15% Off Coaching in the Moment for New Customers
If you’ve ever wanted to try our Coaching in the Moment® workshop, now is the time. New customers receive 15% […]
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Cylient CEO Featured on Leadership 377 Podcast
Cylient CEO was recently featured on the Leadership 377 Podcast. In this episode, Dianna and Gary Hughey discuss: New leadership […]
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Cylient CEO Featured on Lead Like a Woman Podcast
Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson was recently featured on Andrea Heuston’s podcast called, “Lead Like a Woman.” In this episode, they […]
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Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson in TD Magazine
Does it feel like you or your organization are sometimes drowning in relentless waves of change? Common responses to change […]
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Learning as a Journey: Changing Mindsets Using Online Collaborative Learning
A Dialogue with Intrepid Learning and Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson This dialogue has passed. Watch the recording below. Before the pandemic, […]
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The What, Why and How of Empowerment: A Dialogue with Dianna Anderson and Ashley T Brundage
This dialogue has passed. Watch the video below for a recording of Dianna and Ashley’s conversation: Through perseverance, reflection […]
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Why Great Leaders Set Each Other Up to Win: A Dialogue with Dianna Anderson and Caltha Seymour
This dialogue has passed. Watch the video below for a recording of Dianna and Caltha’s conversation: A Dialogue with Dianna […]
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Cylient CEO Featured in Training Industry: Unraveling Complexity with a Culture of Coaching
Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson recently wrote an article that was featured in the Winter issue of Training Industry: Unraveling Complexity […]
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Why Generative Leadership Matters Now | Virtual Dialogue
This dialogue has passed. Watch the recording below of the discussion. A Dialogue with Dianna Anderson and Pam Boney How […]
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How to Tune In to the Hidden Story in Conversations
Our stories about ourselves and what we believe to be true about the world dictate how we respond to whatever […]
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21 Coaching Questions to Help Get Centered in a World of Uncertainty
When there are many questions and few definitive answers, it can create a feeling of uncertainty. That can be unsettling […]
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Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson Featured on MillerKnoll Podcast
Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson was recently featured on Leadership By Design, a Global Talent Management Podcast, hosted by Heather Esposito […]
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11 Coaching Approaches to Help People Find and Keep Their Focus
Focusing is not that easy in a world of uncertainty, but that’s exactly what we need to do now. To […]
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What to Expect When Employees Reconnect: A Live, Virtual Dialogue
This dialogue has passed. Please watch the recording below: As employees all over the world return to the physical workplace—or […]
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5 Things You Can Do to Help Leaders Embrace Coaching-Based Leadership Now
It’s possible you understand the value of coaching-based leadership, but your leaders don’t fully understand the benefits, and keep doing […]
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Is Your Organization Ready for Behavior Change at Scale? | Virtual Presentation by Dianna Anderson
This presentation, Is Your Organization Ready for Behavior Change at Scale?, was originally presented by Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson at […]
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Virtual Dialogue: Building Stronger Connections with Our Post-Pandemic Stories
This virtual dialogue event has passed. See below for the recording of “Building Stronger Connections with Our Post-Pandemic Stories.” While […]
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Meeting, Greeting and Honoring Our Post-Pandemic Selves
While the entire world has shared the challenge of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, each of us has experienced this […]
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Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson Published in Training Industry
Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson was published in Training Industry with her new article, “Conversations that Catalyze Complex Change.” In this […]
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Why “Safe and Seen” Cultures Are Essential Now
Take a moment to remember a time when you felt comfortable, supported and accepted for who you truly are. You […]
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Virtual Dialogue: The Business Imperative of a Safe and Seen Culture
Watch the recording of “The Business Imperative of a Safe and Seen Culture” below: Do you feel safe being seen […]
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Virtual Dialogue: Welcome to the Age of Collective Creativity!
The dialogue “Welcome to the Age of Collective Creativity!” has passed. Please watch the recording below. About the Dialogue In […]
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Making Inclusion A Way of Life
If diversity is the invitation to the party, inclusion is feeling comfortable enough to be in the middle of the […]
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Hand in Hand: How “in the Moment” Coaching Brings Inclusion to Life | Dialogue
This dialogue has passed. Watch the recording of “How ‘in the Moment’ Coaching Brings Inclusion to Life” below: Inclusion happens […]
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7 Reasons to Incorporate Gratitude into Your Leadership Style
Happy Thanksgiving month here in the United States! This time of the year, it’s common for people to start reflecting […]
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Dialogue: Leading with Gratitude and Grace in Trying Times
This dialogue, “Leading with Gratitude and Grace in Trying Times,” has passed. Watch the video below for the recording. Dialogue […]
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How Coaching in the Moment Teaches Learning as a Skill
As we round the corner to head into 2021, it’s time to give serious thought to the skills your organization […]
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Dialogue: How to Become Friends with Fear
This dialogue has passed. View the recording below to learn how to become friends with fear. How people respond to […]
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A Dialogue with Dianna: Tuning into the Hidden Story in Conversations
This event has passed. Watch the recording below: Timeline 1:47 Each of us is the hero of our own story. […]
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How to Connect from Six Feet Away—or More
With physical connection now pretty much off the table for most people, we have the opportunity to step back and […]
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A Dialogue with Dianna: What’s the Cost of Conversations that Don’t Happen?
This dialogue has passed. Watch the recording below to see the discussion on the cost of conversations that don’t happen: […]
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Is “Cancel Culture” Canceling Our Chance to Change?
We’re all familiar with “cancel culture.” Typically, a public figure says a foot-in-mouth comment publicly, somebody notices the wrongdoing, and […]
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The Problem with Perfection (Episode 14 of “How Do I Lead Now?”)
This episode of “How Do I Lead Now?” features Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson talking through the problem with perfection, and […]
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How to Create Change in Complex Situations (Episode 13 of “How Do I Lead Now?”)
Today’s episode of “How Do I Lead Now?” features Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson talking about how to create change in […]
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Discerning Patterns as a Leadership Skill (Episode 12 of “How Do I Lead Now?”)
In Episode 12 of “How Do I Lead Now?” Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson shares ways for discerning patterns as a […]
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How to Coach People to Build Confidence (Episode 11 of “How Do I Lead Now?”)
Episode 11 of our video coaching series is here! In this episode, Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson talks through ways you […]
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Dancing on the Edge of Edgy Conversations: A Dialogue with Dianna Anderson
This event has passed. Watch the recording of Cylient CEO and Master Certified Coach Dianna Anderson, where she talks about […]
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Using Traditional and Coaching-Based Leadership Together (Episode 10 of “How Do I Lead Now?”)
In Episode 10 of our Video Coaching Series: “How Do I Lead Now?” Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson discusses how you […]
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What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say (Episode 9 of “How Do I Lead Now?”)
In Episode 9 of our Video Coaching Series: “How Do I Lead Now?” Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson talks about what […]
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Why Intentions Work Better than Goals Now (Episode 7 of “How Do I Lead Now?”)
In Episode 7 of our Video Coaching Series: “How Do I Lead Now?” we will focus on the differences between […]
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Understanding and Appreciating Worldviews (Episode 8 of “How Do I Lead Now?”)
In Episode 8 of our Video Coaching Series: “How Do I Lead Now?” Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson talks about why […]
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Why the Questions We Ask and Answer Really Matter (Episode 6 of “How Do I Lead Now?”)
In Episode 6 of our Video Coaching Series: “How Do I Lead Now?” Cylient CEO and Master Certified Coach Dianna […]
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Virtual Dialogue: How Do I Get Leaders to Take Coaching-Based Leadership Seriously?
This event, “How Do I Get Leaders to Take Coaching-Based Leadership Seriously?” has passed—watch the dialogue with the recording below! […]
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Empathy is a Power Skill
Empathy: “the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking […]
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How to Make Friends with Fear (Episode 5 of “How Do I Lead Now?”)
Episode 5 of our Video Coaching Series: “How Do I Lead Now?” is here! This week, Cylient CEO and Master […]
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How to Coach Someone Through Fear (Episode 4 of “How Do I Lead Now?”)
Episode 4 of our Video Coaching Series: “How Do I Lead Now?” is here! This week, Cylient CEO and Master […]
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Presentation: Coaching Our Way to a New World
Last week, Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson presented at the virtual CLO Exchange. During this presentation, “Coaching Our Way to a […]
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How to Meet People Where They Are (Episode 3 of “How Do I Lead Now?”)
Episode 3 of our Video Coaching Series: How Do I Lead Now? is here! This week, Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson […]
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Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson Featured in TD Magazine
Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson is featured in the May 2020 issue of TD Magazine with her article, “Create Opportunities for […]
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Virtual Dialogue: Supporting People to Find Focus with “in the Moment” Coaching
This event has passed—watch the dialogue with the recording below! A Dialogue with Dianna Anderson, CEO of Cylient In this […]
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What Kind of Leader Do I Need to Be Now? (Episode 2 of “How Do I Lead Now?”)
Episode 2 of our Video Coaching Series, “How Do I Lead Now?” is here! Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson discusses the […]
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How Do I Lead Now?
“How Do I Lead Now?” is our new weekly Video Coaching Series that offers insight into coaching-based leadership approaches. Tune […]
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The Difference Between Traditional Leadership and Coaching-Based Leadership (Episode 1 of “How Do I Lead Now?”)
In this weekly video coaching series called, “How Do I Lead Now?” Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson will discuss leading in […]
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Article Published on ATD: Our Opportunity to Metabolize Fear Into Potential, Together
Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson recently published an article on the ATD website called, COVID-19: Our Opportunity to Metabolize Fear Into […]
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New Virtual Event: How to Cultivate Calm in a Sea of Uncertainty
This event has passed—watch the event recording below! A Dialogue with Dianna Anderson, CEO of Cylient Right now, there are […]
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How Coaching Helps in Times of Uncertainty
When our worlds are so abruptly disrupted, as is happening right now, the uncertainty can be unsettling. Taking a coaching […]
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Our Coaching Moments® App is Updated!
Our Coaching Moments app is updated to include new features! You can download the app through the App Store or […]
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What’s Your Strategy for Making Coaching a Habit?
For coaching to become your dominant leadership style, it needs to become a habit. Our lives are a reflection of […]
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Life Coach Path Interviews Dianna Anderson
Cylient CEO Dianna Anderson was recently interviewed by the National Coach Academy and Life Coach Path about her journey as […]
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How Do You Keep Your Balance as a Leader?
I learned how to keep my balance the hard way: I used to be a gymnast. Every year in high […]
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Clear Your Focus to Set an Intention for 2020
Welcome to 2020! It’s the new year, which means people are thinking about and reflecting on what they really want […]
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5 Ways to Invite People to Shine
There is light within each of us. Sometimes that light is occluded by life’s circumstances. Like the sun behind the […]
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How Building Your Organization’s Coaching “Muscles” Can Strengthen Performance
Did you know that your organizational culture can increase the likelihood of having a high organizational performance by 97%? That […]
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Coaching Means Business
“In the moment” coaching delivers real, tangible business results. You know that, but do the leaders in your organization? If […]
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How to Build Your Consilience Skills
The term “consilience” was coined by William Whewell to mean a unity of knowledge—or literally, a “jumping together” of knowledge. […]
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New White Paper: The Resounding Cost of a Silent Culture
Are your people avoiding the conversations that really matter? Using stories and data from some of our clients, we published […]
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3 Key Reasons Why Mergers Fail, and What You Can Do About It
While mergers are becoming more and more prevalent, they aren’t any easier get right. A 2019 Deloitte study indicated that […]
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Welcome to the New Cylient Website!
If you’re reading this blog post, you probably noticed something different—our new Cylient website has a whole new look. Besides […]
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5 Real Examples of Coaching-Based Leadership
We recently conducted interviews with participants who had completed Cylient’s Coaching in the Moment workshop, and in some cases, our […]
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Coaching Cultures Explained on the Nice Guys on Business Podcast
Listen to the podcast on coaching cultures here: Last week, I was invited to be a guest on Doug […]
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6 Reasons to Partner with Cylient
When you’re thinking about instilling a coaching culture, we’re here to help. Learn more about Cylient and what we will […]
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What Does “In the Moment” Coaching Actually Look Like?
When I talk about making coaching a way of life, I sometimes get quizzical looks. Or, people say something like, […]
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11 “In the Moment” Coaching Practices to Make You a Better Coach
Do you like to be told what to do? Of course not. Neither does anyone else. Stop “telling and selling,” […]
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A Little Love at Starbucks
I saw the most beautiful act of love at Starbucks last Friday morning. I wish you had seen it too. […]
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Webinar: How to Inspire—Rather Than Stereotype—Gen Z
As Generation Z enters the workforce, let’s use “in the moment” coaching to inspire and support them to achieve their […]
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Why Choosing Real Coaching Really Matters
Coaching is a very confusing word. It’s used to mean a lot of different things and is practiced in many […]
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What is the Goal of a Coaching Culture?
It’s tough to accomplish something if you’re not sure what you’re trying to achieve. When establishing the goal of a […]
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Join Us for Our Webinar, “How to Take a Coaching Approach to Cultivating a Coaching Culture”
How you approach creating a coaching culture tells your organization what a coaching culture is. Make sure you’re sending the right […]
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Unleash Your Organization’s Superpower
What if I told you there was a superpower available that could help create a happier, healthier, more cooperative and […]
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5 Reasons You Need a Coaching Culture in 2019
As you ponder what’s ahead in 2019 for you and your organization, what comes to mind? Along with the hope […]
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Why Building a Coaching Culture Should be a Strategic Imperative—Now!
Is building a coaching culture for your enterprise a strategic priority for your organization in 2019, or does it fall […]
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Cultivate Curiosity with Coaching Cultures
We need to set the record straight: curiosity does not kill cats, but lack of curiosity might. And a lack […]
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If Life is a Game, What Does It Mean to Win?
If life is a game, what does it mean to win? How you define your “game” will define your life. […]
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Weekly Coaching Tips: Ask Insightful Questions
#7 of 7 Coaching Tips for Becoming a Better Coaching-Based Leader Not all questions are created equally. Questions that gather […]
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Weekly Coaching Tips: Expand Your Worldview
#6 of 7 Coaching Tips for Becoming a Better Coaching-Based Leader To be an effective coach, it’s essential that you […]
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Weekly Coaching Tips: Learn to Recognize Fear
#5 of 7 Coaching Tips for Becoming a Better Coaching-Based Leader Fear has many faces. Often, people don’t recognize fear […]
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Weekly Coaching Tips: Quit the Blame Game
#4 of 7 Coaching Tips for Becoming a Better Coaching-Based Leader If you tend to default to blaming or judging […]
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Weekly Coaching Tips: Be Present in the Moment
#3 of 7 Coaching Tips for Becoming a Better Coaching-Based Leader When it comes to coaching “in the moment” you […]
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Weekly Coaching Tips: Stop Trying to Fix Everyone Else’s Problems
#2 of 7 Coaching Tips for Becoming a Better Coaching-Based Leader Do you tend to jump into “fixing” everyone else’s […]
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Weekly Coaching Tips: Look for Potential
#1 of 7 Coaching Tips for Becoming a Better Coaching-Based Leader The goal of coaching is to help others realize […]
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How Pairing Coaching and Complexity Can Rewire Our World
I believe that complexity and “in the moment” coaching were made for each other for the purpose of accelerating transformational […]
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What is the Cost of Conversations that Don’t Happen?
Consider for a moment all of the conversations that are not happening in your organization. How many… Questions are going […]
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Leaders: Avoid This #1 Time Waster
Do you think that telling people what to do is faster than offering “in the moment” coaching? Our numbers say […]
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Why We Need More Meaningful Conversations
It seems like there’s a lot of focus these days on getting people to have difficult conversations. I think that […]
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Try a Coaching in the Moment Pilot
Coaching in the Moment is a unique, PowerPoint-free one-day learning experience that instills practical coaching capabilities at all levels of the organization using Cylient’s simple, yet robust, Untying the Knot® approach to coaching.
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Why “in the Moment” Coaching is the Foundation of a Coaching Culture
People’s day-to-day interactions are what give culture its feel and flavor. Are people caring or curt? Are they honest or […]
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Why Don’t Coaching Cultures Catch On?
In my last blog, I described Cylient’s perspective on what a coaching culture is. Now, let’s look at some of the […]
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Coaching in the Moment® Video-Based Digital Learning Available Now!
We’re excited to announce that our Coaching in the Moment workshop is now available globally as video-based digital learning! The same […]
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What are Coaching Cultures and Why Don’t They Catch On?
I’m back! It’s been ages since I’ve blogged. I have a good excuse, though. I’ve been working with the wonderful […]
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What Does It Mean to Win?
How you define “winning” may be informing your life in ways you are not aware of. And your strategy for […]
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Want to Save Time? Make Coaching Your Leadership Style of Choice
Many people feel that taking a coaching approach to leadership is a nice thing to do, if they have the […]
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The Value of Scaring the Heck Out of Yourself
Personally, I find there is great value in scaring the heck out of myself from time to time. According to […]
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Envision a Coaching Culture for Your Organization
What does a coaching culture look like? To really “see” a coaching culture you have to look through the lens […]
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It’s Time to Talk About Coaching-Based Leadership as a Strategic Imperative
If you’re not talking with your senior business leaders about the strategic imperative of coaching-based leadership, I personally think it’s […]
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The Transformative Power of Pain
Recently I attended a luncheon for a fabulous non-profit called Count the Kicks. (If you know anyone who is pregnant be […]
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The Next Twenty Years of Coaching
How time flies! This year the International Coaching Federation (ICF)—the largest and most recognized professional association for coaches—celebrates its 20th […]
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Love is in the Air, But is it in Your Culture?
The number of Super Bowl commercials expressing themes of love and compassion was both stunning and encouraging. Whether it was […]
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Change as Battle or Bridge; The Choice is Yours
All too often I observe people trying to lead significant change—in people, and in organizations—by arguing, cajoling and sometimes trying […]
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“We” is the Answer
“As a manager, I am expected have all the right answers” is one of the most limiting, often damaging, beliefs […]
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Is It Time to Upgrade Your Coaching Program?
It seems like every time you turn around something needs to be upgraded. We’re constantly adding new bells and whistles […]
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Leading from Your Center
I think the most powerful thing you can do to evolve your influence and impact is to cultivate centeredness. By […]
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Growing a Coaching Culture
Growing a coaching culture is an exciting, rich and sometimes daunting experience. It’s a bit like planning and then creating […]
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Like It Or Not, You’re in Sales!
Leading any kind of change effort is, in its essence, about getting people to buy into and embrace new ideas. […]
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Creating Insight: The Key for Team Success
People work in teams. And yet, the sum of their efforts is often less than their individual contributions. Why is […]
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Be The Story
It’s not enough just to tell the story of the change initiative you’re leading, you have to truly believe it, […]
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When Taking the Order Isn’t the Right Answer
Sometimes doing what you’re told isn’t the way to go. You know it. It doesn’t feel right. But what do […]
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Grow Innovation with a Coaching Culture
Innovation begins with a person’s worldview. How you look at the world opens or closes the doors of possibility.
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Triangulation is an Expensive Habit
Triangulation is an insidious habit that erodes trust and creates gridlock in organizations. When people choose to talk to their […]
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Coaching Moments® App: A Coach in Your Pocket
Coaching Moments is available for Apple at the App Store and for Android on Google Play. Do you ever just […]
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Creating Engagement with Stories
Everyone loves a good story. We’re wired to resonate with storylines, particularly when the emotional thread is compelling. Stories can […]
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Max’s Mission: Love and Be Loved
Max, our 120-pound Akita, has a mission in life: He’s here to Love and Be Loved. He can’t help it. […]
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New Talk to Inspire the New Walk
Getting people to walk a new walk may mean you need to talk a new talk. Talent management is all […]
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Got a Dream?
I’ll bet you do. You might not have told anyone about it. You might not believe that you can make […]
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Don’t Get Mad, Get Insightful
Into every change agent’s life will come non-believers, skeptics, and vocal critics. They’re your evidence that you’re creating real change. […]
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Making Coaching-Based Leadership a Priority
Are any or all of these perennial refrains in your organization? “Our people aren’t engaged, they don’t seem to care.” […]
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What’s Your One Thing for this Year?
“What’s the one thing I can do, such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?” That’s […]
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Sharing Stories
I think that people are a lot like jewels. Sometimes you have to hold them up to the light to […]
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Let Your Light Shine
With the passing of Nelson Mandela it’s tempting to reflect upon the achievements and contributions of your own life and […]
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Putting Down The Knife
They cut like a knife, those little jabs, disses made in “jest,” thinly veiled criticisms, and observations offered with an […]
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Calling All Earth Angels
Are you an Earth Angel? That’s what I call people who notice when others need a bit of help to […]
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It Is What It Is
It’s amazing how much pain and angst we create for ourselves by holding on to our cherished expectations about who […]
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Giving Leadership a Chiropractic Adjustment
If it feels like your leadership is missing the mark, for you and for the people you serve, perhaps it’s […]
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Kin or Clans: What Will Your Merger Become?
Mergers are a lot like marriages. The merging companies must both give up a bit of themselves in order to […]
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Constructive Versus Destructive Courage
I cringe when I hear someone say, “I’m just going to tell him …” intoned with a determined bravado. Odds […]
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Safe Isn’t Safe Anymore
It used to be that playing it safe was a good strategy for keeping your job and getting ahead. Those days […]
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Cultivating Everyday Courage
Courage doesn’t need to be heroic to make a difference. It’s the small acts of courage that happen day after […]
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Meet Courage with Courage
I was seated with my husband at a gate in the Des Moines airport waiting for a flight when an […]
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Taking the Sting Out of Being Judged
It’s not the risk of doing something differently that gets in my way, it’s the possibility of being personally judged […]
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Fifty Shades of Fear
Fear is anything but gray. Fear’s many colorful expressions often go unrecognized, even in ourselves. We may think, and say, […]
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Making Friends with Fear
What’s your relationship with fear—friend or foe? Fear can be a trusted friend who invites you to stretch the boundaries […]
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Coaching is a Gift to the World
My professional mission is making coaching a way of life for our planet. Here’s why that matters to me, and […]
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Coaching is a Gift
When coaching is offered from a place of curiosity, compassion and courage – with the intention of helping others realize […]
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Insight is the Alchemy that Creates Change-Able™ Organizations
Insight is like magic. It turns challenges into learning and the sense of being stuck into engagement. It’s the elixir […]
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Through the Eyes of a Coaching-Based Leader
The coaching-based leader looks at the world through a different lens than his problem solving cousin. He sees problems around […]
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Building coaching skills
Coaching: Is It a Bunny or a Tiger in Your Organization?
I recall an Accenture ad featuring a fluffy white bunny painted with tiger stripes looking meekly at the camera. The […]
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Change Agent as Tour Guides
In many ways, the complex world that is emerging all around us is a very new place. The environment, the […]
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Leading Through Complexity
Complexity requires a different kind of leadership. We’re still exploring what leadership means in our increasingly fluid world. In order […]
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Complexity Keeps Changing the Game
Complexity has transformed our organizations and industries from being more like board games with established rules, to resembling video games […]
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Complexity is Re-Wiring Your World
It wasn’t that long ago that our business environments were complicated, but still fairly predictable. Back in the 90’s when […]
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Why We Need a Different Dialogue
Our goal at Cylient is to ignite a different dialogue. What does that mean? And why does it matter? If […]
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Cylient Rebranded
Like many organizations, we found that our work has evolved considerably over the last few years, however, how we shared […]
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Implementing a coaching culture
Millennials: Coach Them or Risk Losing Them
Millenials, the generation poised to become 75% of the workforce by 2025, demand our attention. And they may very well head out the door of your organization if they don’t get the attention they’re looking for.
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Coaching as a way of life
Playing with Change
Play isn’t just for kids 🙂 Change often grinds to a halt when people feel pressured to “get it right” […]
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Saying What Needs to be Said
Are you a role model of the coaching culture you aspire to build? Coaching cultures are built on trust and […]
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Culture Happens in the Conversation
When you get right down to it, the culture of an organization is experienced in the conversations that people are […]
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The Three “C’s” of a Coaching Perspective
Coaching begins with a coaching perspective. How you look at situations determines whether you see the coaching opportunities that are […]
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Coaching Changes Everything™
When I started coaching 18 years ago I was surprised to find that, regardless of the nature of the coaching […]
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Work with the Willing
When we work with clients to instill coaching-based leadership into the fabric of organizations invariably one of the first questions […]
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Choosing Between Judgment and Change
We want to change the things that bother us the most. We don’t need to look too far to find […]
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Finding Peace in Difficult Situations
One of my favorite coaching questions is, “What would you need to say or do to be at peace with […]
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Real Coaching = Real Engagement = Real Competitive Advantage
Early on in one of our Coaching in the Moment® workshops this week a participant looked at me with all […]
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There is no Vision Without Conviction
For the past 20 years or so business leaders have derided the “vision thing.” The world is moving too fast […]
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Cultivating Fearlessness
I recently read an article based on the newly released book, The Corner Office, in which New York Times columnist […]
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Authentic Influence
The role of the change agent is not an easy one. Often the people who see the possibilities for change […]
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Change has Changed
I remember learning Lewin’s model of change in my Psychology 101 class. The model has three steps to describe the […]
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Consilient Organizations
The level of complexity in our world is rising exponentially, and there’s no end in sight. Our challenge is to […]
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