Sign up for the CO2 Partners Newsletter
Executive Coaching and Business Coaching Image

Featured Articles

  • 9
    9 Limiting Beliefs to Avoid

    9 Limiting Beliefs to Avoid

    These 9 limiting beliefs will hold you back from leading life that you desire and deserve.

  • 3
    5-15 Report: The Report for People Who Have No Time for Reports

    5-15 Report: The Report for People Who Have No Time for Reports

    The 5-15 reports is a simple concept. The report should take no more than 5 minutes to read and no more than 15 minutes to write.

  • 0
    Choosing Criteria for Effective Decision Making

    Choosing Criteria for Effective Decision Making

    It is strategic planning season for businesses. As an executive coach and strategist I am spending a great deal of my time working with companies on their planning for 2011. It is always amazing to me how many executives have decision making criteria in their head to evaluate what is or is not a good decision. And yet what they do not due is build this capability into the organization as a whole. Additionally, when you begin to be deliberate about the criteria for decision making you move from unconsciously competent to consciously competent.

  • Other Recent Articles

  • 0
    Leaders Ask Questions

    Leaders Ask Questions

    Few Employees Want to Be Told What to Do Only six percent of employees wish to be told what to do by their boss, according to a survey by CO2 Partners.  The overwhelming majority, 94%, prefer to be asked questions by their supervisor.  The directive workplace has been in decline since the 1970s.  Today it’s [...]

  • 1
    Culture Model

    Culture Model

    What type of culture do you have–Control, Collaborate, Compete, or Create?
    It’s okay if you fall somewhere in between two of these types of cultures (flexing across one dimension–vertical or horizontal), but if you’re unable to locate your culture definitively in this model, you run the risk of being pulled in too many directions at once (of being drawn and quartered).

  • 0
    3 Forms of Assumption Bias

    3 Forms of Assumption Bias

    Assumption Bias restricts the possibility of change for both the leader and followers. It acts like a steel safe, locking in a static belief system and locking out the possible alternatives. The greater the power leaders have, the more vulnerable they are to assumption bias because their coworkers are unlikely to challenge them. Here are [...]

  • 3
    The Dirty Little Secret About Grit

    The Dirty Little Secret About Grit

    I love the saying, “It only took me twenty years to be an overnight success.” Recognition from others can come in an instant, but building a success often takes years. And it takes grit.

  • 1
    3 Ways to Improve Your Organization’s Culture

    3 Ways to Improve Your Organization’s Culture

    We have all heard the phrase “Culture eats strategy for lunch (or breakfast, or dinner).” But what exactly does it mean and what, as a business leader, can you do to improve your organization’s culture?

  • 2
    7 Executive Coaching Types

    7 Executive Coaching Types

    From Therapeutic to Performance As executive coaching continues to expand, the field is shifting away from a therapeutic model to a greater emphasis on business performance, leadership, and communication. Coaching has already changed significantly since it emerged barely 15 years ago. Coaches initially came from psychology or counseling, and their mission was to solve a [...]

  • 1
    10 Frequent Misconceptions About Executive Coaching

    10 Frequent Misconceptions About Executive Coaching

    Despite the growing popularity of executive coaching, common misconceptions persist. These misconceptions revolve around the nature of the work executive coaches do and the results they’re expected to achieve. It’s time to uproot the most persistent and pernicious of these misconceptions. 10 Frequent Misconceptions About Executive Coaching:  “I don’t have issues and don’t need executive [...]

  • 0
    Rethinking Leadership Infographic

    Rethinking Leadership Infographic

    Rethinking Leadership Infographic was developed by Sammi Cohen. To develop your own infographic, reach out to Sammi Cohen. Rethinking Leadership In working with leaders, I have found asking questions is a sorely undervalued technique. Many equate asking questions with losing power, looking like a fool, or admitting defeat. Some believe that asking questions will simply waste [...]

  • 0
    Going to Work vs. Getting Your Work to Go

    Going to Work vs. Getting Your Work to Go

    If your work or routine needs revitalizing, pack up and go somewhere else. Go to a coffee shop, the public library, a local art center, the park, even a hotel lobby. You might not only get new ideas and new routines, you might also get new customers or contacts.

  • 0
    Power Poisoning

    Power Poisoning

    Don’t let power–or the quest for more power–derail your leadership. Keep yourself grounded with Emotional Intelligence and Servant Leadership; these leadership guides will remind you of the importance of generosity and community–both to your development and to your organization’s.

  • Archives: 
Executive Coaching and Business Coaching Image