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Coaching: Top Skills for Leaders During Disruption
The word “coach” on its own may conjure up images of a whistle-wearing leader in gym clothes carrying a clipboard but coaching today is much more than that. There are executive coaches, accountability coaches, health coaches and many more. Coaching is different than mentoring, separate from therapy and distinct from training and consulting. So, what is coaching?
During my certification as a coach I adopted this definition, “coaching is a growth-promoting relationship that elicits autonomous m…
How I Became an Informercial Spokesperson at age 21
It was 1997 and I was in working on my undergraduate degree in communication. I just landed a job at a radio station in Fort Lauderdale where I sat in a 10x6’ room with 5-6 other people calling loyal listeners to survey them on the latest radio playlist. It wasn’t glamourous but as a communication major I was proud to finally have a job “in my field” at a popular radio station.
Having entrepreneurial parents, I lived through both the prosperity of being a business owner as well as the struggle…