Tag: feedback
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Winning: Family Business Dad Learning to Give Direct and Productive Feedback to Family Members!
Yesterday was one of those days that gave me great joy as a family business coach! Part of our process is to teach families how to have quarterly reviews of goals and business results.…
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Ignoring poor performers in the family business can ruin your team
Ignoring poor performance can do serious harm, not only to your team, but to the player who is under performing. In the family business setting, it can often feel like you have to tell…
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Deliberate Practice – Get Real by Getting Feedback
One of the greatest disservices you can do to yourself and your team is to not be honest with yourself about how others perceive you. I know how frightening it can be to put…
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From screaming to calmly taking 360 feedback
Here is a great article about all things family business. References to fights of biblical proportion, to finding ways to being a business first family. I thought the best quote came from West Mathison who said…
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It Doesn’t Have to be Perfect
I can’t emphasize this enough! Do not wait to start coaching until you think you know how to do it “just right.” Trust the coaching process. Your early attempts at coaching will surprise you…
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Set Up Structures
What I mean by structures are one-on-one and team meetings, and regularly set coaching sessions. You could make it a part of your company’s culture to have an “after-action review” after significant events. Those…
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After the Fact
This is a very common form of coaching. Professional athletes will review the game tape later and then identify what kinds of mistakes were made during the performance. Musicians in an orchestra might listen…
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Do Not Wait Because…
Do not wait because you are not confident how the coaching will turn out! Undoubtedly, the number one thing I hear from leaders as to why they did not coach someone, even though there…
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Deliberate Practice – Be Open to Feedback
This week’s deliberate practice is about being open to feedback. Last week I was filming my blog in my office (I live and work here with a great client and friend in a…
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Deliberate Practice – Talk to Key Employees
Here’s some highlight film from this week working with executives all over the country. I work with a construction company in Texas and they have a deliberate practice of annual performance reviews. They…
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The Best Play of the Year Goes Unnoticed All Too Often
I can’t tell you how many times I see this scenario play out. My client this morning recounted an exciting moment and breakthrough with his boss. His boss spoke in their meeting in a…
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Reviewing the game film real-life lessons from the leadership “field”
While coaching an executive in Wisconsin I interviewed his boss to get his feedback as part of the executive coaching process. In the conversation, the boss tells me a pretty significant piece of feedback about…
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