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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Executive Coaching, Personal Growth, Thought Pieces, tags: adviser, advisory board, angel investor, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, Executive Coaching, Governance, investing, investor, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, Life Coaching, management assessment, non-profit, nonprofit, Personal Growth, spirituality, turnaround, Turnaround Management, Venture Capital
Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com
Many of my coaching engagements begin with a focus on the kinds of questions that a client has been asking themselves. It may seem strange at first to suggest that it is the question rather than the answer which is important; but that is the case more often than not. The seminal indicator that this is the case is the ‘why’ question. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Blog, Executive Coaching, Leadership, Life Coaching, Personal Growth, tags: adviser, advisory board, angel investor, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, Executive Coaching, Governance, investing, investor, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, Life Coaching, management assessment, non-profit, nonprofit, Personal Growth, spirituality, turnaround, Turnaround Management, Venture Capital
Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com
The last decade has seen a major shift in attitude towards executive coaching. Ten years ago the most likely engagement would have been with a client who was having serious problems. Organizations tended to hire executive coaches when one or more of their people was either having or causing serious problems. Many would wait until things had progressed to such a state that damage control was the only option. In those days, executive coaches were, more often than not, crisis managers. But things have really changed. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Executive Coaching, Personal Growth, tags: adviser, advisory board, angel investor, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, Executive Coaching, Governance, investing, investor, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, Life Coaching, management assessment, non-profit, nonprofit, Personal Growth, spirituality, turnaround, Turnaround Management, Venture Capital
Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com
Many of my coaching clients first approach me with a specific need. They want to mitigate a particular behavior, break through a barrier or make a change that has long been needed. We do focus our work on that need and, initially, meeting those needs takes up most of our energy. But very soon they come to realize that there are many, unanticipated benefits that flow from working with a first-rate coach. Here are just a few my clients have identified: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Executive Coaching, Personal Growth, Thought Pieces, tags: adviser, advisory board, angel investor, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, Executive Coaching, Governance, investing, investor, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, Life Coaching, management assessment, non-profit, nonprofit, Personal Growth, spirituality, turnaround, Turnaround Management, Venture Capital
Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com
Most of my coaching clients come to me with some sort of change in mind. A very few are responding to a general feeling of dissatisfaction. Most want to change something about themselves or their lives. The depth and detail of understanding that they have is one the early indicators of what kind of progress we are going to be able to manage. The more they have come to realize that a change is necessary, the better the progress we will be able to make. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Executive Coaching, Life Coaching, Personal Growth, Thought Pieces, tags: adviser, advisory board, angel investor, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, Executive Coaching, Governance, investing, investor, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, Life Coaching, management assessment, mentoring, non-profit, nonprofit, Personal Growth, self-assessment, spirituality, turnaround, Turnaround Management, Venture Capital
Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com
One of the first steps in my mentoring engagements is to have the client begin to understand that their life is a work in progress. The deeper we get into it, the more detailed that understanding becomes. Then there is the recognition that life is a process which begins at birth and continues until death. But recognition is only the first step. It is an important one to be sure, but the best comes after that. We can begin to focus on the value of each of us and the positive impact that we can have on the lives of others. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Executive Coaching, Life Coaching, Personal Growth, Thought Pieces, tags: adviser, advisory board, angel investor, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, Executive Coaching, Governance, investing, investor, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, Life Coaching, management assessment, non-profit, nonprofit, Personal Growth, personal vision, self-improvement, spirituality, turnaround, Turnaround Management, Venture Capital
Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com
Lots of advice is available. The common mantra is ‘get a personal vision’. But the truth is that you already have one. Sure, it may be out of focus and counterproductive. But you do have one. Many would call it your ‘self image’. It is how you decide what you will do and what you will not do. This self image sets your expectations. It holds your private vision of you in the world. It is there with you when you wake up every morning and as you go to sleep each night. So, the question is not whether you have a personal vision. The question is ‘do you have the right personal vision?” Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Advisory, Executive Coaching, Venture Capital, tags: adviser, advisory board, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, Executive Coaching, Governance, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, Life Coaching, management assessment, non-profit, nonprofit, Personal Growth, spirituality, turnaround, Turnaround Management
Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com
Most founders think that the process of selling their company is the most difficult – but that is not the principal reason that companies do not transact. Unfortunately, many founders discover much too late that they are the reason.
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The closing table is no place to finally come to terms with the fact that you are about to sell your interest in a business that you may have spend years building up. It is no place to come to terms with the fact that tomorrow morning you will wake up and either have no place you have to be or nowhere near the authority over the people you built into a team. Coming to terms with the facts of life may mean that: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Blog, Executive Coaching, Personal Growth, tags: adviser, advisor, advisory board, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, Executive Coaching, Governance, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, Life Coaching, management assessment, non-profit, nonprofit, Personal Growth, spirituality, turnaround, Turnaround Management
Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com
When you awake each morning, the day presents you with literally thousands of possibilities. Human existence is chocked full of possibilities. But the important questions is, what is probable? And the more important question is, how can you make the right possible things probable – how can you select the right probabilities from all those possibilities? This is one of those areas when more education can be a real liability.
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Executive coaching my way leads me to work with highly educated and literate people. Most of my clients have a Master’s degree. In some ways, working with these people is a joy. For example, they have been trained to understand and work with complex ideas. Their grasp of the language is such that conversations about complex ideas are possible. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Blog, Executive Coaching, tags: adviser, advisor, advisory board, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, Executive Coaching, Governance, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, Life Coaching, management assessment, non-profit, nonprofit, Personal Growth, spirituality, turnaround, Turnaround Management
Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com
The deer in the headlights – we all know the story – the car rounds the bend on a dark night – the deer stands frozen in the glare and cannot move even as its death approaches. Humans sometmes act this way – and sometimes with similar consequences.
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Most of my work is done with middle-market companies – by that I mean well established operations with a proven senior team that has worked through most of the big inter-personnel issues and found a way to work productively together. Under the leadership of a CEO who values open communication and camaraderie – and does not tolerate turf battles and information hording. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dr. Earl R. Smith II in Executive Coaching, Leadership, tags: adviser, advisor, advisory board, board of directors, CEO, chairman, coaching, consulting, director, Executive Coaching, Governance, Leadership, leadership assessment, leadership coaching, leadership development, leadership styles, Life Coaching, management assessment, non-profit, nonprofit, Personal Growth, spirituality, turnaround, Turnaround Management
Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
www.Dr-Smith.com
Self-knowledge is the crucial component of self-improvement. How can you improve what you don’t understand? Of course, the other side of that coin is ‘what you don’t understand can cause you great harm.
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The Perfectionist: During a recent coaching engagement, I came to realize that a CEO I was working with had a tendency to accentuate the negative. She was heavily committed to building her first successful business – driven to the point of almost maniacal focus on correcting the mistakes of her team. Her behavior was corroding the enthusiasm of her team. I decided to arrange a one-on-one session focused on her management style. Read the rest of this entry »
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