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5 Ways to Identify Your Next Generation Leaders and How to Train Them Up

Bea Fields — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:54:19 +0000

As many of you are aware, our world is at a critical point in history. Many studies are estimating that in the next 10-12 years, approximately 45-50% of the workforce in the United States alone will be gone, and most of the workers are from the Baby Boomer generation. They will be leaving in droves in leadership roles in business, education, government, the medical field and the world of non profits.

Many people argue that Generation X will fill these leadership roles and that all will be fine. Well…if you do the math, you will find our three main demographics in our world today include these numbers:

Baby Boomers: Approximately 70 million
Generation X: Approximately 45 million
Generation Y: Approximately 80 million

If you look at these figures, it is obvious that once the Baby Boomer Generation is out of the workforce, we are most definitely going to have a shortage of leadership talent.

I speak with young men and women under the age of 30 every day, and many tell me that they have been thrust into early leadership positions without any training, coaching or shadowing. They show up for work and hear “Hey…Margaret…Bob’s last day is tomorrow, … Read the rest of the post

Executive Coaching: 10 Critical Points to Drive Behavioral Change

Bea Fields — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:34:36 +0000

When coaching an executive client, many coaches believe that in 3-6 months, magic is going to happen. Some coaches believe that simply because a coach is involved in the process, a client is going to change for a lifetime. Maybe…but not so often does this really happen. While this MAY be true, there are so many factors to consider: the team members, board members, culture of the company, home life, physical health and the list just goes on and on.

I have written out 10 key components that I believe are critical to helping your client create behavioral change…not just for 3 months but for a lifetime.

1. When coaching a business owner or executive level leader, you must get involvement and commitment from all stakeholders around the person you are coaching. This means the boss, employees, team members, colleagues and family members. They have to be supportive of the change and not throwing sarcasm and jokes into the topic of coaching.

2. It is critical to get feedback from other people about this behavior by performing a full review (360 degree review) with the key stakeholders who truly know the client. The client cannot see himself or herself, but … Read the rest of the post

Are You Slipping Back Into Old Habits? Fear May Be Your Issue

Bea Fields — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:27:24 +0000

Today, Mandy Schumaker and I added two posts to TOUGH COACHING related to a leader falling back on old habits or regressing as opposed to moving forward.

Have Your Leadership Skills Regressed by Mandy Schumaker

5 Strategies to Pull Your Butt Out of a Fear Slump by Bea Fields

Please remember: We will be offering our TOUGH COACHING program starting March 6 with a client who is both a CEO and an attorney (has dual careers) on the topic of someone who has been coached and has now slipped back into old habits. This is going to be a fabulous call!

And…if fear is holding you back from something big, OR if you feel you are regressing in life or business, please take the time to read these articles. They do bring light into the dark shadows.

Quote for the day: It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein

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Leadership Coaching: How to Know When Your Client is Stuck and How to Get Them Unstuck

Bea Fields — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:30:12 +0000

Over the past ten years, I have provided leadership coaching services for a large number of clients…I think over 1200 at this point. I say this not to brag, but to give some credibility to this post. Because of the number of clients I have coached, I can smell it a mile away when a client is stuck. I can usually tell in the first interview when a client is truly stuck in an old pattern and not willing to work on, let achieve a big/audacious goal.

So, here are a few of the signs and approaches you can use to help “unstick” your leadership coaching clients:

Sign: The client comes in with a BIG goal that they have been trying to achieve for over three years with no movement. This is often common if a client is in a corporate structure that dictates what they can and cannot do, so you have to do a bit of digging on the cultural side of things. But…at the end of the day, if a client has been going through a revolving door for over three years and have not yet hit the mark…they are stuck. I am being generous here…the stuck … Read the rest of the post

TED Video: Barry Schwartz on Doing the Right Thing

Bea Fields — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:57:35 +0000

This is so odd that this video popped into my email today. I was just talking with a client yesterday about “doing what is right and virtuous vs. doing what the corporation/society WANT us to do”. Barry Schwartz really hits the nail on the head in this video…following our wisdom about the right thing to do is key to our happiness and well being.

If you don’t like what you see going on around you, speak up…it’s now or may be never!

4 steps to banish bad habits: Interview of Jeffrey Schwartz about his upcoming book YOU ARE NOT YOUR BRAIN (westallen.typepad.com)
Ted Williams: Ohio Homeless Man with Perfect Radio Voice (VIDEO) (blippitt.com)