coaching Archives

Anita Levesque

4 months

Warren Buffett’s Simple Definition of Leadership That Most Managers Still Get Wrong

Source: inc.com Buffett’s leadership test is quite simple. And yet most bosses fail it. Here’s why. Warren Buffett is famous for many reasons, including his simple and timeless wisdom, and this quote is no exception. Often attributed to Buffett and quoted in Tom Rath’s Strengths-Based Leadership, Buffett said something that sounds obvious at first—and then gets uncomfortable the longer you sit with it.

Anita Levesque

7 months

6 Low-Lift Ways to Coach Employees in the Flow of Work

Source: hbr.org Many leaders find coaching daunting. It feels time-consuming, intangible, and far removed from the hard metrics they’re used to managing. But coaching can be a flexible, everyday leadership behavior—not a rigid framework.

Anita Levesque

1 year

Promoted to a leadership role? Here’s how to make the ‘player-to-coach’ transition seamlessly

Source: fastcompany.com The four main traps and how to avoid them “Who am I to tell them how to make decisions?” This anxiety-induced thought played like a broken record in my head as my first leadership training event approached in my new role as a training director. Talking in front of 40 leaders, most of whom were older than my ripe old age of 30 at the time felt like the perfect opportunity for them to see right through my lack of expertise and expose me as the fraud I was.