Every year around now the time honored topics of New Year’s Resolutions and whether or not to make them comes up. People debate the merits of these oft-made, and nearly as oft-broken, promises to ourselves and, increasingly, decide just to skip the whole business altogether. But I’m an advocate of the much maligned New Year’s […]
Everywhere I go, from coaching sessions to professional meetings, in large corporations and small nonprofits, I encounter people suffering from the pace of modern life. Increased illness, lower productivity, damaged relationships, and waning satisfaction are the prices that we pay. Earlier this month, fellow executive coach and Georgetown Leadership Coaching Program faculty member, Scott Eblin, […]
An article last week in the Wall Street Journal focused on the effect of adequate sleep – and sleep deprivation – on work performance. Pointing out famous short-sleepers, such as the late Margaret Thatcher, who famously operated on far less than the often recommended eight hours sleep per night, the article makes the case that […]
Last year, I wrote a blog post on eight key differences between managing and leading. I recently had occasion to think of these distinctions again when a coaching client asked me how a person could lead a large team without spending all their time in the details. She had nine people on her team, which […]
In the management and leadership classes that I teach, I’ve proven time and again that even leaders just starting out understand the benefits of delegating, the consequences of failing to delegate, and even some of the reasons that they don’t delegate. Yet the need to delegate more effectively comes up repeatedly on the list of […]
We are certain that leaders – at least on an intellectual level – understand the benefits of effective delegation. Yet too many delegate too little. Would we delegate more if we truly understood the impact of NOT delegating? Perhaps. Here’s just a few of the consequences that arise out of a failure to delegate: You, […]
As leaders, we know that we should delegate so that we can spend our time more efficiently and give others in our organizations the opportunity to learn. We also know that we don’t delegate nearly as much as we should. We even know that there are negative consequences associated with not delegating more and we […]
Lately, there has been a lot of interest from leaders who want to learn to coach. We’ve been asked to do programs – from one-hour conference presentations to multi-day training programs – to help leaders acquire coaching skills. Leaders recognize that there is less and less use for old command-and-control styles of leading, and they […]
I bet you think you know what respect means. After all, don’t we all know when others are treating us with respect, or with disrespect? Have you been watching news coverage of the Aaron Hernandez arraignment? If the Assistant DA’s version of the story is true, two men are dead and a promising career is […]
Ever notice how hardwired we are to respond to someone who is positive? Want proof? Doesn’t your heart lift just a bit every time you happen to catch a few bars of Happy? You know it. “Because I’m happy, Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof, Because I’m happy, Clap along […]
Lessons for leaders in Donald Trump’s surprising win
This week’s US Presidential election represented one of the most stunning political upsets that most of us alive today have ever witnessed.
Regardless of how you...
Marie Peeler of Peeler Associates to Speak at ECCF’s Institute for Trustees, March 25
PEMBROKE and HAMILTON, MA, ISSUED MARCH 10, 2017… Marie Peeler, founder and principal of Peeler Associates, an executive coaching and leadership development firm working with individuals and...