Are you Accepting Good Enough?

Are you a Leader who accepts Good Enough?   If you are accepting status quo as good enough then you can bet that you are leading your team to nowhere. Challenging the current state of affairs and questioning the way “it is normally ...

What is the Winning Formula for Hiring and Building Best Teams

Leaders all over the world agree that there is no single ultimate winning formula for hiring and building the best teams.  Team Success is like money success. Just when you figure out how to make ends meet they move the ends! Teams ...

Be the Leader Coach

When any employee or team member approaches you with an issue, he/she has either challenges to overcome or goals to achieve.  In either case,  remember that the receptors on their thinking cell’s membrane are constricted and they ...

Why People Have Trouble Taking Advice

Have you ever had a sick friend or family member who would not accept the advice that you have given them?  Why does this seem to happen? Some of the reasons could be that they have very little clarity due to unconstructive patterns ...

Hidden Messages from Water

Have you ever wondered what would be the result of a simple experiment of you pasting words like Love and Hate on two separate bottles and freezing the same? If your further looked through a microscope, like Masaru Emoto, you would see ...

Our Animal Executive Co-Coaches

Animals and pets are God’s gift to human kind. They love us unconditionally.  They bring us comfort, laughter, joy and companionship that no human being can replace.  Take Rajiv and Bruno, for example. They live in Delhi, India. ...

What did Stephen Covey say about Leadership? (Part II)

You will remember our discussion from Part I of this article about the importance of creating a win-win situation in the workplace where the employees feel greatly valued and respected. Stephen Covey greatly emphasize “Win-Win” in his ...

What did Stephen Covey say about Leadership? (Part I)

One day one of my Executive Coaching Clients called up for his usual coaching session. When asked what he wanted to work on he almost whispered, “Betska, today I want to work on becoming more charming.” One might have thought that he ...

What did The Buddha say about Teamwork?

I was coaching a European Executive late last year who told me that while 30 people are supposed to show up for a monthly Senior Management Team meeting, often only 4 people show up. And, if they do show up, some don’t actively ...

What did Steve Jobs say about Leadership?

In my latest book, The “God” in Coaching, a personal development book, I declared that I was a rebel! My entire life I have been the curious cat … driving people crazy with my questions … challenging people to rise up and truly be the ...