02 Sep

ZOOM Session 022 – How Activity-Stacking Saves Time by Doubling Output

This is not a coaching session on multi-tasking.  REPEAT: This is not about multi-tasking.  Multi-tasking is impossible and worst and horribly inefficient at best.  This is about training your brain to use the same time period to accomplish two tasks with no extra effort.  When we start looking for how...
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02 Sep

ZOOM Session 015 – Waiting Tables: How to Minimize Duties to Maximize Impact

Getting ahead in this competitive marketplace means knowing when we aren't adding value. To make the biggest impact, it's important to recognize when we're just waiting tables. For Christians who believe in servant leadership, this goes against our training. After all, aren't we supposed to be willing to do even...
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30 Aug

ZOOM Session 016 – The Top 10 Things That Ruin Careers

It's really easy to think of catastrophic blunders that bring an immediate end to a job.  I imagine punching a boss or embezzling money or drug use at work. That's not what this top-10 list covers.  In this video we review those subtle things we do, mostly without even realizing...
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30 Aug

ZOOM Session 013 – Unconscious Incompetence in Emotionally Intelligent Leaders

In Deuteronomy 29:29 it says "the secret things belong to the Lord." There is a profound wisdom in acknowledging how little we actually know.  As a famous theologian named Thomas Watson once said, "The greatest part of our knowledge is not as much as the least part of our...
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16 Aug

ZOOM Session 014 – H.A.L.T. – Overcoming Negative Emotion at Work

We all experience negative emotion in the workplace.  I think it fair to say we all realize negative emotions don't serve our career very well.  In this group executive coaching session I explore a new way to consider the possible causes of the negative emotion and some really fantastic...
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16 Aug

ZOOM Session 017 – Your Next Move…Make It Strategic

Few professionals, let alone Christian professionals, take the time to plan out a career path.  It takes strategic thinking, like you might find in a chess match.  In this video I take examples from three chess grand-masters to parallel with career aspirations.  As it says in Proverbs 21:5, the...
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19 Jul

ZOOM Session 019 – Is it Right to Suppress Our Emotions at Work?

There's a part of us that wants to vent at work when things aren't right. Something inside, however, holds us back.  We choose, instead, to suppress how we're feeling instead of expressing it.  Is this the right thing to do?  The truth is, other factors are at work when...
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07 Jul

ZOOM Session 012 – Pain-Gain Model of Decision Making

When making difficult decisions, that kinds that have a large impact on our future, it can be hard to see how we get in our own way.  We feel stuck or confused and it happens based on the four types of internal blockers (Fear, Assumptions, Interpretations or Limiting Beliefs). ...
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26 Jun

ZOOM Session 011 – Self-Deception Will Cost You

This is the 11th video conference session in my series of FREE Saturday morning Group Coaching sessions. In a joint-study conducted by Duke and Harvard Business School, researchers wanted to find out the extent people go to deceive themselves.  They also explored how far people go to preserve...
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