Tag Archive: questions

Ask the Enneagram Coach, Part 7

Ginger Lapid-Bogda's The Enneagram in Business portal contains an "Ask the Coach" feature, where a coach of each Type answers the same question about coaching, to give a flavor of the different possible perspectives. Ginger asked me to ...

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Ask the Enneagram Coach, Part 6

Ginger Lapid-Bogda's The Enneagram in Business portal contains an "Ask the Coach" feature, where a coach of each Type answers the same question about coaching, to give a flavor of the different possible perspectives. Ginger asked me to be the Type 9 ...

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Ask the Enneagram Coach, Part 5

Ginger Lapid-Bogda's The Enneagram in Business portal contains an "Ask the Coach" feature, where a coach of each Type answers the same question about coaching, to give a flavor of the different possible perspectives. Ginger asked me to be the Type 9 – or ...

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Ask the Enneagram Coach, Part 4

Ginger Lapid-Bogda's The Enneagram in Business portal contains an "Ask the Coach" feature, where a coach of each Type answers the same question about coaching, to give a flavor of the different possible perspectives. Ginger asked me to be the Type 9 – or Peacemaker – representative on this panel. ...

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The Leadership of Letting Go, Part 9

The second path to curiosity for leadership is to view things from another person's perspective. It's a common pitfall not to do this. In a recent coaching conversation, a manger was telling me about ...

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The Leadership of Letting Go, Part 8

Managers have answers; leaders ask questions. Lawyers only ask a question (in court) when they already know the answer; leaders ask questions to which they don't have the answer. They are curious. This curiosity pays dividends. By asking ...

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Shoulda, coulda, woulda …

Michael Bungay Stanier has just posed the question Should you be working on vacation? on his Great Work blog, as part of a follow-up to an entry on the Brazen Careerist blog:  I’ll Be Working On Vacation: What’s Your Idea Of Work/Life Balance? "Should you ...": My life used to be full ...

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