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behavior change
The Bicycle Test: What Great Leadership Coaching Actually Looks Like
A client told me something recently that I haven’t stopped thinking about. We were talking about what coaching has done for him over time, and he shared an analogy that captured it better than anything I could have written myself. He compared having an executive coach to teaching someone to ride a bike. At first,...Read More
The Feedback Sandwich Is Broken: What Leaders Should Do Instead
I was sitting in church this weekend when my pastor asked a question that stopped me mid-note-taking. “When you’re about to get good news and bad news,” he said, “which do you want first?” He asked the congregation to raise their hands. Overwhelmingly, people wanted the bad news first. Then he made a claim that...Read More