by coachseattle | Apr 28, 2008 | Leadership / team / organization, Relationship
In the book of “It’s Not About The Coffee”, Starbucks Former President Howard Behar said “If you grow people, the people grow the business” He said “We are in the people business serving coffee, not the coffee business serving people”. So he built a people-centered...
by coachseattle | Nov 21, 2005 | Blog, Coaching, Relationship
W. Barnett Pearce, PhD was the keynote speaker for the ICF 3rd Annual Coaching Research Symposium. He said communication was what we were making at the moment through interaction. Isn’t that a powerful statement? So many times, we thought we were communicating; we...
by coachseattle | Oct 10, 2005 | Blog, Coaching, Relationship
"Just as nature has its seasons – time to plant, tend, harvest and lay fallow – so too does powerful coaching. There are times when the client is best served by digging deep and exploring possibilities. There is a time to call the client forth, set...
by coachseattle | Sep 13, 2005 | Blog, Relationship
Often, we ask ourselves how much our partner loves us. "He really loves me conditionally when I love him unconditionally". "She loves herself more than she loves me." After a relationship ended, we asked ourselves more often "how did I end up...
by coachseattle | Aug 31, 2005 | Blog, Coaching, Relationship
We tend to want to change our partner, children, bosses and subordinates into someone we want them to be. We have expectations towards the people close to us. At the same time, we are learning that we can never change others. The only person we can change is...
by coachseattle | Aug 10, 2005 | Blog, EI (Emotional Intelligence), Relationship
In relationships, when we accept a person for who he is, we can drop the expectation or attachment on who he is supposed to be. When we are truly operating from acceptance, we have total freedom to choose how we want to be in a relationship. It sounds easy and...
