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Chip Scholz
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Chip Scholz is Head Coach of Scholz and Associates, Inc. He is a nationally recognized executive coach, public speaker and author. He is a Certified Business Coach and works with CEO’s, business owners and sales professionals across North America.
Chip has written for a number of business and trade publications. 2009 saw the release of his first book project, “Masterminds Unleashed: Selling for Geniuses.” His second book, with co-authors Sue Nielsen and Tracy Lunquist, “Do Eagles Just Wing It?” was published in 2011. His next book "Clear Conduct" is due in 2013.Do Eagles Just Wing It?
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Masterminds Unleashed: Selling for Geniuses
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Category Archives: executive coaching
Why Smart People Make Stupid Mistakes
In my post last week about executive wisdom, I mentioned that intelligent, well-educated people are particularly susceptible to five fallacies that stop them from making wise choices and actions.
You can read more about these fallacies in Robert J. Sternberg’s book Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid (2003), but I will summarize them here:
The unrealistic-optimism [...]
How to Speak Up to the Boss and Be Heard
Speaking up to the boss is risky, especially if you don’t have a trusting relationship. If you’re not sure if you have the boss’ trust and respect, you’re going to need to work on this first. That’s where executive coaches can help.
But even if you’re sure you’ve got his or her respect, you still don’t [...]
Speaking Up to the Boss: Good Followers
Speaking up to the boss is risky, but necessary as a career booster. Good leadership takes two to tango. You can’t have effective leadership without courageous followers who take their position of power seriously by speaking up and asking the right questions.
We’ve seen how failure to speak up over policies that seem questionable or unethical [...]
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Followers and Leaders: When the Boss Goes Nuts…
Have you ever listened to your boss and wondered if he or she’s gone nuts? Or maybe just a little off-track? Ever had the courage to speak up… and had it go well? It’s not easy to manage the boss, but they need your participation.
The more I listen to the stories my clients tell me, [...]
What Do Positive Leaders Actually Do?
In 2005, results of a Gallup research study concluded managers play a crucial role in employee well-being and engagement.
Six years later, most of the leaders I talk with are acutely aware of the costs and benefits of engaging their workforce at all levels. Active employee engagement has strong linkages to key business outcomes, including:
Retention
Productivity and [...]
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5 Ways Leaders Can Reduce Negative Thinking
As if leaders don’t have enough on their plates, now we’re learning leadership success requires more positivity and less negativity. This isn’t as simple as it may seem, and it doesn’t come without well-documented studies.
Research from Drs. Barbara Fredrickson and Marcial Losada shows that people go from average to flourishing when their positive emotions exceed [...]
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Business Success: Be More Positive than Negative
In business, levels of happiness and positivity create success. A positive brain has more intellectual resources. What’s needed is to improve your positive/negative ratio.
I never knew this, but it makes sense: in chemistry and physics there is something called activation energy: in order to catalyze a reaction, there is an initial investment of energy that [...]
Management with Positive Psychology: Smile
I’m intrigued by some of the latest findings from the study of positive psychology. In particular, they’ve discovered three things can predict 75% of your success at work (the other 25% depends on your intelligence):
How well you’re able to manage your energy and stress levels in a positive way so that your stress activates you [...]
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The Progress Paradox: Doing Better, Feeling Worse
There’s something called a “progress paradox” that’s been evolving for some time. As a society, we’re doing more yet feeling worse. Executives are well paid, yet almost never satisfied. We accomplish plenty… and lack feelings of satisfaction and well-being.
Let me explain. According to some experts I’ve been reading online, every metric of society is improving [...]
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Managing Your Personal Faults:
Preventing Executive Failure