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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: leadership
What Books or Blogs Influence Your Personal Leadership?
What books, blogs, speeches or newsletters made a significant impact on you and your personal leadership goals in 2011? How will they impact your goals for 2012? For me, books provide a continual guide to growing my personal leadership.
I asked this question over on LinkedIn Answers and got some great suggestions for books and blogs. [...]
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Self-Compassion: Everyone’s Secret Strength
One of the advantages of executive coaching is that it provides a private opportunity to discuss things you wouldn’t bring up anywhere else. Sometimes clients reveal how harshly they judge themselves in our coaching sessions. It always surprises me, especially with some of the highly accomplished people I have the privilege of working with.
Young children [...]
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5 Personal Leadership Questions to Ask Yourself
How can you tell if you need to change? You may be going along, doing alright, sans problems, but you know you could be doing better. If you want to keep your personal leadership skills honed, you’ll need to adapt quickly and continually to meet reality. What are five personal leadership questions you can ask [...]
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New Year’s Resolutions: A Hard Look at
Competing Commitments
One of my favorite books over the Holidays was Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization, by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey. Last week I mentioned it in regards to New Year’s Resolutions. The authors make a very clear case for a hard look at [...]
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Leadership Challenge: Immunity to Change
If you find change hard, you may yet underestimate how powerfully strong is the pull toward non-change. As good as our intentions are, we don’t realize how strongly we hold onto competing commitments that prevent us from making real and lasting change. It’s as if we have an immunity to change.
Some of my coaching clients [...]
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Leadership Problems: Clear Thinking
Clear thinking leads to decisive action. Too many leaders, however, rush to judgment and act before really examining the problem from all perspectives. In today’s organizations, if you’re dealing with simple and easy solutions, then you’re missing something. Problems are multifaceted and complex.
As I mentioned in a post last week, problems are both technical and [...]
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Leadership Proficiency: How Clear Is Your Thinking?
If you want to become a better leader or manager, how do you go about it? I’m not talking about technical skills. I’m talking about ways to improve your personal proficiency, so that you become a better leader of the people in your organization.
It seems some people are naturally predisposed to have personal insights that [...]
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Generational Management:
What’s Good for Gen Y Is Good for All?
The idea of generational management was well expressed in Jamie Smith’s guest post this week. Maybe younger generations need to be managed differently than older workers. But I’m thinking, maybe not. Maybe we’re more alike than we think? (Photo credit Photostock)
For example, Ms. Smith mentions three ways leaders can help Gen Y in the work [...]
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The Need for Generational Management:
A Gen Y Business Student Speaks Out
This guest post is from Jamie Smith, who comments on my previous question, Does Gen Y Have an Attitude Problem?
Warning: Soap box! (Photo credit Photostock.)
I am guilty of being a part of Gen Y. That said, please continue to read my comment . I am working on completing my master’s thesis (and I’ve paid [...]
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Leading Gen Y: 3 Lessons for a Meaningful Career