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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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Self-Confidence: Everyone’s Secret Flaw
If you’ve ever worked with an executive coach, then you know what I’m talking about. In private coaching sessions, one of the biggest issues that comes up with clients, even for the smartest and most accomplished ones I work with, is lack of self-confidence. Just about everyone harbors self-doubt, even those who appear least likely.
Having [...]
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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 Proficiency: Walking the Tightrope
Leadership proficiency requires taking a hard look at yourself. If you’re not grounded in your values and beliefs, and share them frequently with those you’re in charge of leading, you will not have followers. No one wants to follow someone they’re not sure of, who doesn’t make themselves authentically transparent.
This is hard. It’s easy to [...]
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Leadership Competencies: Know Yourself
In some ways leaders are going to have to become more personally transparent in the coming decade. They must communicate personal proficiency. They need to know themselves well, and not be hesitant to admit reality.
Hiding behind your title or office or your reputation doesn’t work, and I doubt whether it ever did. Nor does an [...]
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If Computer Games Make You Smarter,
Can Games Help You Work Better?
The evolution in workplace attitudes may be due in large part to the way computers and technology have affected our brains. Think about it: the newer generations began using computer games and digital technologies at early ages. It’s bound to have had a huge affect on how they learn, communicate and behave. (Image credit jscreationzs, [...]
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Managing Gen Y: The Gift of Context
To manage Gen Y, you may need to give them the gift of context. How do they fit in, in the context of your organization, its mission, values and strategic plans? This may seem obvious, but just telling them how your company runs may not be enough. (Image credit Vlado)
The trap in discussing ways to [...]
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Management Innovation, Gen Y Style
What innovations to management would Gen Y’s make if they were in charge? I ran across an interesting HBR blog entry, Letting Gen Y Lead a Management Makeover by Vineet Nayar, about a business school contest where students are given a chance to reinvent management and organizations of the future. Some of the submitted ideas [...]
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Leading Gen X and Gen Y: Don’t Put Me in a Box
There’s so much misinformation and false assumptions about what it’s like to manage younger workers. I caution people to not jump to conclusions when they categorize the younger generations at work. No one likes to be put into a box and be stereotyped.
Here’s a great blog post about what it’s like for Gen X (often [...]
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Is Leadership Changing?
Someone asked me the other day if leadership is changing… if the skills required today for good leadership are any different than 20 years ago. Clearly, businesses are getting more complex, as are all organizations and governments. Are the guiding leadership principles the same?
I just kicked off my 16th session of the North Carolina Institute [...]
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