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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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Tag Archives: change
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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Is Corporate Culture More Important than Strategy?
Anytime there’s a recession and subsequent recovery, the top executive minds huddle together to rethink strategy.
Strategic planning is the formal consideration of an organization’s future course. All strategic planning deals with at least one of three key questions:
“What do we do?”
“For whom do we do it?”
“How do we excel?”
I’ve been listening [...]
Posted in executive leadership, leadership, outcomes, strategy Also tagged business decisions, corporate culture, leadership challenges, organizational change, positioning, purpose, values 1 Comment
Change for the New Year: Call a Coach
One of the things we can look at changing and improving for the New Year is ourselves and our ability to manage ourselves well.
Smart people with career ambitions know they can’t do it alone. (Mainly because we are self-deceptive, but also because coaching works when you need to make personal changes.)
Many of the people I [...]
Productivity: A Day of Observance and Questions…
What if you were to pay close attention as you go through your day to the processes and systems you use? I’ll bet with a raised level of awareness, you could easily identify three things that could help you be more productive.
Maybe you could immediately think of more than three things, but just for the [...]
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Your Career Decisions: What’s It All About, Really?
“All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”—James Thurber
Your career depends upon having clarity of purpose to make the right career decisions.
Just about everyone I know reaches a point where they stop and ask themselves a bunch of “Big WHY’s”…
Why am I doing this?
Why am [...]
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Are You Really Ready for Coaching?
You may think you’d like to have an executive coach for several reasons. Perhaps your friends and colleagues are experiencing positive results. It is also viewed as a fast-track fad: All up-and-coming leaders seem to have their own executive coaches.
How you view coaching—as a sign of prestige versus a strategic need—will influence the results.
Some people [...]
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Executive Coaching: How NOT to Measure Success
What makes a coaching experience successful? I know many executives who rave about their coach, and just as many who don’t admit to having one, …and a few who wish they hadn’t had the experience.
Although that’s rare, some managers have told me their coach wasn’t a good fit, and they don’t feel it was worth [...]
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Leadership Talk: What’s not being said
Let’s get real about what leading people in organization is really like. Let’s be truthful and open about what goes on in the inner and upper offices… Political gamesmanship is here to stay. It’s a stable part of leadership practices.
Can we handle reality? Or are we like Jack Nicholson said in A Few Good Men: [...]
Posted in career, chip scholz, coaching, communication, executive leadership, leadership Also tagged coaching change, communications, executive communications, gamesmanship, leadership behaviors, leadership challenges, leadership development, leadership taboos, office politics, organizational change 1 Comment
The Backside of Leadership…