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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: leadership behaviors
Leadership Trust: Who’s Behind the Mask?
Even the most competent managers and leaders will suffer a trust deficit if they fail to communicate well with their people. Misguided communications are a big cause of lack of perceived trustworthiness in bosses. And in the work I do coaching people in organizations, it doesn’t take much to fuel the flames of mistrust. Business [...]
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Trust: Why Some Companies Outperform Others
You probably assume that because you’re trustworthy, the people who work for you trust you. But that may not be true, according to worker surveys. And it could be a cause of poor business results. A Watson Wyatt Worldwide study of 12,750 U.S. workers in all major industries found that companies with high trust levels [...]
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Bad Leadership Habits: 5 Things Leaders Could (and Should) Stop Doing
I’ve been writing about bad leadership habits, and making lists of things that would be easy to stop doing. (See my previous post here.) What kinds of things could you stop doing, that would make you more effective as a person and as a business leader? Quite often bad leadership can be immediately improved by [...]
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Bad Leadership: 10 Things to Stop Doing Right Now
What kinds of things could you stop doing, that would make you more effective as a person and as a business leader? Quite often bad leadership can be immediately improved by simply stopping bad communication habits. “We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don’t spend enough time teaching leaders what [...]
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Bad Leaders: How to Become More Trustworthy
How do leaders become more trustworthy? I’ve been reflecting on Barbara Kellerman’s book The End of Leadership. Everyone has at one time in their career had to endure a truly bad boss. What can we be aware of to ensure we don’t fall into the trap of becoming an untrustworthy bad leader ourselves? Leaders can [...]
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Self-Confidence or Vulnerability: Walking the Tightwire
As a business leader, what do you think about expressing self-confidence vs. vulnerability? There are a lot of great videos on TED.com, but two have left me thinking profoundly: Dr. Brene Brown’s talk on vulnerability and the one on shame. As mentioned in my post on Tuesday, expressing self-doubt or anything that hints of a [...]
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5 Goal Setting Strategies for Success
I’m following up on the great strategies Heidi Grant Halvorson writes about in her book Nine Things Successful People Do Differently. Most people don’t take goal setting seriously and never get beyond just thinking about them, rather than writing, planning and implementing. (Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net) Last week, I explained the first four strategies for effective goal [...]
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The Power of Small Wins: What Could You Change?
After reading about turn-around companies and product successes in the book The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, I’m fascinated how leaders can use these ideas to improve themselves and their own companies. Apparently, if you focus on changing one keystone habit, you can cause widespread shifts. It’s identifying which habits to change that’s tricky. [...]
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How to Fix a Leadership Trust Deficit