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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 development
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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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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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 [...]
Posted in career, coaching, executive coaching, leadership, learning Also tagged building trust, coaching conversations, core values, executive coaching 2 Comments
The Five Core Competencies of Leadership
By some estimates, there are over a half million business books about leadership, but when you study the ideas of the most respected experts, there is frequent agreement on the core competencies required. The same 5-10 competencies define what leaders do.
The authors of the book The Leadership Code (Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood, and Kate Sweetman) [...]
Leadership and the New Generations
Last week I asked the question, “Is Leadership Changing?” I think it is, and it must. Here’s why:
You only have to take note of the generational change in the workplace. With four generations currently working, the clash of expectations has never been more poignant.
As of this writing, the four generations include Traditionals (ages 65 and [...]
Posted in career, collaboration, leadership Also tagged age diversity, coaching conversations, core values, leadership challenges, relationship building 1 Comment
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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Success: The Secret Energy Force Behind It
I’ve been laying out a success formula for life and career through Clarity, Intention, Attention and Focus. These are the four keys my co-authors and I talk about in our latest book, “Do Eagles Just Wing It?”
By writing down specific intentions you get clarity, and then you identify the critical success factors and waypoints that [...]
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The SMART Way to Plan for Success in Life and Career
Luck only gets you so far. In good times, anyone can get lucky. Right now, things are a little harder. Smart people don’t count on luck, they plan. Then they work hard and are ready when “luck” strikes.
I’ve been laying out a success formula for life and career through Clarity, Intention, Attention and Focus. These [...]
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Self-Compassion: Everyone’s Secret Strength