Strategic Thinking & Strategic Action

Fostering strategic thinking and strategic action by organizational leaders since 2007.

Pick the best: Don’t let the bad drive out the good
Coaching Lee Crumbaugh Coaching Lee Crumbaugh

Pick the best: Don’t let the bad drive out the good

It may be the same with every industry. Likely the sham artists and hucksters and skimmers and those just in it for the buck are pervasive. We all see them and have to deal with them (or try to ignore them).

I know that in business coaching, there are those who purport to be serious business coaches but aren’t. There are those who call life coaching or motivational coaching or something other than business coaching “business coaching.” There are those whose coaching credentials are hollow, missing, or misrepresented, who don’t know net margin from a fishing net.

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Coaching and change
Coaching Lee Crumbaugh Coaching Lee Crumbaugh

Coaching and change

My fellow coaches and I use the Pygmalion Effect, not as a trick but as a valuable tool, by seeing the best in and expecting the best from our clients, building them up so they can excel at whatever they want and need to be good at and at progressing toward their loftier goals.

Simply, by expecting the best behaviors, we are more likely to see the best outcomes. Rise and shine!

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