Why skills?
All skills offer a new perspective, a new way of doing things. That’s why we focus on skills as the foundation our coaching.
The skills on this page are conversation starters. An engaged person is skilled at making the tradeoffs needed to navigate each skill, they are wise to know which skill is appropriate for the situation. We use these skills in our coaching practice during office hours and in conversations with executives, managers, and individual contributors.
Each skill has a specific range where it applies, and a point beyond which it is counterproductive. We strive to point out those boundaries and as many of the applications of a given skill.
However, the skills are only useful when applied. We encourage you to read them, challenge them, and make them your own. Say them in your own way, and discover new ways how they can be stated, taught, or applied. Make them part of your personal or corporate culture.
Power skills
- Create WOW Moments
- Loneliness Tax
- Do it m’self
- Seven Principles of Engaging Communication
- Care the most, cry the most
- Vulnerability is Power
- Don’t Get Wedged
- Mitigated Speech
Change skills
- Loneliness Tax
- Seven Principles of Engaging Communication
- Show me something I can say “No” to
- Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing
- Don’t Get Wedged
Communication skills
All Skills
- 80/20 Rule of Value
- Avoid the Commodity Slice
- Care the most, cry the most
- Clear as Mud
- Create WOW Moments
- Do it m’self
- Don’t Get Wedged
- Elaborate the Obvious, Filibuster with Intent
- Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing
- Four Kinds of People in the World
- Loneliness Tax
- Mitigated Speech
- Objection Handling
- Seven Principles of Engaging Communication
- Show me something I can say “No” to
- SLA of Communication
- Too Many Options
- Triple A
- Vulnerability is Power
- We All Wear Masks