“From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.” Sophie Tucker Despite increasing evidence that most personality traits are highly genetically determined (current estimates suggest as much as 50%) much […]

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Anaïs Nin Despite a lack of sound longitudinal research studies showing a clear return on investment, executive coaching continues to increase in popularity.  Most coaches have their favorite assessments they tend to pull out of their “toolkit” when appropriate for most of […]

“Success and failure are both greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.” Hildegard Knef Looking for an easy, simple, reliable, and valid way to measure whether a coaching, training or consulting intervention has impact? The “post-then-pre” method of self-report evaluation offers one solution for documenting behavior change. The data […]