August 26, 2015 by Ken Nowack
This free exercise, and dozens of others, were created for our book, Clueless: Coaching People Who Just Don’t Get It. You can learn more about Clueless by visiting our site or you can buy it from amazon.com today. Purpose of Exercise: Guide clients to explore the advantages and disadvantages of changing specific habits How to […]
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August 23, 2015 by Ken Nowack
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams Each week when we attend our guide dog puppy training with Indy it’s pretty easy to pick out the “winners” from the “losers” (OK, we have been wrong many times before). The “winners” seem […]
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August 19, 2015 by Ken Nowack
This free exercise, and dozens of others, were created for our book, Clueless: Coaching People Who Just Don’t Get It. You can learn more about Clueless by visiting our site or you can buy it from amazon.com today. Purpose of Exercise: A technique for identifying what changes clients are most motivated to make. How to […]
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August 16, 2015 by Ken Nowack
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.†Peter Drucker If you are a regular reader of this blog you know that my wife and I raise guide dog puppies for the blind. Our latest one is a beautiful lab named Enzo.  It’s particularly fun to […]
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August 12, 2015 by Ken Nowack
This free exercise, and dozens of others, were created for our book, Clueless: Coaching People Who Just Don’t Get It. You can learn more about Clueless by visiting our site or you can buy it from amazon.com today. Purpose of Exercise: To help you identify the areas in your life that you avoid improving or […]
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August 9, 2015 by Ken Nowack
“To lead the people, walk behind them.” Lao Tzu Talent today are stressed, highly disengaged, ready to leave organizations when the economy improves and doing less work with more resources A recent national study by Dale Carnegie Training placed the number of “fully engaged†employees at 29%, and “disengaged†employees at 26%. This suggests that […]
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August 5, 2015 by Ken Nowack
This free exercise, and dozens of others, were created for our book, Clueless: Coaching People Who Just Don’t Get It. You can learn more about Clueless by visiting our site or you can buy it from amazon.com today. Purpose of Exercise: Guide to facilitating an effective work-life balance plan. How to Administer and Use this […]
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August 2, 2015 by Ken Nowack
“I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.” Unknown Do you know anyone who fits the description below? Narcissistic: Demonstrates impairments in personality functioning (either in excessive reference to others for self-esteem or goal setting based on gaining approval from others) and impairments in interpersonal functioning (impaired empathy or relationships largely superficial) […]
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July 29, 2015 by Ken Nowack
This free exercise, and dozens of others, were created for our book, Clueless: Coaching People Who Just Don’t Get It. You can learn more about Clueless by visiting our site or you can buy it from amazon.com today. Purpose of Exercise: If you could three completely different lives form the one you are now living, […]
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July 26, 2015 by Ken Nowack
“If practice makes perfect, and no one’s perfect, then why practice?†Billy Corgan  Practice makes perfect according to an old saying. Or at least if you do it enough you will become an expert. Or does it? Experts vs. Being an Expert There is, in fact, a big difference between “experts” and those “who […]
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