Mainline Executive Coaching ACT

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! In business, things change so quickly that there’s a great deal of uncertainty about what’s going to happen next month, let alone next year. Leaders with conviction show us that the future is certain and that we’re all headed in the right direction...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Statistics prove that stress in leadership, and the workplace, are having serious negative impacts. The impact of stress is costing companies billions of dollars every year, creating health and relationship issues for employees.  What are those iss...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! We exist in a time when change seems our only constant. Those who can persevere through unprecedented challenges will be the ones who thrive. Today, four generations work side by side in the workplace. What it takes for each generation to achieve r...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Winston Churchill once said, "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Optimists are likely to see the causes of failure or negative experiences as temporary rather than...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Empathy has always been a critical skill for leaders, but it is taking on a new level of meaning and priority. Far from a soft approach it can drive significant business results. But what is Empathy, and how do leaders develop this high-level skill...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Procrastination is the action of delaying or postpoining something. The simple fact is that procrastination is a habit, and a bad one at that. Rich and Maikel are going to jump right on this one today and discuss procrastination in leadership. Lead...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Just to put a finer point to it, procrastination is not a super power. It is a thief of time!  Get it done today and make tomorrow that much easier. Leaders, Lead Well! Thank you to all of our listeners in over 140 countries and 1,600 cities worldw...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! We are firm believers of the power of a To Do list. There is power behind writing that down on a piece of paper. A To Do list creates accountability, relieves stress, makes you more productive, helps you delegate, forms habits, the list goes on. It...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Good Morning! Today is just a reminder to leaders to take a break during the day. Get away from your work and invite an employee for a coffee, or just a conversation in the break room with folks to get to know them better. Not only is this great fo...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Altruism is one of those concepts that is in a way, not completely understood. Especially when it comes to being an altruistic leader. Altruism was defined by a French philosopher as the opposite of egoism. If we look at it from that standpoint, it...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! As executive coaches, we have been blessed with meeting so many new people from all walks of life, orgnaizations, cultures and countries. On this episode we are introducing a brand new developmental opportunity that we have put together for all of...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Welcome to our new Morning Musings! Each morning we will be doing a short segment on positive changes you can make in your life, and as a leader. Today we talk about attitude. Did you realize that your attitiude is how you view the world and is onl...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! When sales slump, production goes awry, leadership is AWOL, attitudes sour, turnover starts creeping up, there is increasing conflict, complaints, and a general bad attitude across the board, managers tend to turn to issuing their own internal cult...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! We have all heard about the dangers of the comfort zone. That place where everything seems to be going well. However, in truth it is the worst place where you can be in your business, career, life, etc. So what is the true cost of staying in the co...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! So you have been cruising along and just enjoying the ride. Everything seems to be going to plan but suddenly the wind starts to blow and the waves start to build. Suddenly, you realize you have no idea how to navigate through the storm, let alone...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! You may have been born naturally attractive, tall, or muscular but you were not a natural born leader. Sorry if this bursts your bubble, but it is true. The idea that there are natural born leaders is a myth, plain and simple. Leadership takes lear...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Leadership failure can be caused by many factors including the leader’s lack of experience, poor communication skills, and conflicts with other leaders. However, there is one aspect of leadership that will gaurantee your failure: failing to develop...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Recent surveys show that young leaders are getting into their first supervisory or management role between the ages of 26 and 30. However, the average age of employees that are starting in leadership development is 42 years of age. That is a gap of...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Leaders must, at all times, be aware of their own behavioral footprint. The greatest leaders among us truly understand how their actions, big or small, affect everything around them. Simply put, leaders do not have the luxury of not being aware of...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Leadership development is not a one and done deal. There are paths that must be traveled in order to fully develop your own skills and talents. Curtis Carnes is an executive coach that hails from Cleveland, Ohio. Curtis has been coaching leaders fo...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Millenials are in over 44% of all leadership positions globally. According to Korn Ferry, the average age when millenials obtain their first leadership role is at age 30. However, according to Harvard Business Review, the average age for those star...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! It dawned on us recently that we have never done an episode that introduced the hosts of Mainline Executive Coaching ACT. So, on our 125th episode, we are asking Maikel about his career as an Executive Coach, which has spanned over 30 years. Maikel...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! So much has happened over the past decade in regards to leadership in the United States. Gallup polls show a steady decrease in how favorable the world views the United States from a high of 79% in 2002, to only 48% today. Is it a matter of Republi...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! We often hear the phrase; it is lonely at the top. All through the ages, we have qoutes from famous leaders about the loneliness they experienced. There is no doubt that being in a leadership position can become a lonely place. It takes grit, coura...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Thanks to a unique series of events over the past few years such as near-zero interest rates flooding the world with cheap money, Covid-driven government spending boosting consumer demand and supply chains strained and broken by disruptions in prod...