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! We have all heard the statement that the wise man builds his house upon a rock. The same thing goes for leadership. While we grow as a leader, our initial identity will act as a foundation. However, when we fail to understand what our foundation as...

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! The goal of feedback, positive or negative, is to provide useful insights about the performance or behavior of another person. Unfortunately, many leaders we have worked with want that feedback softened, or not given at all.  Especially in the even...

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 a previous episode, we talked about the power of the inner core and the assessments we use as Executive Coaches to determine the strengths and gaps of our clients. On this episode, we will walk through an actual MLEI debrief with our guest, Al F...

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! Recently we discussed the importance of first understanding your inner core leadership traits and how they will help you improve your leadership skills. Those five points are: Clarity – it is a starting point for you to understand who you are as a...

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 been talking about an assessment that we have that can be life changing. On this episode we will talk about the Mattone Leadership Enneagram Inventory (MLEI) that over 12,000 global leaders have used to start their own personal leadership j...

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! A 2022 Gallup Pole states that as much as 50% of the workforce is now considered the, "Quiet Quitters." In the same poll, it shows that only 32% of the workforce is truly engaged. How did this happen and is this a new phenomenon? Why are...

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! There is a price to pay for leadership. This price is often unseen by those who are not in leadership, overlooked by those who aspire to leadership, underestimated by those who are new to leadership, and a cause for burnout for experienced leaders...

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, when was the last time you had a genuine one-on-one discussion with your employees? Was it just their annual review, or are you actually taking the time to build rapport, trust, relationships, and an understanding of what makes them tick?...

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! How many times have you heard from managers to just do what it is I tell you to do? How many times have we seen emerging leaders who follow down those same paths of just telling employees what to do because that is how they were taught? Unfortunate...

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! Athletes have a warmup routine. Musicians have a warmup routine. As leaders, we too must have a warmup routine to get ready for the day. What is yours? Join us on this episode to find out why having a warmup routing is critical to your success. Lea...

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! Usually, when someone thinks about micromanagement they envision an overbearing boss who can’t trust their subordinates to do what they need and can do. The term "micromanage" definitely has negative connotations; but micromanaging one’s...

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! Have you ever been driving down the road and your vehicle is just not running right? No power, sounds clunky, lurches, belches smoke, and the more your curse, the worse it seems to get. Leadership can sometimes feel the same. Symptoms can include l...

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! Let’s be honest. Leadership is messy. It’s dirty, difficult, frustrating, and exhausting. It’s also exciting, inspiring, life-giving, exhilarating, and beautiful. Why? Because whether we are leading an organization, a team, a department, our family...

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 about checking off the boxes on a list. It is not simply about reading a book, watching a video, promoted to a particular title, going to a seminar, etc. It is much more than that and it takes time, work, and understan...

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 often we work with leaders that have problems with difficult conversations. As a result, the conversation turns into white lies, blaming others for their misgivings, and telling customers anything to get them off their backs. The list goes on. H...

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 leaders, we must understand the importance of our impact on not only those around us but our futures as well. We can either glorify our place as leaders or vilify our position. One way results in ourselves, our employees, and our organization mo...

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! Being a leader requires a certain level of competence in dealing with pressure. This is especially true when dealing with a crisis. The last thing that employees need during difficult times is to see emotional volatility in their leaders. Simply pu...

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 leaders, being overwhelmed (and therefore stressed) can stem from taking on too many tasks, too much responsibility, lack of personal development, or setting expectations too high. It can be self-imposed or assigned to us. How we respond to stre...

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 we strive to do our best every day, great things happen. Great things not only happen in our personal lives but to those around us. Simply put, when we do our best, the people around us strive to do their best and in turn, your organization wi...

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 you're in the company of someone who speaks and embodies their truth, regardless of how similar or different their opinion is from yours, you can feel their presence. In other words, it is palpable. When spending time with these leaders,...

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! The struggle that new supervisors have is real, but it does not have to be. So often, new supervisors are thrown into the deep end without any formal leadership training. Knowing your job, or industry may have gotten you to that point but leadershi...

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! If you are now just noticing that you have unhappy, unengaged, bored, or discouraged employees you have not been listening. The fact is these conditions grow over time and need to be addressed before they get to a point where it is palpable. The qu...

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! Effective communication is truly a skill that requires practice, confidence, and mutual understanding. This is especially true in business when we need informational facts without the fluff. Rich and Maikel get straight to the point on today's...

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 all have received criticism at one point or another in our lives. Time and again we have worked with people who have not been able to turn that criticism into an opportunity to develop personally, but rather pack that around as an emotional weig...

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 depend on strong working relationships with upper management, peers, and direct reports to succeed professionally. Leaders are not expected to be able to achieve a broad vision on their own, so they rely on others to help them achieve organ...