Leaders in the Technology and Professional companies face significant technical challenges in a highly competitive industry, and yet share that their biggest dilemmas usually have to do with hiring and retaining people, leading people, and balancing family life and work life. Highly successful Executives and entrepreneurs from these sectors share with us that their top…

In my coaching practice, I found that one of the most common coaching concerns from Managers is “How can I get my staff to move towards excellence and improve? Engaging and mobilizing employees can sometimes feel like a daunting task. I have one manager coming to me after some pep talks with his employees, saying…

Change is saying sayonara to an old, familiar situation and facing a new, unknown circumstance. Change scares us because we may not be able to control it. We much prefers changes that we have planned for as they make sense to us. It’s the changes that happen to us that make us uneasy, that make…

Career transitions can be difficult. It’s not easy changing jobs, being relocated or jumping into something new. It’s especially true when you are making these career changes in the 40’s or 50’s as there are opportunity costs associated with change. Here are 10 important questions to ask before you make a career change : 1….

Fear is the feeling of apprehension and worry that comes over us when we expect something bad or unpleasant to happen. We all have different fears that affect us in unique ways, and it comes in different form. There is the fear of looking stupid in front of others, fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of…

You are stuck in a rut and dreading each day of work, and a change of career seems to be the only answer.  Or you may have been recently laid off and you are from an industry where there is cost cutting and restructuring. Basically, you are at a career crossroad and you are wondering…

We have been helping individuals who are going through their mid-career transition to find their career directions & increase their confidence and success in their transitions.   Case Study : Recently, we completed a study on our career coaching clients looking at their coaching goals (at the start of their coaching program) and their feedbacks…

Why Executive Coaching ? Bill Gates said “Everyone needs a coach. We all need people to give us feedback. That’s how we improve.”. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the best advice he ever got was to get a coach. Venture capitalist Fred Wilson advocates coaching too, especially for first-time CEOs. Business executives today are…

Based on my experiences with coaching Executives, I realized that clients who has difficult following through their commitments to action, and lack of drive and determination are those whose eyes are on what they don’t want and what will possibly go wrong in the future. When we are thinking about the money we don’t have,…

In late August 2014, my dad was diagnosed with 3rd stage pancreatic cancer. Eventually he lost his battle and passed away on 12 Oct 2014. During this time, it was a painful process for everyone in the family to make sense of what had happened as my dad had always been in the pink of…