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		<title>Blogging and Bragging…Coaching Skills are Powerful!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had the opportunity to teach 80 health care supervisors coaching skills.  The class went well and I was very excited to get my evaluation comments today.  See the comments below.  My biggest take away from the day was just how powerful coaching skills are in the workplace.  The participants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Faking It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever felt like you weren’t smart enough or didn’t know enough?  Do you ever feel like you are pretending to be something that you are not?  Well, you are not alone.  Many competent and successful people at some point feel this way.  Not because they are, but for a variety of other reasons. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thecoachingcompass.com/2010/03/are-you-faking-it/</link>
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		<title>Managers Woes are Universal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the opportunity to work with healthcare professionals in supervisory roles.  Our focus was on the use of coaching skills in the workplace.  As I prepared for the program, I had some concerns about my own ability to fully understand their day to day issues.  Working in a hospital, nurses and other healthcare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thecoachingcompass.com/2010/02/managers-woes-are-universal/</link>
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		<title>Olympian Traits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Winter Olympics are great entertainment, but as a leadership aficionado, I can’t help but ask myself what are the traits and behaviors these talented athletes possess that jettison them to the top.  Of course they must have the basic talent and skills, but it takes more than that to train and prepare for Gold, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thecoachingcompass.com/2010/02/olympian-traits/</link>
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		<title>Business Band-Aids Don’t Always Stick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of the companies I consult with come to me with organizational ailments:

Our Customer Service scores are down, we need training.
The employees aren’t getting along, we need a teambuilding program.
Turnover is out of control.  It must be because Joe is a bad manager. Let’s fire him.
Employee morale is low.  Let’s have a employee appreciation party.

It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thecoachingcompass.com/2010/02/business-band-aids-don%e2%80%99t-always-stick/</link>
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		<title>Hello World!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Compass Chronicle; a bi-weekly blog filled with leadership lessons, teambuilding tips, coaching counsel, and assorted tools, thoughts and perspectives.  If you have an idea, concern or question you’d like to discuss, please feel free to jump in and comment.  I value your input greatly.  The more interactive this blog is the more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thecoachingcompass.com/2010/01/ays-stick/</link>
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