by Jeff Kaplan | Jun 3, 2019 | Blog Posts, Coaching
Why do something now when you can put it off until later? Procrastination: the overachiever’s Achilles heel.Dr. Jeff Kaplan Everybody is unique and reasons vary for why someone consistently procrastinates on tasks s/he doesn’t want to do. That said, I have come...
by Jeff Kaplan | Mar 4, 2019 | Coaching
Employees get promoted because of their skills in being able to get the job done. So now they go from being a doer to being a manager, where their success lies not on their ability to get the job done, but on their ability to develop, motivate, inspire and hold...
by Jeff Kaplan | Jan 14, 2019 | Coaching
1. Coach. Coach. Coach. Do it for free or low pay if you have to. This will help build confidence and unleash the power of coaching. 2. “Experiment” – tell your client that you’re new using this approach to helping people but that you are...
by Jeff Kaplan | Jan 2, 2019 | Coaching
What does it mean to you? Positioned as an expert. Ask (in the best possible way, i.e. without leading) – makes the client the expert. At it’s purest, asking keeps the client as expert; though, there are tricky ways one can “ask” that still places the coach as expert....
by Jeff Kaplan | Dec 27, 2018 | Coaching
After an extensive, perhaps national search, you were selected to take on the CEO role. You sign the offer and celebrate with a friend or loved one later that evening. It’s now Monday morning and it’s your first day as CEO. What are you excited about? What concerns...
by Jeff Kaplan | Dec 2, 2018 | Blog Posts, Coaching
Part I – 4 Principles for Managing Confidentiality What do you do when, in the middle of a 6-month coaching engagement, the boss of your coachee calls you and wants to talk privately about concerns he has with your coachee? Your coachee, Sally tells you during...
by Jeff Kaplan | Dec 2, 2018 | Blog Posts
Part II – 4 Lessons I’ve learned to help with such decisions: 1. Be very clear up front about the limits of confidentiality, which typically is that the content of the discussions between you and your coachee are privileged between you and your coachee...
by Jeff Kaplan | Nov 5, 2018 | Blog Posts
Recently, I had the privilege of co-creating an article with Gregory P. Shea, Ph.D., M.Sc. and Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA. The theme revolves around developing leadership in both physicians and non-physicians. Included in the study there is a description of the...
by Jeff Kaplan | Sep 25, 2018 | Coaching
There are generally two camps of people in their relationship to money – those who always worry about it and those who never worry about it. There are few whose relationship with money lies somewhere between those ends. Why is this? Our relationship to money is...
by Jeff Kaplan | Aug 23, 2018 | Blog Posts
“50%–60% of executives fail within the first 18 months of being promoted or hired.” (Harvard Business Review) “According to a survey by CareerBuilder, more than one-quarter (26%) of managers said they weren’t ready to become a leader when they...
