Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In

Dunning-Kruger effect, which is a cognitive bias that exists where individuals who possess a very low level of ability or true competence perceive themselves to be vastly superior to those around them or in their abilities in general.

What are drives? Drives are internal mechanisms, both conscious and subconscious, that lead to the decisions we make and ultimately the behaviors we engage in. Reading this book is a result of your drive to learn. Asking your boss for a raise is a result of your drive to achieve

“Don’t just teach the lessons, tell the stories.” Information is most powerful when it is personal. This proverb speaks to the notion that HOW we communicate

Our biological proclivity for competition and social comparison goes so far that researchers even have a name for the relative joy we feel when we see others whom we envy, are annoyed by, or perceive as rivals fail, perform poorly, or fall from grace: Schadenfreude. Think of Schadenfreude as a momentary lack of both compassion and empathy, and one

Meyer defined patience as not simply the ability to wait, but rather “how we behave while we’re waiting.” This quote is one of the best I’ve come across because it defines a word in a simple yet effective way, but also references

consultant to the research firm Gallup, stated it far more concisely. “The key to human development is building who you already are,” he said. Rath is right. To better establish a true identity and strategy of our own, we must understand our past, understand the strengths that were born as a result of our past, and finally, understand how to levera

Imposter syndrome (which is now becoming more commonly known as imposter phenomenon since it is not viewed as a true medical disorder or diagnosis)

I make it a point to state to others in the field that if you have identified your training philosophy before you have identified your coaching identity then you have misplaced your priorities.

Many within our profession (and those like it) have yet to learn that it’s not about being the smartest person in the room, but rather being the person who is the most capable of reading the room, and then doing something meaningful with the information you gather by speaking in a language that others can relate to and understand.