by CQ Master Coach MarilynOh | Sep 19, 2023 | Coaching, Culture
“Gateway! I want to go back (or fast forward)!” Gateway, threshold, portal: “passages into or out of a place or condition”(1) “the point at which something starts to happen or change”(2), sometimes magical, time travel,...
by CQ Master Coach MarilynOh | Sep 12, 2023 | Bias, Coaching, Communication, Leadership, Mentoring, Supervision, Team
We were smiling, laughing, enjoying a relaxed catching up time together around the table, with cups of tea, my two bright adult daughters and I. Shifting to national news, I said in a “this is driving me crazy” tone, “Can you believe these fear based commercials and...
by CQ Master Coach MarilynOh | Sep 5, 2023 | Coaching, Communication, Culture, Leadership
Take a lesson from Goldilocks. You do not want your Communication Directometer™ to show too direct (her porridge “too hot”), getting burned (losing business); or too indirect (“too cold”), also risking losing business. How do you discover what is the cultural...
by CQ Master Coach MarilynOh | Aug 29, 2023 | Coaching, Culture, culture-special, Mentoring
Note: ICF is happy to respond to your mentor coaching questions towards credentialing, please allow a few days for a response at support@coachingfederation.org. I highly encourage you to check with them as requirements change. However, if you are trying to make a...
by CQ Master Coach MarilynOh | Aug 22, 2023 | Coaching, Culture, Leadership
The rise of AI, pandemics, virtual work, economic and social upheaval including migration, climate disasters, divisive and destructive politics, and terrorist attacks around the world are literally changing the face of our world and work in this 4th Industrial...
by CQ Master Coach MarilynOh | Aug 8, 2023 | Coaching, Communication, Culture, Leadership, Mentoring
How do you use your “magic” to determine whether you experience a nightmare or honeymoon? Have this past few years been a nightmare or more like a honeymoon for you? Many of my leadership, team and mentor coaching clients and I first experienced the...