Sustainable leaders know that serving others is the key to more innovation and creativity, greater team involvement, happier followers, creating a high involvement culture and better business results.Are you a leader who would like to reinvent yourself and have a more fulfilling life and career? For over thirty years, I have been working with people to discover their purpose and passion to create work that is fulfilling and...

Executive Coaching to Enhance Emotional Intelligence Sustainable leaders know that serving others is the key to more innovation and creativity, greater team involvement, happier followers, creating a high involvement culture and better business results. For the past year, I have been been collaborating with the senior VP of Human Resources of a multi-billion dollar global engineering company. He is supporting my exec...

Team Accountability – Employee Accountability Requires Engagement Mindful leaders know that serving others is the key to better business results, greater team involvement, happier followers and a sustainable future. I recently spoke with the senior VP of Human Resources of a Silicon Valley company regarding providing executive coaching for the company CEO. She asked some very insightful questions to determine fit. She...

“Mindful leaders know that in serving others as opposed to treating employees as servants is the key to better business results, greater team involvement, happier followers and a sustainable future.” - Dr. Maynard Brusman, San Francisco Bay Area Executive CoachLeadership’s Link to Emotional Intelligence“More than anyone else, the boss creates the conditions that directly determine people’s ability to work well”. ~ Daniel Go...

How to Discover Your Purpose Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. -...

Reinvent Your Career I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients. We talked about his focusing on discovering a better sense of self, including his core values and identity. He was energized and motivated to ignite his entrepreneurial spirit.Most importantly we focused on his overcoming fear, and discovering a sense of purpose...what was truly important to him. He pondered on the...

The ability to select, motivate, develop, and retain top people is critical to a company’s success. If you want to build a company where people love to work you have to know how to hire and keep great people. Unfortunately, a poor hire can cost a company a great deal of money and cause undue distress and wasted time for everyone involved. Great companies and managers start with optimistic, change-resilient, and committe...

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well – Mahatma GandhiI recently spoke with the VP of Human Resources of a San Francisco Bay Area company regarding providing executive coaching for the company CEO. She asked some very insightful questions to determine fit. She specifically wanted to know how I worked with different personality styles, a...

Creating a positive experience for customers is every employee’s job, including those who work outside the sales department. Unfortunately, training often overlooks key interpersonal skills for influencing others. Workers at all levels fail to understand that: Customer expectations for the sales experience have increased. Customers enjoy a broader, more competitive selection of products and services. There is oft...

Empathy allows us to understand others’ feelings, thoughts and experiences. Customers must sense that you care about their needs.Studies show, however, that our sense of empathy is eroding. The Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan has collected data for more than 30 years, and researchers have found that young adults are 40 percent less empathetic than their counterparts in 1979. The ability to empath...