Using social media for relationship marketing online

January 24, 2012

If you’re in a professional services business, you know how important relationship marketing is!  The undisputed queen of online relationship marketing is my friend, Mari Smith, who wrote the book on the subject!  She was kind enough to join a recent Leading Coaches’ Center Mastermind Call, where she shared with us all sorts of practical [...]

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Wanna become an exceptional executive coach?

January 23, 2012

Then you’ve gotta know Jeremy Robinson.  He’s one of a team of authors who wrote the book Becoming an Exceptional Executive Coach! Use your knowledge, experience and intuition to help leaders excel, which is featured in the Library of Professional Coaching, where you can access a sample chapter and then click through to buy your [...]

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My all time favorite leadership strategy

January 22, 2012

Leaders: ask yourself at least 3x/day “What conversations do I need to have with whom to accomplish what matters most?” Honed during 18 years coaching leaders and executives; I find this question to be the most influential strategy in identifying what matters most, what key players to turn to, what conversations to have, and how [...]

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There’s an artistry to building coalition and creating partnering

January 20, 2012

An article I wrote on The Art of Building Coalition is posted at the Library of Professional Coaching and excerpted here: There are numerous situations we face at work, whether as an entrepreneur, an employer, a manager, a leader, an employee or a member of a project team where we need to build coalition with [...]

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Leadership, Strategic Intent, and a Magician named Merlin

January 19, 2012

Charlie Smith, a brilliant colleague and dear friend, has written extensively about what he dubbed, “the Merlin factor” in leadership in organizations.  You can find more about this in his books as well as the excerpt below from the Library of Professional Coaching: Most attempts to improve an organization’s performance by changing its internal culture [...]

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Preliminary Report on Executive Coaching Survey

January 18, 2012

Every year, Sherpa conducts an executive coaching survey.  The preliminary report is available at the Library of Professional Coaching, and we’ll post the full report soon! Coaching takes many forms. In this, our seventh annual survey, to refine the information coaches provide us, we made a distinction between executive coaches, those focused on behavior, and [...]

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Gratitude is the key to unlock life’s greatest gifts

January 17, 2012

I’ve blogged about gratitude before (http://www.suzipomerantz.com/top-5-blues-busting-mindsets-to-combat-the-current-economy/) and I’m happy to share with you this excerpt my colleague Maynard Brusman posted in the Library of Professional Coaching: A large body of research on positive psychology and happiness suggests that developing an attitude of gratitude can improve psychological, emotional, spiritual and physical well-being.Recent research indicates that people [...]

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Leading Coaches talk with Mike Jaffe about those moments in life that are a Wake Up Call!

January 15, 2012

Leading Coach and author Mike Jaffe,, a 9/11 survivor who worked on the 96th floor of the World Trade Center, arrived 20 minutes late to work that day after deciding to have breakfast with his wife and daughter. This was his personal wakeup call to realize that life is a precious gift and small actions [...]

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Book Review: Are you engaged in Thriving Work?

January 13, 2012

My dear friend, Ann Strong, wrote a beautiful little book that will help you engage in all the right stuff in 2012 and always.  This is not part of one of those book launch promotions, in fact, she doesn’t even know I’m writing this post, and I get no kick back or affiliate dollars from [...]

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Authentic Marketing is About Integrity

January 12, 2012

You’re a service provider and you love creating value for your clients.  You’re passionate about the work you do and the results you produce. Yet, you feel weird about self-promotion.  You’ve heard that you need to get comfortable with “shameless self promotion” to be able to grow your business.  How can you embrace authentic marketing?  [...]

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