Karl Grass Executive Coaching

01/19/2018

If you aren’t connected to reality how can you be at your best?

This article does a nice job of defining what self-awareness actually is and the benefits it brings. Developing self-awareness is also one of the key reasons why coaching is so effective.

It’s not just about introspection.

10/25/2017

The power of reflection. What do you notice about its impact when you use it?

Protect your time.

07/25/2017

As technology replaces more of what we do, how will we, as individuals and as organizations, bring forth the value of compassion and the human element of work?

This excellent essay puts compassion, it's value and the need for it, into the context of larger trends.

Human jobs in the future will be the ones that require emotional labour: currently undervalued and underpaid but invaluable

05/20/2017

An interesting article from Harvard Business Review on the role of empathy and compassion in mitigating stress and burnout. https://hbr.org/2017/05/prevent-burnout-by-making-compassion-a-habit

02/28/2016

Two great articles have recently been published about what Google found when they studied high performing teams. Here's a headline: "In the best teams, members listen to one another and show sensitivity to feelings and needs."

The first article is a great summary of the conclusions from the research. The second (see preview in the comment below) provides a more in-depth look at the work of the Google research team.

http://bit.ly/1QPJikf

http://nyti.ms/1QPJkIG

Google has done extensive research into the skills and character traits of a good manager. But what about the rest of the workforce? For any large organization to thrive, entire teams nee...

02/02/2016

More evidence for the value of compassion in the workplace and why compassionate leaders are better leaders.

http://bit.ly/1SWESaO

Why nice guys do finish first.

12/19/2015

Compassion was among the most underserved coaching need expressed by CEOs in a study conducted by Stanford.
If you want to develop yours, I'm making a download of my book of daily compassion practices free tomorrow on Amazon. The offer will be good from roughly midnight to midnight US pacific time on Sunday.

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Compassion Haiku is a source book of inspiration and practices for developing self-compassion and compassion for others. Created one day at a time over the course of a year, these daily reflections combine the experiential impact of haiku with thoughtful commentary. Through this unique format the...

10/22/2015

A good article summarizing the research on why EQ is the most important variable differentiating top performers from average ones.

I frequently work with executives on growing their emotional intelligence and welcome a conversation on this topic.

http://bit.ly/1hVek9R

08/06/2015

An excellent homage to a true pioneer in adult development and one of the great ones. Frederic Hudson founded the Hudson Institute of Coaching and I am proud to be a member of its leadership team. The author is a colleague of mine whose own works are well worth reading.

Self Renewal for all of Life’s Stages from one of the progenitors of the field of coaching (I have one more post coming on this, my comments at his memorial…they will come some day. And if you want...