Posts by Carol Ross
International Coaching Week
It’s International Coaching Week, as proclaimed by the International Coach Federation (ICF). And as part of the festivities, ICF has just released preliminary findings from a global survey of 6,000 coaches, conducted last fall, on the coaching profession. I’ve been over at Andrea Lee’s blog, participating in a conversation about what the numbers mean. A…
Read MoreBad Power Point
Seth Godin has a great posting on what we take for granted in business–bad Power Point presentations. No one seems to notice anymore because the standard is so low. What I like about Seth’s thoughts is that he points to the power of whole brain thinking–using facts and photos, using eloquent reasoning and emotion, providing…
Read MoreVisual Thesaurus
A friend of mine just pointed me to Visual Thesaurus. Provide a word and the tool creates a visual diagram of related words and their meanings. Sort of a mind map for words. You can try a few words for free and then it requires subscription ($19.95 per year) or buying software ($39.95). I put…
Read MoreTea Time
Several weeks ago, the women in my family celebrated my mom’s 79th birthday by taking her to high tea at a historic hotel in Denver, The Brown Palace. It’s a classy place where heads of state stay when they are in town. Before atriums were made commonplace, The Brown Palace had one, topped with a…
Read MoreThe Power of Story
I was doing research for a talk to leaders in a company. One of the points that I was making was that extraordinary leaders are story-tellers. I ran across a reference to the 2005 Stanford University commencement speech given by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple and Pixar Animation. I remember reading the transcript, emailed to…
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