by Scott Anderson | Mar 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
When it comes to making difficult decisions, conventional wisdom says Trust your gut. Recent research affirms the connection between your gut and your state of mind. Stanford University’s Justin and Erika Sonnenburg write, “The enteric nervous system is often referred...
by Scott Anderson | Mar 1, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture
This is the fourth in a series of four posts about the RGT coaching method. In the last few weeks, we discussed the basic principles, followed by more detailed posts about Roles and Goals. If you haven’t yet, you might want to read those before proceeding....
by Scott Anderson | Feb 23, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture
Today is the third post in a series of four on the RGT Coaching method. If you haven’t yet, check out the introduction to RGT and last week’s post on “Roles.” It’s a cliche because it’s true: If you don’t know where...
by Scott Anderson | Feb 16, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture
Last week I introduced the RGT–Roles, Goals, and Tolls–Coaching method. As promised, today we’re going to cover the Roles element. When teams learn and practice RGT, they see almost immediate results. It provides a common leadership (and...
by Scott Anderson | Feb 8, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
For the next few weeks, I’m going to write about RGT (Roles, Goals, and Tolls) coaching. This method can help you nip a lot of unnecessary management and leadership problems in the bud and even preempt a lot of problems before they can happen. It also gives...
by Scott Anderson | Feb 1, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized
Warning: Graphic content! (Not really.) I asked my first copy chief, an intimidatingly enormous Irishman from Y&R named Tom Hagan, what his favorite headline of all time was. Tom, being an eminently scorched-earth pragmatist, said, “Hemorrhoids?” which at the...
