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Chip Scholz
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Chip Scholz is Head Coach of Scholz and Associates, Inc. He is a nationally recognized executive coach, public speaker and author. He is a Certified Business Coach and works with CEO’s, business owners and sales professionals across North America.
Chip has written for a number of business and trade publications. 2009 saw the release of his first book project, “Masterminds Unleashed: Selling for Geniuses.” His second book, with co-authors Sue Nielsen and Tracy Lunquist, “Do Eagles Just Wing It?” was published in 2011. His next book "Clear Conduct" is due in 2013.Do Eagles Just Wing It?
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Masterminds Unleashed: Selling for Geniuses
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Monthly Archives: August 2016
The Problem with Measuring
Employee Engagement
With so many organizations focusing on Employee Engagement, why aren’t engagement levels across the world increasing? The Gallup Organization has published many annual reports based on their global workforce surveys. Everyone assumes a shared meaning for the concept of engagement, but there is little agreement in how to improve it. Let’s look deeper. David Mizne […]
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The Changing Face of Employee Engagement
With so many organizations focusing on Employee Engagement, why aren’t engagement levels across the world increasing? According to Gallup’s January 2016 article, The Worldwide Employee Engagement Crisis, there are serious and potentially lasting repercussions for the global economy. Only 32% of U.S. workers were engaged in their jobs in 2015, compared to 31.5% the previous […]
Most Leaders Are at
“Heroic” Developmental Stages
Why aren’t we doing a better job of developing effective leaders? I think it’s because leadership specialists have yet to understand and incorporate developmental stages into their programs. The business performance of any organizations depends on strong leadership, and by that I mean “post-heroic” leaders who can see beyond their needs to be a hero. […]
Developmental Stages of Leaders:
A Different Pair of Glasses
What’s the point of looking at leadership through the lens of developmental stages? For the past weeks I’ve been exploring adult developmental stages and five levels of leadership that are progressive according to growing maturity and competencies. Leaders become more effective as they mature, grow their inner game, and expand their abilities. This makes a […]
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Developmental Stages and
5 Levels of Leadership
Do we really understand the 5 levels of leadership? Some of the great leadership experts readily admit that while they can describe what great leaders do, they do not know how great leadership develops. In an attempt to understand what behaviors and mindset are required to develop better leaders, I’m becoming familiar with the Stage […]
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Do We Really Understand
Effective Leadership?
Do we really understand effective leadership and how to develop it for business results? If organizations want to grow leaders to meet the demands of an increasingly complex and chaotic marketplace, they need to know which leadership behaviors and mindset contributes most to leadership effectiveness. From what I see in businesses today, many executives feel […]
Leadership Levels: the Path
Toward Effectiveness and Agility
I’ve been reviewing a few books that describe five leadership levels as a means to understanding leadership effectiveness. The idea is that if we can assess the stage of adult development of a leader, then not only can we understand that leader’s operating mindset, but we can also form a developmental plan for his or […]
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Leadership Levels:
Self Assessing Leadership Agility
Without an assessment, can you estimate your own or your managers’ leadership levels? Since most experts agree that leadership progresses through developmental stages, similar to how an adult matures, how do you discover where you are strong and where you need to improve as a leader? In order for anyone to make a thoughtful assessment […]
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7 Trends in Employee Engagement