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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: October 2016
The Art of Receiving Feedback
Receiving feedback with grace is a valuable leadership skill, yet many managers struggle with it. While we’re often quick to critique others, being on the receiving end involves an entirely different set of emotional and psychological skills. I observe this in the organizations where I consult. Leaders invite hearing feedback from staff, but don’t always […]
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3 Kinds of Difficult Conversations
Fifteen years of research at the Harvard Negotiation Project has produced some interesting information about what goes on during difficult conversations and conflict. In Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen and Roger Fisher (Penguin Books, 2010), the authors explain there are three basic kinds of conversations, […]
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Keep Difficult Conversations on Track
Many people I know and work with will do anything to avoid difficult conversations. Usually it’s because we fear strong emotions might get triggered and we’ll end up ruining a relationship. That fear is genuine and real. You know what I’m talking about if you’ve ever experienced an emotional hijacking —a sudden flare of strong […]
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Disentangle Difficult Conversations
Why do we avoid difficult conversations? At some point, many of us have had to deliver the dreaded line, “We need to talk.” And this often precedes an argument rather than any conversation. How do you disentangle difficult conversations? Some conversations are so difficult that we’ll do anything to avoid them. This is possibly because: […]
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Leadership Growth:
Heroic and Post-Heroic Stages
In my previous posts, I introduced you to developmental theory for adults and how developmental stages are being applied to leaders. A better understanding of leadership growth can help organizations and coaches approach leadership training with an expanded perspective. The theory of developmental stages for leadership indicates that if we try to grow leaders’ inner […]
5 Levels of Leadership on the Way to Mastery
In my previous posts, I presented different theories of leadership development based on the fact that leaders, like all adults, progress through 5 levels of leadership growth as they mature. Because the development stage theorists use different descriptive words for the stages, it can be confusing. They all have characteristics in common, however. Using a […]
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Developmental Stages and Leadership Growth
Developmental theories have been around for decades, based on 50 years of psychological research into how adults mature. How are developmental stages applied to leadership growth? How do leaders grow into more effective levels of maturity, wisdom and agility? Organizational psychologists have since applied the basic tenets to leadership development. Their conclusions are summarized here:
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Receiving Feedback:
The Strong Force of Resistance