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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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Tag Archives: developmental stages
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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The Urgent Need for Better Leaders
With all the disruptive technology and rapidly expanding nature of global business, there’s an urgent need to grow better leaders as I wrote in my last post. To develop truly effective leaders, executive coaches need to address leadership stages. Yet, few leadership-development initiatives address the inner game: how leaders perceive, find meaning, make decisions and […]
Grow Better Leaders: 5 Developmental Leadership Stages
Does your organization do a good job of developing truly effective leaders? The increasingly complex and chaotic marketplace poses an urgent need to grow better leaders. Companies that seek to maintain competitive advantages require strong leadership. Yet from what I observe in my work in organizations, many leaders remain confused about how to strengthen leadership […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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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Leadership Growth:
Heroic and Post-Heroic Stages