COACH’S TOOLBOX - INSIGHTS & ADVICE FROM COACH FAITH​

Become a Conflict Expert

Coach Faith @secretweaponleader talks about how to tweak your responses to conflict from being an amateur to the expert. Turning a potential negative into a prime opportunity for you to showcase outstanding skills and leadership character. When others watch how you handle

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Is your thinking sound?

Can our brains lie to us?     While the question is multi-faceted, the answer is resoundingly, and frighteningly, yes.      Hidden personal biases and perception distortions, called Cognitive Distortions, are present in every one of us, regardless of age, experience, or intellect. And they

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How-to Become Trigger-Proof

Secret Weapon,  No matter how calm, cool, and collected your personality may be, this world is swarming with triggers and provocations that threaten our best-self composure, and often catching us off guard at a moments notice.    Whether it be a certain personality type, the

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Are you Convincing?

If you stopped and paid close attention to the number of micro negotiations you are engaged in over the course of a single, normal day at work, it might blow your mind.    The truth is, in order to be an effective leader, in

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Rebounding & Psychological Hardiness

Leaders,  The truth can hurt. Especially if it’s feedback we disagree with, were surprised by, or feels unmerited. Yet, the truth is, what we don’t know can hurt us even more.    Criticism, constructive or otherwise, is either accelerated growth food or an

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What Does Being Strategic Really Mean?

Secret Weapon,    The secret to being strategic is to first unpack what the word actually means. It’s one of those bucketing buzz words that is used far more frequently than it is understood. And even less common is ensuring we create a shared

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Your Attitude is Your Brand

Leaders,   Talent, skills, experience, education – all of these are valuable contributors to our professional success. There is one thing that trumps them all:  ATTITUDE.   The attitude that gets attributed to our character is what we demonstrate during our trials, struggles, frustrating

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Your Battles: 3 Questions to Ask to Choose Well

  Secret Weapons,   There is one crucial life skill we all need to master – choosing our battles wisely.    Whether in the lunchroom, the conference room, or the living room we will all face this decisional challenge of what to engage over, and

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The Lonely Precipice

 Secret Weapons,  This week let’s talk about Violent Politeness and Yes Men (see two articles below).   The common phrase, “it’s lonely at the top”, is a true-to-life daily struggle, especially for strong willed, highly competent leaders.      More than just lonely, it’s

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Indispensable or Irreplaceable?

Leaders,   Indispensable or irreplaceable? It might seem like an inconsequential difference. Yet, knowing the difference can greatly affect the course of your career.   Often, we get busy, operating in survival mode from day to day, and don’t realize that we may be

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