Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo

Bad presentation–or resistant audience?

In November of 2007, I was in San Diego attending a weekend training for coaches. A breakout sessions was led by the author of one of the best-known books on coaching. It is a good book and I was very eager to attend. He gave the ninety minute workshop six times over two days–I was in a morning session on day two.

The author struck me immediately as irritated, aggressive, and arrogant. His opening seemed vague and rambling and his responses to questions were not pertinent. People were shaking their heads and looking at each other. Coaches are a fairly supportive audience but in the first fifteen minutes five of the thirty people walked out, one while the author was responding (elliptically) to his question! I decided to Read the rest of this entry »

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This latest podcast is part seven of a funny and useful conversation between top executive coach Tony Mayo and his longtime client Ron Dimon. Ron is an expert on the use of information by executives of large organizations. Listen as two experienced business people play with useful ideas in this episode including:

• Put something “at stake”
  • Power of a public promise
• Integrity under uncertainty
• Stop grasping, start gaining
  • The power of “giving up”
• “Hero Managers” attract unreliable employees
• Don’t be sorry, be successful
  • Recovering from failure
• Choose your thoughts

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This latest podcast is part four of a funny and useful conversation between top executive coach Tony Mayo and his longtime client Ron Dimon. Ron is an expert on the use of information by executives of large organizations. Listen as two experienced business people play with useful ideas in this episode including;

• Low stress mindset for high performance on a variety of unstructured and unpredictable tasks
• Meditation & centering for executives
• Transforming overwhelm into flow
• Procrastination
• Creating vs. fixing
  • “Something’s wrong, & it’s me!”

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You may also set up an automatic “feed” to non-Apple devices by using this link: click here for other devices.

See free, easy Meditation Instructions on this blog.

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Barry Schwartz: The real crisis? We stopped being wise.

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From a Buddhist perspective, the description of reality provided by quantum mechanics offers a degree of freedom to which most people are not accustomed, and that may at first seem strange and even a little frightening. As much as Westerners in particular value the capacity for freedom, the notion that the act of observation of an event can influence the outcome in random, unpredictable ways [i.e., Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle --Editor] can seem like too much responsibility.

It’s much easier to assume the role of the victim and assign the responsibility or blame for our experience to some person or power outside oneself. If we’re to take the discoveries of modern science seriously, however, we have to assume responsibility for Read the rest of this entry »

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I have come to a frightening conclusion. I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized.

–Haim G. Ginott
Between Teacher and Child

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