The Latest from BEC
May 15, 2024
By Dave Bushy, PCC As an executive coach, I work with senior corporate executives, vice presidents and leaders throughout companies and organizations with widely varied backgrounds and experience. And as a senior vice president at a corporation back in the day, I was honored to know women and men at all levels of leadership doing […]
May 3, 2024
By Allison Iantosca, ACC How does coaching, a human process of awareness building and choice making, fit into our automated world? Yesterday was a regular old Wednesday. Digital alarm got me up, coffee brewed by an early morning pre-set, the Roomba had vacuumed overnight. Notifications of one kind or another littered my home screen all […]
April 17, 2024
By Dave Bushy, PCC One of the most recurring subjects that emerges in coaching is the human tendency of delaying a meaningful conversation with another person. It’s a common theme with some clients as they speak about subjects ranging from subordinates who are challenging, bosses who treat them unfairly or vendors who might be unresponsive. […]
April 3, 2024
By Lisa McNeill, PCC Coaches help clients try new ways of being. And sometimes we are served by trying it ourselves. These last three days I have been in an all-day online class with a spacious 1.5 hours for a mid-day break. While most days, I don’t take the time to walk at lunch, each […]
March 20, 2024
By Allison Iantosca, ACC I think, for a lot of us, intimacy is a four-letter word dolled up in eight. Equally jarring and inappropriate, it should be reserved for those key moments of potent expression and otherwise be left out of polite conversation. Being the well-mannered professionals we are, this generally accepted practice seems to […]
March 6, 2024
By Dave Bushy, PCC As a coach, much of my initial work with clients is digging deep into the details about their professional experience and developmental desires. I spend time learning about who they are – essentially “what is” about them. And sometimes I hear from them about what they don’t feel they have achieved […]
February 22, 2024
By Allison Iantosca, ACC I have always wanted to be the Queen of something, I think. In fact, I recently checked this with my ego, asking if this was historically true? My ego sort of scoffed in an “as-if- there-was-ever-any-question” sort of way. I asked back if we could kind of ratchet the Queen part […]
February 7, 2024
By Dave Bushy, PCC I recall a lot of conversations between senior executives. Often, we (myself included) would spend time talking about other people in the organization – most especially when they were not present. And it wasn’t always positive. Did you ever know a senior executive who had an opinion about everyone in the […]
January 24, 2024
By Lisa B. McNeill, PCC We brought home a new puppy just before New Year’s. Day Two, and we were teetering between puppy joy and exhaustion, mixed with a good dose of anxiety. We asked ourselves, “Are we doing it right?” “Have we ruined this experience for her so she’ll never be able to use […]
January 10, 2024
By Dave Bushy, PCC As I begin to work with new clients ranging from manager to the C-suite, they often assure me, and in the process no doubt assure themselves, “I’m not a micromanager…” I probe. What do they experience when saying those words? It turns out that, for some leaders, even the hint of […]