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5 key leadership skills an executive coach can help you master

CIO

So, like a lot of IT people who find themselves taking on corporate leadership roles, Cantrell needed help communicating differently, understanding business needs, building and managing teams, and fostering confidence in his own abilities. To do all of that, he sought help from an executive coach. They’re using different muscles.

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Leland breaks into the coaching space with a focus on careers, not classes

TechCrunch

The coaching world is crowded. There’s BetterUp, a re-skilling platform that wants to bring executive coaching to employees , and Sounding Board, which mixes SaaS and coaching services. The company says that, in the last nine months, hundreds of customers have purchased more than 2,500 hours of coaching on Leland.

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Investors and business leaders: It’s time to take coaching mainstream

TechCrunch

Ariane de Bonvoisin is an executive coach to top CEOs, startup founders and VCs. She has keynoted the Oprah conference, given a TED talk, and been invited to Google, Amazon, the World Bank, Union Square Ventures and Red Bull to teach about navigating change and founder and startup wellness. A healthy leadership is a healthy company.

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Employee engagement: 10 best practices for improving your culture

CIO

According to the Gallup State of the Global Workforce 2023 Report , 41% of respondents attributed their lack of engagement to leadership and the workplace culture. Instead of focusing on administrative tasks, spend time coaching, goal setting, and leading, he says. “I You have to actually read what people have written.”

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Elevate Your Protection Strategy at CSO’s Future of Cybersecurity Summit

CIO

AAA National CISO Richard Latayan will lead a discussion on building resiliency into third-party relationships with Alex Attumalil, global CISO of Under Armour , and Ronald Banks, executive vice president and CISO of Texas Capital Bank. Later, she will answer questions in a live chat with attendees.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight.

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Leadership: Humility and Focusing on Others

QAspire

In one of the leadership workshop I attended in early years of my career, the trainer beautifully described humility as. Humility is like the banks of a river that gives direction to the flowing water without possessing it. ”. Leadership in any form is about others. A leader is just a means to an end.