The Latest from BEC
December 10, 2020
By Diane Shannon “I no longer start every day in dread,” Sheila (not her real name) told me as we completed a six-month coaching engagement. Her statement initially surprised me because that’s not how she described her interest in coaching when we began. She had simply and unemotionally told me that she needed a career […]
November 25, 2020
By Dave Bushy I remember hearing a joke about a young man on a blind date. Over dinner, he spent hours providing his date with non-stop details about his life, his thoughts and his feelings. At some point, though, in a rare moment of introspection, he must have recognized that perhaps he had talked […]
November 12, 2020
By Laurie Fitzpatrick It’s no coincidence that this was the year I decided to get serious about supporting myself. In a year that has tested executives’ resourcefulness and resolve at every turn, I find I am no exception. It was on a weekly call with my board chair that he asked what I was doing […]
October 29, 2020
By Allison Iantosca I get that not every person is a dog person. Dogs shed and bark. They lick unimaginably hard places to reach and eat things that: a. you don’t know how they found and b. you would never even touch with your bare hand. They jump on the counter, jump on your mother-in-law, […]
October 16, 2020
by Dave Bushy You’re a busy manager and it’s Sunday evening. You’re trying to get ready for the upcoming week. You log onto your work calendar and look incredulously at your Monday schedule wide-eyed. You are booked with continuous back-to-back meetings from 7 am until 6 pm! “What happened?” you ask yourself. Then you remember […]
October 3, 2020
By Dave Bushy You’ve made it into a leadership position. You are finally a manager! You take the new job seriously, knowing that the responsibilities include meeting strategic goals, managing budgets and making presentations to senior management. Those challenges are daunting, but you feel well prepared, due to your background, education and business experience. And […]
September 18, 2020
By Allison Iantosca I wonder if you can imagine yourself sitting alone in a concert hall—a venue created for listening to classical music. It may be gilded and ornate; pillars surging up to a ceiling bedecked with painted angels? Or perhaps it is spare and cool, with wood paneled walls and a small stage like […]
September 4, 2020
By Diane Shannon When my first child was born and I stepped over the mighty threshold to “parent,” I felt elated, awed, and grateful—and at the same time as if my life had completely fallen apart. Meditation had been a daily sanity-saving practice for me. Have you ever tried to meditate with a newborn crying […]
August 27, 2020
by Dave Bushy “Always Have Hope.” This philosophy informs the simplest and most profound outlook humans can hold in their hearts. It is a quote from one of the men I admired most in the world. I often ask those around me how they feel about the times in which we live. Many point to […]
August 14, 2020
By Allison Iantosca In Gestalt coaching we talk with you about what is “figural”; a way of defining the main thing you are or could be looking at by pulling it out of everything else that forms the background. Sometimes I imagine this like seeds in a garden and you choose to water what you […]