Balkin Coaching Leadership Insights

Regular readers will be aware that one of the key elements of wellbeing is authentic relationships. To be really beneficial to our social contact needs to be varied, interesting, and meaningful. This week I was chatting to a client who has just started a new job as a CFO about the importance of forming strong connections with the people within his peer group, team and the broader organisation. The conversation reminded me of a study undertaken at the University of Kansas wh

Photo by Joao Tzanno on Unsplash Readers may be aware that this week I hosted a virtual lunch where we discussed Enhancing Leadership Capability and Wellbeing during uncertain times. I was asked ot record the session and decided I would share it with you all. (sorry for the little jump in the editing at the beginning, I cut out the part where everyone introduced themselves) Since I am constantly telling you to take a lunch break, please take time in the next few day

We all want to bounce out of bed every morning excited about our day and motivated to achieve our work and personal goals. All executives want their employees and peers to be more energized to create, implement, and achieve significant things at work. Despite years of research and numerous blogs, it seems we still don’t know the secret to increasing motivation in ourselves and others. In a recent discussion on LinkedIn, an MBA professor lamented the shortcomings of the tradit

Photo by Rohan Makhecha on Unsplash "No one's far from anyone anymore" OTC Australia 1988 TV Commercial dialling overseas from Australia (click here for the commercial https://youtu.be/orySdjb95_M ) I have a client who has been working in overseas to help grow an newly established organisation. He is highly passionate about what they do and was settling into life in a new country. His long term career goals are realistic and ambitious, and he has a strong realistic sens

“To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.” Jack Kornfield A new client contacted me for coaching because she has too much on her plate and is acutely aware of the need to let go of some things in her personal and work life. During the first coaching session we discussed her current role in a high level of detail. As we broke her job down into all its components, she rated her level of s

"You've got me feeling emotions Deeper than I've ever dreamed of" Emotions by Mariah Carey (Click here for the song) https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Plutchiks-1980-Wheel-of-Emotions_fig1_234005320 To be professional and demonstrate high levels of emotional intelligence we need high levels of emotional control. Those who like a bit of neuropsychology know that the amygdala is primed to hijack our responses when we face danger and send us into a fight, flight or freeze z