Executive Leadership Coach, Gary Wood reflects on leadership, faith, beating burnout and being your best.
Occasionally in life you meet a truly remarkable individual. You can usually look back and comment on some particular quality that made them stand out in your mind and elevated them to a place of esteem. I have lived with such a remarkable individual for 36 years. Alice is my wife, my best friend and [...]
Sometimes one person is the lone voice of leadership, the one who sees circumstances and solutions with a clarity that those around them, higher in the organizational chart or not, do not yet see. The leader makes the case for change. They paint pictures to illustrate the needs and the solutions. They articulate the vision [...]
We get powerful lessons in time management from Jesus. Really they are lessons in self-management. Those who lead in any capacity would do well to study the life of the Lord. He didn’t come to specifically teach us about business management, time management or executive leadership, but his life is exemplary of such. In brief: [...]
Lawyer burnout is no illusion. The profession consistently loses tremendously skilled professionals to burnout and career disillusionment. You may have started into law with a burning desire to help people and now you’re left questioning whether or not you’ve made much of a contribution at all. You probably prided yourself in you ability to find [...]
Before engaging a coach for ‘leadership development’, you had better get a grip on what exactly leadership development is in the context of how you want to use it. To book yourself or sponsor staff for leadership development coaching doesn’t mean much by itself. What is it you wish to accomplish? Adjust a career limiting [...]
Work-life balance is on the minds of the Lattice Group, who describe themselves as a grassroots campaign to get young people to consider the issues of work-life conflicts in their own lives. Considering these are the men and women who are our emerging leaders, their voice is welcome and fresh in the discussion of work-life [...]
