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Carter McNamara

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When Do You “Tell the Truth” During Coaching?

A hallmark of coaching, whether coaching oneself or others, is to ask generative questions —…

Leadership Skills

History of Organization Development: The Psychologists

History of Organization Development: The Psychologists Part 2 (Guest post from John Scherer, Co-Director of…

Consulting & Freelancing

The CFC: Choosing Your Leadership Development Team

Choosing Your Leadership Development Team: The CFC It’s almost spring, and now’s the time to…

Financing & Loans

History of Organization Development: Prehistoric OD

History of Organization Development: Early OD Part 1 (Guest post from John Scherer, Co-Director of…

Consulting & Freelancing

Executive Remuneration – A View from the UK

(This is a guest post by Nick Lindsay of Elemental CoSec) In recent years, executive…

Business Laws & Ethics

How to Avoid “Toxic” Coaching

This is a guest post from coach and consultant, Dean Middlebrook of Management Development &…

Leadership Skills

The CFC: Leadership Development & Charity Fairs

In this and the next several CFC posts, we’ll examine some of the steps that…

Financing & Loans

Basic Guide to Reframing: Fresh Perspectives

Basic Guide to Reframing: Seeing Things Differently Reframing is seeing the current situation from a…

Leadership Skills

Why Should Practitioners Know Their Paradigms, Theories and Models?

Why Understanding Our Models, Theories, and Paradigms Is Important Paradigms, theories, and models – we…

Consulting & Freelancing

Mastering Communication: Paraphrasing and Summarizing Skills

Two very useful skills in communicating with others, including when coaching and facilitating, are paraphrasing…

Leadership Skills

Basic Modes and Formats of Coaching

One of the advantages of the coaching process is that it can be done in…

Leadership Skills

Practice of Asking Open and Honest Questions (Part 2 of 2)

(This information is based on the work of Parker Palmer, John Morefield, and Marcy Jackson,…

Leadership Skills

What is Wrong With the Market for Corporate Governance Experts?

(Guest post from Andrew Clearfield, Corporate Governance Consultant ) One of the things with the…

Business Laws & Ethics

Practice of Asking Open & Honest Questions (Part 1 of 2)

(This information is based on the work of Parker Palmer, John Morefield, and Marcy Jackson,…

Leadership Skills

Applying to The CFC — Local Charities

Previously, we looked at some of the important considerations for a nonprofit in deciding if…

Financing & Loans

What are Values, Morals, and Ethics?

Guest post from Jack Hoban. What are Values? According to the dictionary, values are “things…

Business Laws & Ethics