Best of MBS

Think coaching is a "feel good" HR initiative? Think again. In this episode of The Coaching Habit, Sally Bonneywell outlines how coaching can be a strategic tool that moves your organization closer toward its business objectives.

Nathan Leigh Jones is a musician and an academic. He's performed all over the world, and is doing a PhD that exposes the impact of music and lyrics on emotional well-being. That expertise meant he was the official music curator at the World Happiness Summit. In our conversation, we talk about the dance between words and music, how you test to discover if lyrics really matter, and how to build the playlist you’re going to need.

Today's guest is Laine Joelson Cohen, one of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coach Group, as well as the Director of Leadership, Executive and Professional Development at Citi. Laine believes that using a coaching style and curiosity as a cornerstone to her work opens up channels of trust and leads to collaboration, performance, and impact.

I’m really happy to be talking to Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff, the founders of Future Search. They have a terrific new book out called Lead More, Control Less: 8 Advanced Leadership Skills That Overturn Convention. In this conversation the three of us discuss:

Why leaders need to give up control

The importance of controlling “structure” rather than people

How to view anxiety as blocked excitement

What leaders can do to tap into the collective wisdom

Misha Glouberman runs a program called “How to Talk to People About Things,” is a faculty director at the executive education program at the Ivy Business School, and the host of Trampoline Hall. In our conversation we work on how to get out of our own way when we’re having a conversation; the foundational error that derails a good conversation; how curiosity can be a saving grace; why we so often continue to tolerate short-term irritation; and why we’re often not bold enough in owning up to what irritates us most.