The most driven people in the room have built careers on pushing through stress. But what if the system that shaped them never taught them the one skill that matters most? There is a particular kind of leader I keep meeting. Sharp, strategic, respected. The person everyone assumes has it together. They have built careers...
Who you are becoming is revealed in how you hold your body and how you move through space. I used to think fitness was about the body. Becoming was about the mind. And identity was something you figured out once and carried forward. Turns out, they’re the same conversation. Identity Isn’t Fixed. It’s Practiced....
I’ve found myself using this distinction more and more in coaching conversations: Range, not change. I’m seeing it as a far more productive lens for people who are struggling with development and growth, because the unspoken message that people often hear with “change” is: “You were wrong. You failed to understand. The way you have been...
Introduction After working with team leaders and teams for 20+ years, I have developed a simple blueprint for working with teams. It begins with a conversation where team members are challenged to face up to the key questions surrounding identity that I outline in Start With Who (2022): Who are they currently being? Who do...
January. The time for New Year Resolutions. Or not. It used to be that making resolutions was the fashionable thing to do: Set specific measurable, actionable, relevant, time-based goals and then go and get them done. Simple. However, the limitations of this rational, almost scientific approach to target setting and goal achievement soon became...
One of the key differentiators of the Newfield Coach training program is that it is grounded in a rigorous and substantive theoretical framework – Ontology, the study of ‘being’. When a leader is said to have ‘presence’, it is his or her ‘way of being’ that is being referred to. To clarify what ‘being’ is...
Chalmers Brothers is a best-selling author, certified personal / executive coach, consultant, seminar leader and speaker. He has had 32-year career focused on leadership development, workplace culture, productivity and accountability, teamwork and clarity in communication, emotional intelligence, trust- and relationship-building. He is one of our trainers in The Coach Partnership Newfield Ontological Foundations program....
You may be familiar with the old Aesop fable about the Hare and the Tortoise. Simply put, it tells the story of a race between the two animals. The hare is overconfident in its abilities and sprints off at the start, before deciding to take a nap. On waking up, the hare sprints off to...
