by Dr. Jeff Kaplan | Dec 10, 2020 | Blog Posts, Coaching
Contrary to popular belief, the goal of a parent is not to raise children. The purpose of a parent is to raise happy, independent, productive adults. What gets in the way? “Overparenting”. That is, the parent gets caught up in a...
by Dr. Jeff Kaplan | Aug 17, 2020 | Blog Posts, Coaching
If you work in a medium to large sized company that has been around awhile, it’s fair to assume you are in the middle of, have recently gone through, or will shortly go through a turnaround situation. Managers and leaders are sometimes asked to “retire” in...
by Dr. Jeff Kaplan | Aug 6, 2020 | Blog Posts, Coaching
Have you ever heard another leader being spoken about disparagingly? Did you speak up? What if the naysayer was your boss or an influential board member? Leadership takes courage- courage to speak out even when it’s easier to allow...
by Dr. Jeff Kaplan | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog Posts, Coaching
3 Ways to Respond to a Perceived Threat with Power versus Force, Part 3 3. Stay in Integrity When you stay in integrity, you operate from a set of values and principles used to guide your behavior. You make decisions based on a sound model of...
by Dr. Jeff Kaplan | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog Posts, Coaching
3 Ways to Respond to a Perceived Threat with Power versus Force, Part 2 2. Respond with CompassionDepersonalizing a perceived attack provides the space to see the bigger picture and respond with compassion. Recognizing that the attack is more...
by Dr. Jeff Kaplan | Jul 8, 2020 | Blog Posts, Coaching
New advancements can be difficult to evade, as they sometimes become unavoidable. For those in their forties through sixties, did you buy a cell phone at first launch (remember the bulky car phone?), after people whose opinion you valued told you how convenient they...
by Dr. Jeff Kaplan | Jul 2, 2020 | Blog Posts, Coaching
Volumes of books and articles will be written about the year 2020. Authors will dissect and contextualize leaders at all levels and their response to the demands and challenges of the year. Nation X versus Nation Y, political leaders, business...
by Dr. Jeff Kaplan | Jun 19, 2020 | Blog Posts, Coaching
3 Ways to Respond to a Perceived Threat with Power versus Force, Part 1 1. Depersonalize the Attack When people judge, criticize, blame, or attack you, it’s more about their insecurities than it is about your identity. The specifics of the attack...
by Dr. Jeff Kaplan | Jun 1, 2020 | Blog Posts, Coaching
Power v. Force: The Introduction “Force always creates counterforce, its effect is to polarize rather than to unify. Polarization always implies conflict…inevitably it produces a win-lose dichotomy and because somebody always loses, enemies are always...
by Jeff Kaplan | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog Posts, Coaching
Practices #6 – 10 6. Focusing too much on yourself. Attain insight into your level of egocentrism by going back through your emails to see how many times you use “I.” Expressing that “The report looks good” instead of “I think the report looks good” takes the focus...
