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...
by Jeff Kaplan | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog Posts, Coaching
Do you ever receive very lengthy emails that only needed a few bullet points? Have you ever become emotionally triggered by something someone said in an email? Do you find yourself drowning in a sea of cc’s all day long? Everyone has a bad email...
