Honoring Your Word, Recognizing Blindspots and the Financial Costs of Lacking Integrity

ON COACHING | High integrity is doing what you say you’re going to. It is the greatest form of self-care. Listen to Novus Global coaches David Gerber, C.J. Martindale, Janet Breitenbach and Chris North discuss how integrity correlates with quality of life and work, the difference between honoring your word and keeping your word, training… Continue reading Honoring Your Word, Recognizing Blindspots and the Financial Costs of Lacking Integrity

Reinvention and The Awareness of Choice

ON COACHING | When we experience internal misalignment or external challenges out of our control, what we can control is perspective. We have the opportunity to see these circumstances not as happening to us, but for us. Reinvention begins with the awareness of that choice. Executive coaches David Gerber, Deb Foy, Kristin Frade and Rosanna… Continue reading Reinvention and The Awareness of Choice

The Operations Machine Behind Coaching

ON COACHING | Coaches David Gerber and Chris North interview the Novus Global Operations team, an infrastructure of behind-the-scenes support that they say has been vital to their coaching practices. They explain how “solo-preneur” coaching can be isolating and unnecessarily taxing, in contrast to joining a firm with a support team that allows the coaches… Continue reading The Operations Machine Behind Coaching

New Year, New Perspectives On Achieving Goals

ON COACHING | Why does the topic of New Year’s resolutions often elicit an eye roll? Maybe it feels cliché or maybe it’s your personal history with it or maybe it’s the national track record–an 80% failure rate by February. But what if we shifted our perspective around goal-setting from zeroing in on one particular… Continue reading New Year, New Perspectives On Achieving Goals

Identifying What Motivates You the Most with the 5i Assessment

ON COACHING | ON COACHING | The 5i Motivation Assessment was designed to help individuals discover their most salient source of motivation: Income, Impact, Integrity, Intimacy, Independence. Novus Global coaches Jason Jaggard, Janet Breitenbach, Dan Leffelaar, and Rosanna Tomiuk discuss how the assessment was created, how to apply its results to your life, and the… Continue reading Identifying What Motivates You the Most with the 5i Assessment

Coaches Coaching Coaches

ON COACHING | Laura Leffelaar, Emily Dickinson, Janet Breitenbach, and Amanda Jaggard discuss how important it is for coaches to have their own coach. In the same way you wouldn’t want to go to a doctor who doesn’t have a doctor, the coaches illustrate how instrumental it is for coaches to be coached. Drawing from… Continue reading Coaches Coaching Coaches

Getting More Done in Less Time with Greater Satisfaction

ON COACHING | How do you get more done in less time, with more enjoyment and satisfaction? David Gerber, Dan Leffelaar, Janet Breitenbach, and Amanda Jaggard each share examples of clients who used coaching to do just that, despite inordinate limitations on time, resources, clarity, or imagination for what’s possible. They discuss our addiction to… Continue reading Getting More Done in Less Time with Greater Satisfaction

Growth, Personal Trainers and Asking the Right Questions

ON COACHING | In part two of the inaugural episode of On Coaching, Jason Jaggard, Janet Breitenbach, David Gerber, and Amanda Jaggard discuss the impact coaching has had on their lives—at the very beginning and in their lives today. They detail the importance of having a beginner’s mindset to grow, and how as coaches, they’re… Continue reading Growth, Personal Trainers and Asking the Right Questions

How To Be An Executive Coach and Gritty Beginnings

ON COACHING | Welcome to the inaugural episode of On Coaching! In this episode, Jason Jaggard, Janet Breitenbach, David Gerber, and Amanda Jaggard discuss the unique paths that led each of them to coaching, describing their gritty beginnings with the levity and clarity of hindsight. They discuss which attributes make for a good coach (and… Continue reading How To Be An Executive Coach and Gritty Beginnings