Emotion – Friend or Foe?

By Certified Action Coach Dave Beam

Elation, sadness, frustration, anger, contentment, humor; human emotions.  Are they your friends, and welcomed and encouraged, or are they your enemies, lurking to bring you trouble?

They can be both!  Human emotion is not the problem or the answer.  It is what it is, and it is definitely a part of the human experience.  In my coaching and counseling experience, emotion is wonderful when it is in its place!  Emotion enables us to connect with life and other people. 

FEAR – It’s not real, but you think it is!

By Certified Action Coach Dave Beam

One of the great joys that I experience as a business coach is helping people unravel and dispel their fears.  Today, I will help you do that as you read and understand.

We have a simple flip chart concerning fear.  False Expectations Appearing Real.  Here is an astonishing reality.  You can be a fearless person.  Being fearless is not being some kind of super hero.  It is in reality just being who you really are.  I hope I have your attention.

How to Be a Positive Influence in Other’s Lives - Part 3

By Certified Action Coach Dave Beam

We have been considering how to increase our influence in others lives.  We initially focused on the fact that to increase our influence we must focus our efforts on the things that we can truly change and stop wasting our mental energy worrying about things that fall only into our “circle of concern.” Following this paradigm, the one area over which we have the most control is ourselves. Hence, we must become better leaders and improve ourselves first if we ever wish to affect others. The first topic we considered was practicing good listening skills which help build a high mutual respect. Today we are looking at another quality of effective leadership, consistency.

How to Be a Positive Influence in Other’s Lives - Part 2

By Certified Action Coach Dave Beam

Listening.  Most people think that they do it well.  Most people really don’t do it well at all.  And if you want to have influence as a leader, it is essential.

Listening to understand is one of the most powerful ways to express respect for another human being.  You are giving your attention and care to someone else.  You are setting aside YOUR opinions, judgments, reactions, and conclusions, and engaging your mental energy for one purpose, to understand that person.