Leadership Coaching Newsletter




	September 2004 Leadership Coaching Newsletter This Month's Topic: Leadership Conversations "Five simultaneous conversations are essential to the art and discipline of leadership…
www.visionquestconsulting.com FREE Leadership Coaching Session Why Hire an Executive Coach? Client Results Developing Corporate Leadership Talent (Audio Message)	"The first courageous conversation is the conversation with the unknown future—what lies over the horizon…” The second conversation is the courageous conversation you’re not having with a present customer, a patient, a vendor, who all represent the future as it’s lapping up against the side of your organization….” The third conversation is the courageous conversation you’re not having between different divisions of the organization…” The fourth courageous conversation is the conversation you’re not having in your work group, among your colleagues—people you see every day, or people you e-mail or talk to on your mobile every day…” The fifth courageous conversation—the one on which I believe all others are predicated—is the courageous conversation you’re not having with that tricky moveable frontier called yourself." -- David Whyte The Leadership Challenge. If you are up for it, consider the following... What if you took this list of conversations and sat down for an hour and told yourself the truth by jotting down anything and everything that came to mind? What if you used these conversations and created a dialogue with your boss? What if you used these conversations as the basis for a discussion with your team at work? What if these conversations opened up dialogue that created an unimaginable future filled with possibility? Leadership Coaching Newsletter is written and produced by Wendy Capland. If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: wcapland@visionquestconsulting.com. We'd love to hear from you. To subscribe or unsubscribe, visit our website: Click Here. Feel free to forward this newsletter. Permission is granted to reproduce, copy, or distribute as long as copyright and full author contact information is included. Thank you. Copyright Wendy Capland 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004. All rights reserved.