by Jim Struck | May 28, 2020 | Articles, Personal Development
Harvesting – Part One “Natural Wisdom seems to suggest that the way you are toward your life is the way that your life will be toward you.” Fr. John O’Donohue Father John O’Donohue was described to me as a “very” Irish priest. That was the opening line my friend used...
by Jim Struck | May 17, 2020 | The Coach Is In Blog
Courage is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Physical courage is bravery in the face of physical pain, hardship, even death or threat of death, while moral courage is the ability to act rightly in the face of...
by Jim Struck | Apr 30, 2020 | Articles, Leadership Effectiveness, Personal Development
Courage and Leadership “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” –Winston Churchill From time to time different things will enter my brain as possible topics to write about. For the past couple of weeks I...
by Jim Struck | Apr 15, 2020 | The Coach Is In Blog
Welcome back. It has been another two weeks of Sheltering in Place. Another two weeks of quarantine and watching the numbers from the COVID-19 rise. Another two weeks of figuring the best ways of coping. I have seen a number of positive things of how people are coping...
by Jim Struck | Mar 27, 2020 | Articles, Personal Development
Wendell Berry wrote: ‘Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is ancient fear of the unknown and it is your first bond...
by Jim Struck | Mar 5, 2020 | The Coach Is In Blog
In my last posting I mentioned Melissa, whose ‘energy bucket’ was the lowest I have ever seen. She had been working 12 hours a day seven days a week for seven months. She was exhausted and experiencing daily headaches, had stopped exercising, wasn’t eating well, and...
by Jim Struck | Feb 16, 2020 | The Coach Is In Blog
Her name was Melissa. She was part of a group of leaders I was working with. That day we had just covered each person’s personality profile, and I was introducing them to the “Energy Bucket” and the concept of energy centers (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional,...
by Jim Struck | Jan 31, 2020 | Articles, Emotional Intelligence
I have been working with three people around their emotional intelligence awareness. If it is not an obvious skill issue, organizations are increasingly looking at a person’s social and emotional skills for the reason(s) why they are not more successful. EQ (emotional...
by Jim Struck | Jan 18, 2020 | The Coach Is In Blog
I was out of town on business last week, and was flipping through the channels when I came upon a Lone Ranger show from 1955. I smiled, remembering that I had watched a lot of LR shows in the late 50’s. There was 20 minutes left so I decided to watch. Other than the...
by Jim Struck | Jan 3, 2020 | Articles, Leadership Effectiveness
I am writing this on January 1, 2020. You will read this on January 6,2020. One year ends and another begins. Some years end and we are glad to see them go. 1980 was one of those for me. Other years have enough positive memories that we are sorry to see them go. 1993...
