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Leadership can be learned but cannot be taught — the role of coaching
Leadership as with any skill is something we can learn. Paradoxically though, it cannot be taught. How do we navigate…
Sheril Mathews
I am an executive/leadership coach. Before LS, I worked for 20 years in corporate America in various technical & leadership roles. Have feedback? You can reach me at sheril@leadingsapiens.com.
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Using Deliberate Practice to Increase Leadership Effectiveness
Deliberate practice is one of the few proven research-backed frameworks to improve performance. But it's not used enough…
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The Ladder of Inference: A Tool for Better Decisions
Decisions are heavily influenced by our existing mental models of the world. What makes it tricky is that most of…
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Three Pillars and Two Contexts of Modern Leadership
Modern leadership can be a confusing minefield of topics. At the same time anyone can become good at it by…
Leaders have to Master Basics of the Human OS
The recent mass exodus of employees even from well-paid professional jobs has come as a wake-up call to the corporate…
A Framework for Year End Reviews
Doing regular reviews at midyear or yearend with ourselves are a good exercise. Frameworks can help us orient and ask…
Leadership Communication- The Hidden Role of Language
Language, because of its ubiquity and obviousness, does not get much attention from leaders and organizations as an area for…
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Types of Goals - Understanding the Nuances of Effective Goals
Goals and objectives are part of modern organizational reality. They are common parlance to the point where we often take…
Paradoxes of Leadership and Management
Leading and managing can be stressful and frustrating because of inherent paradoxes built into the nature of the beast. One…
Types of Contradictions in Organizations
Trying to eliminate something that by definition cannot be eliminated, can be a source of constant frustration. Understanding the nature…
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Can we Eliminate Self-Doubt? Should we Even Bother?
Self-doubt is often seen as an impediment to effective leadership or succcess in any other arena. We have an image…
Speed as the Wrong Criteria
The notion of speed is pervasive in our culture and ends up becoming the de-facto basis on which we make…