Darcy Luoma Coaching and Consulting

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Stop Asking the Wrong Questions

We have encouraged you to bring your inner coach to work. Wondering what that means? Worried that you need to be ready to teach everybody how to do their jobs and call all the plays? Not sure how to do that given all the additional challenges in the world right now?

Good news, coaching is all about getting other people to help you do the work. With my clients, I don’t need to figure out exactly what they need to do. My job is to help them figure out what they want or need to do next.

And if you are coaching at work, you get everyone else to problem-solve and innovate.

How does this happen? By getting curious and asking lots of questions.

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Coaching lessons for life

by DLCC Coach Ndidi Yaucher

My family is excited about the spring season. Not only do we get longer days, warmer weather, and fresher air, but at our house, we also get the beginning of spring sports. My kids are athletes, and they love to spend their time outdoors training and preparing for their seasons in dance, soccer, track and field, and baseball.

A lot of the things our kids have learned in athletics are important life lessons. And they are not just for kids! I use these in life and business as well. Here are a few lessons we’ve all taken to heart: [Read more…]

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Gifts from the Madness

You lose a game. You get passed over for the promotion. You don’t make the starting lineup.

I am sure you have failed at something in your life. I sure have. But luckily, not too many of us experience a failure as dramatic and talked about as the Virginia Cavaliers loss to the University of Maryland – Baltimore County in the first round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament. [Read more…]

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How to Eat an Elephant

If you made some small, super achievable resolutions in January, good for you! Hopefully, you are sticking with them and seeing results.

But if you, like many of us, put a lot of big ideas on the table for 2019, you may be wondering how you’ll eat your way through everything you put on your plate. [Read more…]

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Help Your Resolutions Last

By DLCC Coach Sharon Barbour

I heard recently that the average New Year’s resolution lasts 17 days. 17 days! That’s a bit of a downer. But honestly, it makes me feel better for the times when my resolution didn’t even see the light of day number 8! [Read more…]

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