Working from Home Without Losing Your Marbles
For some of us working, and leading, from home is both a recent requirement and our new reality. Added to this is that now, our kids are with us learning from home! As I’ve watched…
Author Archives: Dr. Mike Cherry, Ed.D., PCC, BCC
Leading Virtual Teams
By Drs. Lesley Page, Sheila Boysen and Michael Cherry COVID-19, 2020 presidential election, stock market turmoil, suspension/delay of the NCAA, NBA, NHL and MBA seasons, closure of Disney World theme parks, and the list goes…
Don’t Panic: Leadership During Uncertain Times
Dramatic stock market swings, Corona Virus, election year…we are currently in an uncertain time. During these moments, I return to the question; what can I, as a business owner and leader in my organization, do…
Exploring the Use of Internal Coaches
Exploring the Use of Internal Coaches Note: This paper is also part of the International Coach Federation’s Research Portal. Dusti R. Baldwin Dr. Michael Cherry, Ed.D., PCC Abstract While current studies on the subject have…
The GROW Model for Framing Performance Conversations
Developed in 1984 by Graham Alexander, Alan Fine and Sir John Whitmore, GROW is an acronym for a four part approach to structure a coaching and/or performance conversation. The four phases are: Goals, Reality, Options…
Talent Management – Building Your Bench of Future Leaders
Many organizations face a common concern, who will be our next cohort of leaders? We can take that one step further by asking who will be the next cohort of trained, effective leaders? According to…
What can we learn about leadership from the Patron Saint of Educators?
Note: This article has also appeared in the May edition of the Catholic Cemetery Magazine (Volume 57, Number 5). By Drs. Michael Cherry, Lesley Page, Sheila Boysen and Keith Lavine During the School of Leadership…
Lessons Learned: Graduate Student Assessment
This article was published earlier: Page, L., & Cherry, M. (2017). Lessons learned: Graduate student assessment. Assessment Update: Progress, Trends, and Practices in Higher Education, 29(6), 1-15. Similar to many other graduate programs, the…
Does Organizational and Leadership Coaching Make a Difference?
I am pleased to share a recent article co-authored by Dr. Sheila Boysen, Wende Amerie, Michael Takagawa and myself. This collaborative effort explored organizational outcomes of Executive Leadership Coaching and was published in the International…
Putting the ‘Spirit’ in Spiritual Leadership
This article recently appeared in the January, 2018 edition (Vol. 57, Number 1) of the Catholic Cemetery Magazine. As we read the November issue of the Catholic Cemetery Magazine, we were struck by the multiple…