by Pam Hernandez | Jun 15, 2022 | Coaching, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Personal Growth, Physician's Academy, Positive Psychology
When I was an executive at an insurance company, I read the following: “Leadership is as much about who you are as what you do.” I firmly believed this sentiment, but most of the leadership development I received throughout my corporate career focused on the “doing”...
by Pam Hernandez | Apr 5, 2022 | Change, Clarity, Coaching, Leadership Coaching, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Self Acceptance, Strengths, Well-being
I sometimes feel I’ve gone through my life like a chocolate dipped ice cream cone. I have a deceptively solid exterior – nice looking, pleasing and totally hiding what’s underneath. I’m taking a class where we’re asked to identify one big change we’d like to make in...
by Pam Hernandez | Mar 22, 2022 | Change, Coaching, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, learning, Personal Growth, Self Acceptance
I had several impactful coaching appointments this last week. My coaching approach involves working on clients’ inner and outer game. The outer game focuses on tasks the client would like to get better at: giving feedback, delegating, listening, building relationships...
by Pam Hernandez | Sep 15, 2021 | Career, Change, Coaching, Helping, Leadership Coaching, Strengths, Well-being
I just finished reading the latest novel by one of my favorite authors, Louise Penny. It’s entitled The Madness of Crowds. This is Penny’s 17th installment in the adventures of Inspector Gamache. Readers have fallen in love with the inhabitants of the fictional...
by Pam Hernandez | Aug 31, 2021 | Clarity, Coaching, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Coaching
As a man is, so he sees. –William Blake, 1799* I think you can switch this quotation to read, “As a man sees, so he is.” Of course, if I were writing this, I would replace man with person. I often use the phrase, “How we see changes what we see.” It’s a...
by Pam Hernandez | Apr 9, 2020 | Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Personal Growth, Relationships, Self Acceptance, Well-being
Here is the entire stanza from a William Wordsmith’s poem published in 1807. So once it would have been—’tis so no more; I have submitted to a new control: A power is gone, which nothing can restore; A deep distress hath humanized my soul. Very prescient words...
