by Pam Hernandez | Mar 21, 2023 | Change, Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Rescuing
“Why do you expect less from your employees than you do of yourself?” said my manager to me early in my career. I don’t remember the specific situation, but I was probably providing an excuse (thinking it was a valid reason) why one of my employees wasn’t performing...
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 | 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 | Jan 26, 2022 | Children, Coaching, Leadership, Listening, Mothers, Personal Growth
I was a lifeguard at a country club when I was in college. While frying my skin in the Nebraska sun, I sat in a lifeguard chair and listened to little kids yell at their mothers for hours proclaiming, “Look at me, Mommy; Look at me.” (That, and “Marco-Polo”). Their...
by Pam Hernandez | Dec 9, 2021 | Change, Leadership, learning, Personal Growth
I often talk and write about the fact that we all perceive the world, ourselves, and ourselves in the world through many unique lenses, most of which we are unaware. These lenses may have been formed by: The part of the world we grew up in Our family of origin Our...
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...
