Amie Devero invited into Forbes Coaches Council
For immediate release Amie Devero invited into Forbes Coaches Council Forbes Coaches Council Is an Invitation-Only Community for Leading Business and Career Coaches Tampa, FL, May 1, 2018 — Amie Devero, Managing Partner of Amie Devero Coaching and Consulting, has been accepted into the Forbes Coaches Council, an invitation-only community for leading business and career […]
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
We have all heard of the idea of the self-fulfilling prophecy. Mostly, the way we use that idiom is as a sort of shorthand for a superstition that if we think something bad will happen it mysteriously will turn out that way. But there is an insidious, and verifiable truth behind the phrase. Maybe you […]
Great Managers are Made Not Born
In business, we regularly promote our best and brightest performers to positions in which they have absolutely no expertise, experience or knowledge, and expect them to perform despite a total dearth of instruction, training, practice or correction. “Nonsense” you say. “People rise based on their track records.” Yes, to a point that’s true. But consider […]
To Coach or to Manage? That is the Question!
More and more frequently, executives and managers are being charged with coaching their teams. But within organizations, there is typically little support provided to help with preparing managers for this role. Instead, managers find themselves offering coaching out of context, or confusing management with coaching, or just feeling like failures in this unexplored terrain. I […]
Elevating Others Makes Them Better
Are there people in your team or life who are coasting? I think we all have experienced this principle, that a few folks on a team do most of thew work while a larger percentage do what seems like the bare minimum to get by. The challenge for me, as a coach, is that I am almost […]
The Wall
I was reflecting back on an earlier career yesterday, back when I was a personal trainer in the early 90’s. Although my passion at the time was working with athletes and people in post-cardiac rehab, unfortunately those populations often found the cost of personal training prohibitive, so they were but a small fraction of my […]