Prickly or Pleasing. A person’s disposition…your disposition, is an important ingredient to your success. Bougainvillea is a pretty enough plant to cover a wall, but it is covered with thorns making it very difficult to shape and handle. I just met a person like the bougainvillea; competent to do their job, but prickly to work with. Do you think th…

Welcome to Saturday Morning Coaching with Coach Davis. This is Session number 5 in our series on Critical Thinking. Want to be successful in life? Then, critical thinking is an essential skill that you can learn. Do you remember having a class in how to think when you were in school? I don’t. Lots of people tell you what to think, but has anyone wo…

The person who thinks critically can reason and evaluate to make informed decisions and successfully solve problems for a desired outcome. Caution…within our thinking traps are hidden. Welcome to Saturday Morning Coaching with Coach Davis. Lots of people out there want to entertain you, Coach simply wants to help you be successful. Session number 4…

The hallmark for one who thinks critically is the ability to reason, assess, question, investigate, formulate, calculate, evaluate, and judge to make informed decisions and successfully solve problems for a desired outcome. You have power that controls what happens next…your future…in your personal life, in your professional life. It is the power t…

Your mind is truly yours. It is an amazing gift. It directs your life and gives you your results. If you don’t like what is going on in your life…the decisions you are making…it is time to check your thinking. Last week we started an exploration of Critical Thinking. It is so foundational to our success, Coach is spending several sessions on it. To…

Your mind is the Central Processing Unit of your life. Everything you do is controlled by your mind. You are constantly receiving stimuli, you run it through filters and select what comes into your mind. Chris Argyrus, former Harvard Professor, called this the ladder of inference. This is the starting point for how you captain your life. Saturday M…

I just got out of a meeting with the CEO of a mid-size, precision manufacturing company. His job is to fix the company. We spent a lot of time discussing the people who report to him and if it is possible to create a team. What a great question. Coach is going to bring some insight to you today on the conversations that go on about you. STARPOWER b…

Welcome back to Saturday Morning Coaching---with Coach Davis. My goal is to inspire and help you succeed. I firmly believe as Napoleon Hill would say that “thoughts are things.” All our action, all our action starts with a thought somewhere in our mind. Someone just said, what about an impulse…or is that manifested from a thought as well? Let’s jus…

Welcome to Saturday Morning Coaching with Coach Davis. Did you know there are two types of conflict? One is good to have in an organization the other is not. One can make things better, the other can hurt you and your reputation. Get ready for insight that can help you get into positive action. STARPOWER begins now.…

STARPOWER: Exploring Appreciative Inquiry Welcome to Saturday Morning Coaching, I’m your host Coach Davis. Starting today, you will notice the format to be less structured and a little less formal and hopefully a bit more personal. Welcome, all the faithful people in Columbus, OH. What a nice turnout each week. Appreciative Inquiry…heard of it? STA…