Thursday, January 31, 2013

Leadership Lessons from Lance Armstrong


Executive coaching sometimes covers the bases on helping leaders be the best at what they do. Sometimes, being the best means eating crow when something is your fault. An executive coach will help reunify the office or business so life can go on post-mistake.
While there are crisis intervention public relations folks who deal with the public during an emergency (i.e. a CEO was caught stealing) that’s not what we mean.  This type of executive coaching is designed for executives to be a better leader on a day to day basis.
There is no better person, perhaps, to prove our point on a very large scale than Lance Armstrong. Based on his recent interview with Oprah, we got so see just how far not coming clean after a huge mistake will get us – he wasn’t winning all those medals thanks to his team uniform designs.
To get started, here’s the best holistic (i.e. on a realistic day-to-day basis) approach to almost any mistake:

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