Helanie Scott

Align4Profit Leadership Development Blog

Helanie ScottLeadership development may be the most important activity in any organization. In my quest to helping men and women become more and more effective leaders, I share weekly articles that are a quick read with a promise to give your leaders actionable tips they can implement immediately.

It’s my goal to share my experience together with candid and pragmatic advice founded on deep research.

Read and enjoy! To make sure you don’t miss any updates, let me send you a weekly article to your email.

June 10, 2012

Fabulous feedback from recent CoachQuest grads

At CoachQuest we take feedback and metrics seriously. Not only do we love the anecdotal comments we receive, but we pore over the program evaluations very carefully. Last week’s CoachQuest […]
May 14, 2012

The Leadership Coaching Framework should be built Brick by Brick

The practice of a leadership coaching framework reminds me of a story I once read that goes a little like this… A man was walking along a city street and […]
February 1, 2012

Don’t Take My Word for It

“No one likes to hear you toot your own horn,” I was told from an early age. “It’s bad form and very unbecoming!” If I had know then what I […]
January 16, 2012

The Leadership Coaching Box Bears Many Gifts

Sharpening your leadership coaching skill is essential for achieving sustainable results. Coaching helps you advance the skills, knowledge and attitude of employees to perform at their peak. According to the […]
October 24, 2011

Helping workers become more valuable and productive relies on Leadership Coaching

Coaching in the news from India. In an interesting article from Fast Company, Phaneesh Murthy, CEO of iGate Patni, a top-10 Indian outsourcing company, where Murthy oversees 26,000 employees he […]
October 10, 2011

Find your Voice and Coach your team to use theirs

Extraordinary leadership is about creating a climate where the truth is told, brutal facts are confronted, pink elephants are discussed, solutions are debated, commitments are made and kept, and unified […]
September 30, 2011

The Leadership Solution

Bring it Up! Leadership must have courage and humility to address the Real issues and Real facts. Talk it Up! Leadership must use candor and engage in lively debate. Wrap […]
September 27, 2011

Leadership is Un-REAL

Does Leadership provide safe passage? Do you use your voice and inspire others to find theirs? 90% of employees… agree that they do not receive honest performance reviews with meaningful […]
September 19, 2011

Critical Coaching Leadership Competencies

Courage and Humility Courage is the ability to act right and face opposition, uncertainty, tradition and intimidation. The courage to think, act and communicate differently and challenge our outdated perceptions, […]
September 5, 2011

Why Enhance your Leadership Coaching Style?

Coaching has become a significant trend in leadership development over the past 20 years, and organizations are not only relying on external coaches, but realizing that enhanced talent management, improving […]
August 22, 2011

I Want It Yesterday!

I asked more than 6,000 professionals in the Leadership, IT, Publishing, Recruiting, Entrepreneurial and other related LinkedIn interest groups, “What’s Your Biggest Leadership Pain?” I even gave them a few […]
December 7, 2015

How to Achieve Leadership Balance of Power

We all come to leadership loaded with qualities and shortcomings. We call this unique combination of pluses and minuses personality. On a level we cannot always discern, personality determines whether […]
November 23, 2015

Thanksgiving for Leaders

It’s no secret that many leaders, especially women, push themselves too hard these days. We drive ourselves to the brink before we step back to breathe. Many of us fail […]
November 16, 2015

How Tomatoes Can Save You Time and Money

In the late 1980s, Francesco Cirillio developed and introduced a technique named after the tomato. Despite the playful name, his time-management discipline can help leaders like you be more productive […]
November 2, 2015

Emotional Intelligence: Why Relationships Always Trump Skills.

Here’s a fact that should be obvious, but some leaders tend to overlook it and fail to address it. Humans are emotionally driven. There’s no getting around it. When deciding […]
October 19, 2015

WARNING: Don’t Try to Lead Without Ikigai

According to the Japanese concept of ikigai, everyone needs a reason for living. The French call it “raison d’être.” Literally “reason to be.” But no matter how you say it, […]
October 5, 2015

Six Questions that Engage Employees

One of the most disheartening statistics for leaders concerns employee engagement. Only 13 percent of people employed around the world are fully engaged. As many as 24 percent, actively disengaged […]