Shane Kinkennon | Certified Executive Coach for CEOs

Use Affirmations in Your Exec Suite to Boost Capacity for Success

Yes your team is full of accomplished C-suite leaders. Do it anyway.

Shane KinkennonAugust 25, 2021

Is Executive Coaching For Me?

If your answers to these four questions below are yes, then there is a pretty good chance.

Shane KinkennonFebruary 4, 2021

Cheat Sheet To Making Your Business's Big Decisions

When the world is surging and contorting, decisiveness is what your business desperately needs. Thankfully, it can be practiced. One’s approach to it can established and refined. Choose with confidence with these six short steps.

Shane KinkennonFebruary 3, 2021management, businessmanagement, leadership, decisiveness, decisions, decide

Mentor, Jump In and Rescue, or Coach?

Here in contemporary times, when businesses face immediate and crushing challenges, the answer is (almost) always to coach. And that’s because, by and large, people don’t really like advice, and they struggle to follow it. And no one likes being bossed around.

Shane KinkennonDecember 23, 2020

I Talked My Boss Into Meditating; It Didn't Work

Meditation is terrific. It’s spectacular. But as with most good ideas, it can’t be hoisted upon someone. A human has got to get there on their own.

Shane KinkennonNovember 19, 2020

Pure Decisiveness Is Overrated

For your business to maintain an edge, you simply must be decisive. Set yourself to be adequately informed enough to decide quickly. And then get on with it.

Shane KinkennonNovember 11, 2020

Small Daily Choices Are Where Our Integrity Is Revealed

Life is short. Integrity is worth practicing as though every little moment counts, and as though the only piece of evidence that matters is the last one.

Shane KinkennonNovember 6, 2020

This Circle Taped to My Wall Is Keeping Me Calm-ish Today

I voted. Now it’s time to acknowledge that where things go from here is out of my hands. Here are five ways I’m boxing up and set aside election stress in order to crank out something that resembles productive workdays this week.

Shane KinkennonNovember 4, 2020

Lived Values Are This CEO's Key To People-First Leadership

Dan Maguire set out on an experiment in corporate values. He vowed to not merely have them but actually implement them in such a way that they both philosophically and functionally drive the business. He saw it as an avenue to put people first in very concrete ways. What he learned is rather extraordinary.

Shane KinkennonOctober 26, 2020

Crappy Relationship With a Leadership Colleague? Manage the Conflict Like This

When in a state of unresolved conflict that’s gone personal with a coworker in the leadership ranks, try these five techniques.

Shane KinkennonOctober 6, 2020

You've Got Executive Coaching All Wrong

From the idea that it’s about advice to its pigeonholing as professional development, I dismantle common misconceptions and myths about executive coaching.

Shane KinkennonSeptember 28, 2020

Leaders With Integrity Practice These Habits

In my observation through decades as a student of business and organizational leadership, integrity is the characteristic that makes good leaders great. Here are the six habits they practice.

Shane KinkennonSeptember 23, 2020leadership, integrity, ethical leadership, leading with integrity, management

Your World Needs You To Use Your PTO (and use it well)

If you want your team at the very best, encourage them to use their PTO to its fullest and to log off completely when they do. And when they’re sick, let them curl up in peace with a blanket and chicken soup until they’re better. You’ll get a more dynamic, engaged version of then when they return and in general.

Shane KinkennonSeptember 16, 2020