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Did you know that your thoughts and behaviors are driven by questions? If you want to understand how to manage your thinking and make better decisions, which leads to more powerful actions, tune in to learn how to build your “question thinking” strategy.

Receive valuable insight on how to:

• Notice your questions, so you can analyze them for effectiveness.
• Re-craft your questions, so you can develop more meaningful life experiences and improve your relationships.
• Understand human nature and motivation, so your interactions with others are more fulfilling and produce life-giving energy.
• Efficiently move from thinking to decision-making to tasks that provide greater self-awareness, self-leadership, and team building!

Resources

• Choice Map
• The Inquiry Institute
• An Introduction to Question Thinking eLearning Course
• Muskoka Woods Leadership Studio

About Marilee Adams, Ph.D.

Marilee Adams, Ph.D. is an author, organizational consultant and facilitator, executive coach, and professional speaker. She is the founder and president of the Inquiry Institute, a consulting, coaching, and educational organization. Dr. Adams is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University in the Key Executive Leadership Program and is part of the faculty of the Institute for Life Coach Training, the Adler Institute, and Expedition Coaching, and is a coach with the Society of Organizational Learning.

Dr. Adams’ books include Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 12 Powerful Tools for Leadership, Coaching and Life, 3rd edition (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2016) and The Art of the Question: A Guide to Short-Term Question-Centered Therapy (John Wiley & Sons, 1998) and Teaching that Changes Lives: 12 Mindset Tools for Igniting the Love of Learning (Berrett-Koehler, 2013) and won a Gold Medal IPPY Publishers Award. Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is an Amazon #1 Bestseller in Learning in Organizations and Business and has sold about 200,000 copies in 18 languages.

Dr. Adams works and speaks in the private and public sector for Fortune 500 companies, major government agencies, international consulting firms, and leading universities. Her clients include Ameriprise, AREVA, Inc., Brother Int’l, DHL, Johnson & Johnson, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Lockheed Martin; the Social Security Administration, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Navy, NASA Goddard, the National Defense University (NDU), U.S. Departments of Treasury, Interior, and Education; Toronto General Hospital, Booz Allen, Organizational Development Network, Society for Human Resource Management; Georgetown McDonough School of Business, George Mason University, Harvard University, and Princeton University, among many others.

Dr. Adams holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Fielding Graduate University.

Our hyperconnected world offers constant distractions. Yet, as coaches and entrepreneurs, it’s important to focus and bring our best selves to all we do.

In his best-selling book, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport shares the results of his recent research on the power of focus and lays out some key strategies that will help us all. In this episode, we’d like to share some of those insights with you.

Tune in to hear more about:

• What deep work is and why it’s important to increase your value and improve your skills
• The challenges of doing deep work and the cost of not doing it
• 5 practical strategies for eliminating distractions and increasing productivity

Take time to create a robust vision for your New Year. As January 1, 2020, rapidly approaches, it's important to look toward what's just around the corner. Now is a perfect time to not only examine yourself but also your businesses and your clients. We're not just talking about goals. Today, we invite you to go deeper into your calling. Not just the "what" but "how" to go about it. Plus, "who" you need to become in the New Year. So start w/ clean slate. And approach New Year's goals a bit differently.

Let God take His Divine Paintbrush and paint a new vision!

• Dare to dream differently about not only what He wants for you, but also what he wants for the people you are called to serve.
• Take time to think through what you need to stop doing, so you'll have time and mental space to do what you are called to well.
• Dare to do different things as you uncover how your vision can be realized.
• Redefine who you are and who you need to become, so the vision can come to fruition.

It's that time again -- with the 9th issue of Opening the Mailbox, we answer your most-asked questions.

You'll walk away with knowledge on:

1) How to manage your personal and professional personas on Facebook, so you can maximize one of the greatest marketing tools of the decade.

2) Holiday Marketing: how you can reach out and get noticed over the holidays when everyone is so distracted.

3) How to take notes, while being fully present and fully engaged in listening to your clients.

4) How to keep clients on track, when they go off on tangents, so they can achieve the goal they came into coaching to achieve.

If you're a coach trying to build a successful business, listen in as we unpack The Prayer Powered Entrepreneur. In this episode, Kim Avery will show you how to lay down the hurry, worry, and hustle of business-building by more intentionally partnering with God in the work He is doing in the world. Offering real-world experience, exciting stories, and practical tools, this is an episode you can’t afford to miss.

Your countdown to success begins... now!

• • Learn the 5 Principles of B.R.I.E.F. Prayer for the busy, business professional.
• • Better understand your business ups and downs by embracing the fact that God wants to grow your businesses primarily by growing you.
• • Armor up with 3 Power Tools that equip you for the entrepreneurial mission to which God has called you.
• • Bridge the gap between hurry and worry with a Divine Treasure Hunt full of God’s answers to prayer

Pre-order your copy of The Prayer Powered Entrepreneur today and qualify amazing pre-release bonuses at www.PrayerPowered.com.

Join the free, 31-Day Prayer Challenge at www.PrayerPowered.com/31.

If you've ever felt called to coaching women in leadership, tune in and let God unravel the leadership gifts in your clients' lives! God calls women to work. To manage gifts, talents, and abilities. Yet, women can wrestle with embracing and exercising workplace leadership, and men can wrestle with how to best work with female colleagues. Today, Helen Mitchell joins us to talk about how to appreciate, value and draw forth strengths in women (and men!) and how to maximize the balance of working together. 

Join us at the intersection of faith and work to find out more about:

• Who is a leader and what is leadership? 
• What is the biblical basis for leadership in the marketplace we see today?
• How to activate people in their calling and accelerate the transformation of leaders and organizations
• Why women make great leaders, and why there are challenges for women leaders.

About Helen Mitchell:

Helen M. Mitchell lives at the intersection of faith and reality by integrating her pastoral,

business and academia experience.  Her passion is to activate people in their calling and to

accelerate and facilitate transformation of leaders and organizations. She has held leadership

positions with Fortune 500 companies, a Mega Church and a prominent Christian University.

She is an Ethics and Leadership professor in the Crowell School of Business at Biola University.

As the Director of the Talbot Center for Faith, Work & Economics at the Talbot School of

Theology at Biola University, she works with churches and pastors on faith and work

integration. Helen is also a leadership & strategy coach, speaker, author and oversees the

leader learning initiative for Convene Corp. She started her business career with AT&T

becoming a Vice President at the age of 30 with Lucent Technologies. As a licensed pastor, she

was the architect and visionary of the Saddleback@Work workplace ministry at Saddleback

Church.

Helen holds a Masters in Organizational Leadership from Biola University and a Masters in

Biblical and Theological Studies from the Talbot School of Theology, at Biola University. She

also attended the Senior Executive Program at Columbia University. www.helenmitchell.org.

Watch Helen's "Work as Worship" videos here: www.helenmitchell.org.

If you thought the impact of Christian Coaching was limited to changing individual lives and corporate environments, your horizons will be broadened today. Listen in to our discussion with John Ramstead — Senior and Junior! — to see how Christian Coaching is at work changing the culture of a nation.

About John Ramstead

John has been married for 25 years to his best friend, Donna, and has three incredible boys. It has been three years since a near-fatal accident changed the trajectory of his life. Without the incredible support of God, his family and amazing friends he would not be the person he is today.

As he recovered, John sought discernment as to why God saved him and what He now wants him to do. God gave John a clear new calling: pour the life he’s been given into other leaders to equip and inspire them for work in His Kingdom.
John’s deep faith and his many years as a Navy fighter pilot, entrepreneur, Fortune 500 leader and board chair have been redirected into an amazingly successful coaching practice and popular leadership podcast.

Learn more about John at www.EternalLeadership.com.

Ontology, the study of being, is at the heart of everything we do as coaches. In this conversation, three top leaders discuss how coaching can be the hub of a wheel that brings out the best of the many growth tools available to us, tools such as assessments, groups, books, workshops, and more.

You’ll also learn:

• • The key differences between coaching and other tools that help people grow
• • Why coaching is a holistic and integrative approach
• • The Power of Inside-Out Change

Learn more about Convene here: www.Convenenow.com

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If you are serving others and feel like the life changes they are implementing move at a glacial pace, discover how coaching can make a tremendous difference. In today’s episode, you’ll hear how one pastor added coaching to his ministry toolkit and experienced the following results and more: 

• Replaced the monotony of pastoral care meetings with the excitement of leaning on the Holy Spirit to direct him as to what to say and when to say it.
• Released the pressure of always giving the right answers, and instead, learned how to ask powerful questions.
• Relinquished control of the outcome and let God transform lives.
• Reinvigorated his passion for pouring into people.

About Lee Bezotte

Lee Bezotte is a pastor, author, digital marketer, and life coach. In addition to all of that, he is raising three sons alongside of his wife of 27 years. He’s passionate about finding online tools that make being an entrepreneur easier and has even created one of his own. You can find out more at www.mycoachportal.net.

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