Susan Combs
Susan Combs is a professional credentialed coach who helps clients enhance their leadership skills. She manages corporate mentor programs, the ATHENA WIN Executive Connections groups and Leadership Lansing. She is a licensee of the Fit Leader Program. Visit SusanCombsCoaching.com.
Questions with purpose: Educing information and ideas is all in the phrasing
What makes a good question?
In my 20 years as a coach and consultant, I’ve worked with many clients and organizations to think about the types of questio…
Pause and Refresh: Recharging for Greater Productivity
During a recent lunch with a former colleague who is also a longtime executive vice president of human resources, she mentioned that she was proactively star…
Buttressing Culture Collapse
With the shift to remote and hybrid work, there is a nagging worry among leaders about culture collapse in their organizations. However, a new Gallup poll pr…
Send in the SWOT Team
Google “strategy” and you will find a lot of different templates and options for developing a business strategy. A tried-and-true place to start in brainstor…
Building a Team: Four Stages of Development Hold True
It takes time for a team to gel. Some studies show we spend 60% of our time with teams. When building a new team, it is often helpful to remember the four st…
Behavior from the Top will be Emulated Among Other Leaders
One of my new coaching clients is a plant manager who is struggling with high turnover on his team. He is fabulous on the metrics side — getting quality prod…
Latest Generation Brings New Values Set to the Workplace
It seems like just yesterday organizations were all abuzz about millennials: How do we recruit them, retain them and motivate them?
Well, those millennial…
Gen Z Brings New Values Set to the Workplace
It seems like just yesterday organizations were all abuzz about millennials: How do we recruit them, retain them and motivate them?
Well, those millennial…
Ask Workers How They Feel about Returning to the Office
This summer I’ve been canvassing clients on their organizations’ return-to-work timeline and structure. All structures are in play depending on the company, …
Summer Business Reads
Two great books to add to your summer reading list are “Lead to Lift Up Others: Leadership Insights From a Caregiver’s Perspective” and “Inclusify: The Power…