Columnist: Joan Washburn, Executive Coach

Joan WashburnJoan Washburn, ACC, is a master at coaching busy, professionals as they zero in on their top priorities, stop wasting their precious time and energy on things that don’t matter and produce the results they’re aiming for.

She also works with leaders of large companies as well as small business owners to deliver professional development trainings designed to produce resilient and productive employees, happy customers and increased profitability!

Her on-line programs are guaranteed to deliver practical tools and build essential skills her clients use every day both personally and professionally to succeed with ease and grace vs. stress and struggle. Her clients come to her because they feel a need for her expertise in accelerating results, managing change with ease, or there is something at stake and it is big!

Joan is credentialed by the International Coach Federation, a Licensed Trainer by the Academy for Coaching Excellence and a graduate of the Wharton Business School AMP.

Prior to starting Washburn Endeavours, LLC (WE) in 2006, she was the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for a division of Siemens Medical (PETNET Solutions), where she built a world class organization comprised of sales, marketing, product development and technical support specialists to address the growing opportunity and increasing competitive nature in the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) market.

At PETNET she led the development and implementation of a training program and the associated selling aids that resulted in a sales force consistently ranked #1 in the industry. She had $10 Million dollar P&L responsibility in 2005.

Learn more about Joan in our June 2016 issue.

Professional Development through Encouragement

  • by Pat
  • 11 Months ago
  • Comments Off
You can motivate anyone. You can encourage only someone you believe in. The research on motivation pretty much comes down to this: Praise works better than criticism. Encouragement, on the other hand, involves the acknowledgment of a negative thing – something that the person being encouraged doesn’t know they should or should not be doing. […]

Success is Simpler Than You Think

  • by Pat
  • 11 Months ago
  • Comments Off
Joan Washburn shares a new definition of success. Watch this episode to learn a simple definition of success that you can apply every day. Watch other videos in Joan’s series, Coffee Break with Coach Joan: Quick Tips for Busy Professionals

When Encouragement Empowers

  • by Pat
  • 1 Year ago
  • Comments Off
Encouragement. It sounds like such a small thing. Subtle. Cute. It’s what we do with timid puppies. But encouragement isn’t cute –it’s powerful. When you’re encouraging, you’re literally instilling courage. That’s huge. And that’s hard. Here are some quick tips on how to make a difference in a person’s life through encouragement. You can motivate […]

My Favorite Definition of Leadership

  • by Pat
  • 1 Year ago
  • Comments Off
Joan Washburn with Washburn Endeavours shares her favorite definition of Leadership. Learn a new and empowering definition of Leadership in this episode. Watch other videos in Joan’s series, Coffee Break with Coach Joan: Quick Tips for Busy Professionals

The Art of Saying “No”

  • by Pat
  • 1 Year ago
  • Comments Off
You know the adage “If you want something done, ask a busy person.” Well, that’s all fine and good unless YOU are the busy person! Learning how to say “no” can be a life-saver. When most of the executives I coach first come to me they are completely overwhelmed simply because they don’t know how […]

Multi-Tasking vs. Switch-Tasking

  • by Pat
  • 1 Year ago
  • Comments Off
Would you like to accomplish more in one day? Join Certified Coach and Professional Trainer, Joan Washburn, for her discussion on the most recent neuroscience on Multi-tasking and how it negatively affects you! Use her tips to accomplish more in a day. Watch other videos in Joan’s series, Coffee Break with Coach Joan: Quick Tips […]

Four Powerful Words

  • by Pat
  • 1 Year ago
  • Comments Off
There are four powerful words my clients learn that help them live a life of more ease, grace and success. They use these 4 words when we they are up to something big, there’s something they know they have to do to next and they begin to think: “I don’t want to” or “I don’t […]

One Sure Way to Look Totally Competent

  • by Pat
  • 1 Year ago
  • Comments Off
Joan Washburn shows how asking for support is giving another a gift. Learn how asking for support can change your life in this episode. Watch other videos in Joan’s series, Coffee Break with Coach Joan: Quick Tips for Busy Professionals

The Five Stages of a Successful Project

  • by Pat
  • 1 Year ago
  • Comments Off
I was reminded recently of the five stages of a successful project when I began one of my own that is moving very slowly in Stage 2. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start at the beginning. Whether you’re remodeling an empty fruit stand into a thriving training center, like me, or starting a […]

A Key to Fully Engaged Employees

  • by Pat
  • 1 Year ago
  • Comments Off
Joan Washburn shares an option to giving advice. Learn what our brains do when receiving advice. Watch other videos in Joan’s series, Coffee Break with Coach Joan: Quick Tips for Busy Professionals
Page 3 of 6«12345 » ...Last »