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Mish Middelmann @MishCoach

Systems-oriented leadership and team coach and member of the Enterprisecoach network

Joined June 2013
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Team coaches: Advanced seminar on navigating social media for business development begins in 90 minutes. Details and essential advance registration at widervalue.com/advanced-busi…

Advanced business development for team coaches - widervalue.com

Advanced business development For team coaches and consultants All offerings on this page are for skilled practitioners who already have substantial experience selling team coaching. If you don't yet...

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No matter how strong your strategic value proposition, key buying decisions are still powerfully affected by personal relationships. Are you fully applying your systems skills to business development? Seminar for team coaches and consultants November 4 widervalue.com/team-coaching…

The three i's of team coaching and consulting sales presence - widervalue.com

People buy from people. No matter how strong your strategic value proposition, key buying decisions are still powerfully affected by personal relationships. You can contribute to these relationships...

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It's a surprise to many people at work, that warring leaders can go from battle lines to bottom line with just a bit of help enterprisecoach.net/leaders-…

The high cost of unaddressed workplace conflict - real life example

How coaching repaired a leadership rift and restored productivity By Ronnie Ndlovu It is difficult for leaders to address workplace conflict. When the conflict is between leaders at the same level,...

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Professor Marc Kahn's book on the need for a systemic approach to business coaching, now more than ten years old, is still vitally relevant enterprisecoach.net/business… @MarcSimonKahn

Business coaching requires a systems approach - Enterprisecoach

Reading Marc Simon Kahn's brilliant new book, Coaching on the Axis, I am struck by the crucial role of a systemic approach in business coaching. It is necessary to ensure that business coaching...

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How leaders discovered the power of empathy in Cambodia enterprisecoach.net/empathy-…

Empathy isn't soft. It's strong - Enterprisecoach

By Eslinda Hamzah Recently I facilitated a two-day leadership intensive in a serene retreat space just beyond the bustle of Cambodia’s cities. Twelve energy sector changemakers from diverse locales...

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Truly generative team coaching is not well understood in the market. Team coaches need to apply our systemic and relationship skills to build our businesses. widervalue.com/team-coaching…

Team coaching is not for everyone - widervalue.com

Team coaching is a specialized niche within the broader range of coaching services. It takes an extra investment, both in practitioner skills and for the client to commit a whole team's time and...

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System-tuned team coaches and consultants with their eyes on the future are finding ways into strategic long term value conversations with clients in spite of all the short term results pressure out there. widervalue.com/advanced-busi…
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Making decisions of consequence and taking full accountability for the outcomes - what still distinguishes human leaders and entrepreneurs from agentic AI and bots. Thanks @RezaSatchu and congratulations on 15 years @NEXT_Canada enterprisecoach.net/making-c…

Making consequential decisions: where humans still have an edge over AI - Enterprisecoach

In Toronto at yesterday's 15th annual graduation event for entrepreneurs supported by NEXT Canada, I was struck by chair Reza Satchu's keynote: Leaders, your job is to make decisions of consequence,...

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"Leadership doesn't belong [only] to the leader. It belongs to the whole team." For a positive vision of leadership, read @dinozaf 's latest post dinozaf.substack.com/p/leade…
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The higher up your leadership role, the more you tend to depend on getting results by influence rather than by control. Regardless of your age, there is a lot to be gained from the concept of eldership. Here's what I wrote 15 years ago enterprisecoach.net/eldershi…

Eldership: Not just a scrapheap - Enterprisecoach

Facing up to getting old often brings feelings of shrinking, ending, being over the hill. Finding energy flagging, body sagging, milestones behind rather than in front leaves the go-go-go energy in...

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Billion-dollar businessman David Bradley, and fellow HBS alumnus, made a point ten years ago that remains relevant now: generosity of spirit is a key factor in long term business success. enterprisecoach.net/generosi…

Generosity of spirit: a must-have for good business - Enterprisecoach

My Dad was an optimist about business. When I was young and hotheaded, I remember explaining to him how wrong he was. And I still think business is not all sweetness and light. And yet, maybe thanks...

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How do you ramp up AI in your business, save on payroll, and yet keep the trust of the humans you do employ? Here's a practical case from a large international company @dinozaf and I worked with enterprisecoach.net/ai-resha…

AI reshaping workforce: Leadership team responses - Enterprisecoach

How does a global leadership team respond, when business success requires deep cuts in the workforce? As McKinsey said in January 2025, "leaders need to recognize their responsibility in driving gen...

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As a leader, how much of your time is spent feeding the energies of your top team? enterprisecoach.net/leadersh… @dinozaf

Leadership and control - Enterprisecoach

This is about what changes as we go up the leadership ladder in organizations. I have found that the higher I go up the corporate ladder, the less detail I can control. It sometimes feels as if my...

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Ten years ago Scientific American @sciam published analysis of the roles of both collaboration and competition in the historic success of the human species. It is still relevant today. enterprisecoach.net/the-true…

The true power of collaboration - Enterprisecoach

We grew up in an era dominated by individualism and competition. These human traits have driven the accumulation of wealth, power and technological advancement and taken the world to a place where we...

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It's easy to talk about having a purpose as a team at work. Harder for that to be truly meaningful to the team, its members and the business. Here's what Dino Zafirakos of the Enterprisecoach network has to say: dinozaf.substack.com/p/the-p…
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What I learned about deal making "to the limits of your own creativity” from my exit process as founding CEO of a tech company enterprisecoach.net/creating… @dinozaf

Creating space for change in business - Enterprisecoach

Just over ten years ago, I sold my shares in the hi-tech business I had co-founded, and stepped out of the founder-CEO role. Recently I asked the buyer (who took over as CEO) to look back on the time...

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The business case for smart collaboration psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…

How Smart Collaboration Works

People need to collaborate across a variety of specialisations. Here's how they can get past the barriers.

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Today as every Saturday, over 300,000 people of all ages turn out to over 2,000 local community 5 km walk/jog/runs under the parkrun banner in 22 countries. It is life giving and community building. Here's how one of the leaders sees his role enterprisecoach.net/sports-s…

Sports star turns to leading systemic change - Enterprisecoach

Long distance runners worldwide know Bruce Fordyce. He's famous for winning the 89 kilometre (55 mile) Comrades Ultramarathon 8 times in a row, and nine times in total. He is quite simply a legendary...

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Surprising ways an engineering maintenance team elicited better performance from employees and contractors at a major oil refinery. Even in hard industrial settings, relationship precedes results. enterprisecoach.net/shifting…

Shifting leadership culture in heavy industry - Enterprisecoach

Client: Major international oil company Problem: How to get more out of our people without relaxing the tight controls our industry needs Enterprisecoach contribution: Mish and Ronnie from the...

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Toronto's social entrepreneurs are putting their bodies on the line to innovate and take their enterprises to scale. What's emerging from my amazing clients enterprisecoach.net/2024/03/…
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