John Agno
CEC, CBC
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Leadership Coaching Expert
John Agno Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Leadership development, executive coaching and business coaching.
- Best Sellers
- Coached to Success --- a year of daily desktop coaching insights. ISBN: 0975856103
- Career Focus
- I exist to serve by professionally questioning conventional wisdom.
- Affiliation
- President and CEO of Signature, Inc.and founder of the 1,300 member Coach to Coach Network
John Agno is a seasoned corporate executive, entrepreneur, author and management consultant who today coaches senior executives and business owners to reach decision-making clarity by exploring unintended consequences of their future actions in a safe and confidential environment. John helps you see things you are missing, affirms whatever progress you have made, tests your perceptions and lets you know how you are doing. His developmental coaching is personal training that helps you focus your natural abilities in the right direction. The coaching allows your inner-potential to erupt outward through effective leadership; to develop commitment within organizations and in a world of "free agents" and "volunteer" talent.
Coaching is a powerful tool and one that should be used to help guide, direct and nourish people to become better performers. In today's environment of changing technology and evolving organizations, coaching can have a strategic impact. It provides continuous learning and develops people to meet current and future needs. Coaching is an investment that you make in developing your key resource, people, for the long-term benefit of the organization.
So what is professional coaching and how does it differ from consulting? Download and listen to this MP3 recording of a recent interview of Coach Agno for the answer to that question: http://view.vzaar.com/845767/download
Coach Agno is a frequent keynote speaker on the importance of leadership and facilitates leadership development seminars at corporate and association events.
Credentials:
Coach Agno holds the designation of Certified Executive Coach (CEC) by the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (the highest designation available to business coaches) and is a Certified Business Coach (CBC) by the International Consortia of Business Coaches.
He is a past member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), a founding member of CoachVille and founder of the Coach to Coach Network, a virtual community of over 1,300 personal and business coaches from around the world. He works with coaches, executives, professionals and management teams to help them flourish in their professional and personal lives.
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Free Articles & Book Excerpts
Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge
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When Doing It All Won't Do--Workbook Edition
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Women and Time
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Can't Get Enough Leadership
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Boomer Retirement Life Tips
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Decoding the Executive Woman's Dress Code
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Books for Boomers: Reviews and Coaching Tips
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To Answer or Not Answer "The Question?"
Personal and business success starts with the question, "What should I do with my life?" People don't succeed by moving from one 'hot' industry to another, being a copy cat of some hero leader or following a certain career-guiding formula. They succeed by unleashing a productive, creative and ...
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Born Leaders
Your natural talents are gifts at birth. You had nothing to do with them. However, you have a great deal to do with nbecoming aware of them and developing them into strengths. It is up to you to discover your natural signature talents and transform them through focus, practice and learning into ...
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Baby Boomers' Phased Retirement
A greater percentage of those over 55 are working today than a year ago. In part, because older workers are prized for their corporate experience, personal relationships and stability. "Any time you have an early retirement program and have to make it widely available, you chance losing key ...
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Why Your New Year Resolution Bombed
Every year, we gain a clearer understanding that without positive change, decline is inevitable. The challenge is to recognize that what we are now doing can be reinvented by paying attention to our intentions. Yet, it is very hard to bring about significant change without changes in ...
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Ten Coaching Tips for Career Women
Here are ten coaching tips to reduce stress and increase the energy required to face your daily challenges. 1. Women’s Stressors are Unique Women’s hormones and biology make them different from men.r
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Leading Synergistically
If you're involved with any group of people who are trying to achieve common goals, you soon become acutely aware that those goals will be achieved only through the work of the people in the group. Yes, all work is done through relationships and wisely managing these relationship is critical to your team, group, division, company and community. Put simply, organizations don't succeed in and of themselves. They succeed only through individuals working in groups or teams.
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Brand Ideals Drive Performance
Think about what and how you buy in your business and personal life.
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Personal Executive Coaching
Personal leadership coaching to achieve success in life and at work.
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Who are you and what are you meant to do?
Knowing who you are and what you are meant to do gives you the energy to transform your life.
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Coached to Success
The most critical knowledge is self knowledge.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from John Agno
My Personal Coach
The concept of a coach is slippery. Coaches are not teachers, but they teach. They’re not your boss—in professional tennis, golf, and skating, the athlete hires and fires the coach—but they can be bossy. They don’t even have to be good at the sport. The famous Olympic gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi couldn’t do a split if his life depended on it. Mainly, they observe, they judge, and they guide.
Coaches are like editors, another slippery invention. Consider Maxwell Perkins, the great Scribner’s editor, who found, nurtured, and published such writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. “Perkins has the intangible faculty of giving you confidence in yourself and the book you are writing,” one of his writers said in a New Yorker Profile from 1944. “He never tells you what to do,” another writer said. “Instead, he suggests to you, in an extraordinarily inarticulate fashion, what you want to do yourself.”
The coaching model is different from the traditional conception of pedagogy, where there’s a presumption that, after a certain point, the student no longer needs instruction. You graduate. You’re done. You can go the rest of the way yourself.
Coaching considers the teaching model naïve about our human capacity for self-perfection. It holds that, no matter how well prepared people are in their formative years, few can achieve and maintain their best performance on their own.
So what is professional coaching and how does it differ from consulting?
Download and listen to this MP3 recording of a recent interview of Coach Agno for the answer to that question.
Contacting John Agno
John G. Agno, certified executive & business coach
Signature, Inc.
PO Box 2086
A Arbor, MI 48106
Phone: (734) 426-2000 (US Eastern Time Zone)
Email: johnagno@signatureseries.com
Website: http://CoachedtoSuccess.com
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