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The Power of Positive Questioning

We often find ourselves caught in a whirlwind of activity, checking boxes on our to-do lists without ever truly reflecting on the impact of our actions. It’s easy to get lost in the hustle, only to realize at the end of the day that something is missing. Perhaps it's a sense of fulfillment, a spark of inspiration, or a clear direction. The secret to unlocking a more purposeful and productive life might lie in a simple yet powerful tool: positive questioning. I often find myself at my family's vacation home in Bonita Springs, Florida, surrounded by the beauty of the Gulf, reflecting on the principles that have guided my life and career. One of the most fundamental concepts is the power of asking. It was my father, the late David Peter Campe, who first instilled this idea in me. Decades ago, he pondered a simple yet profound question: How could he secure a piece of paradise in this area for generations to come? This wasn’t a wish or a dream; it was a deliberate inquiry that set t
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Assessing Behavior in Three Dimensions

Industry coaching veteran Rich Campe of ProAdvisorCoach details the three dimensions of understanding needed to leverage change in motivating employees toward peak performance. In the business place, when it comes to improving employee performance, it’s not enough to know “what?” and “how?” It’s more important to know, “why?” And knowing “why?” is as simple as 1,2,3... dimensions that is. We are constantly making choices in our lives—choices based on the things we value.  From your spouse to your house, from your car to your cat, these choices are often different between us, and are usually made based on a spectrum of factors that may or may not be readily apparent to us.  You might say, that as individuals, we are “full of values.” The world, on the other hand, is “full of facts” which become the foundation for our values.  There would be no value if not for this real, tangible, factual world.  At first, this assigning of values may sound very arbitrary and individual,  but quite to t

ProAdvisorCoach Profile: Coach Matt Drinkhahn

Helping Create a Positive Impact on Professionals, their Teammates, their Clients, their Families, and the World Matt Drinkhahn is a successful entrepreneur and veteran in the corporate world where he has specialized in sales, coaching, recruiting, and sales management throughout his career. He acquired his formal education at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC with a double major in Psychology and Business Economics. Matt’s career has been highlighted by his passion for his customers and people. He has grown his reputation on the platforms of integrity for doing the right thing the right way and his highly-energetic and enthusiastic personality . Who do you find most rewarding to coach, in terms of their personality or goals? I'd be forced to put myself into a corner if I said it was one specific vertical. I would say it's more of an archetype of a person that I tend to work with.  The person that does well with me is leader who’s an overachiever and a recovering perfectionist

Feeling Stuck? Maybe It's Time for a "Reset"

Have you ever failed to do an update on your phone or computer, just to realize why the update was recommended? Glitches. Processing speeds. New features. We've all been in a spot with technology where the next best option is a reboot. Turn it off. Turn it back on. Hope for the best. And if the updates and reboots don't work, back to the factory settings we go.  Maybe that's one of the best approaches for when we feel stuck—a factory reset. Back to "just us," without all the extras. Back to our sweet spots, the things that make us us, taking action that's in alignment with our natural giftedness may be the easiest path to getting unstuck.  The key to getting "unstuck" is related to your Dominant Dimension  Each of us are one of the following: a relator, a doer or a thinker. We either lead with relationships, action-taking, or systematic thinking. If we know where we are most dominant, we can more quickly get unstuck by leaning further into that area.

ProAdvisorCoach Profile: Coach Clay Kirkland

Leveraging Strengths to Achieve More in Less Time Clay Kirkland has been consulting and coaching for fifteen years. He is certified both as a Gallup StrengthsFinder Coach and an Emotional Intelligence Coach. In the past decade, he has worked with over three thousand individuals and hundreds of corporations and businesses including, Salesforce, BMW, Sherwin Williams, Valspar, Novarits, Merial, and Elanco Pharmaceuticals, Chick Fila, University of Georgia, and Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta. He resides near Athens, Georgia, with his wife and six children. Who do you find most rewarding to coach, in terms of their personality or goals? I like working with high performers who want to maintain their excellence and push themselves beyond where they are. I’m also especially suited to working with executives in need of a “rescue”— maybe they’ve lost the trust of team, or had some moral missteps, or they’re feeling the strain from board members pressuring them out. I also enjoy working with an

Design Your Dream Life with a Vision Board

  Do you ever feel hesitant to go after big goals or dreams? Or unsure of your goals or how to achieve them? Wish there was a way to turn your wildest dreams into a tangible roadmap for success? What if I told you there's a simple, yet powerful, tool that can help you gain clarity of your dreams and bridge the gap between desire and achievement?  Design Your Dream Life with a Vision Board You've probably heard about Vision Boards, but maybe you've never used one... or even considered using one. Maybe you've heard a friend or co-working raving about theirs, or maybe you've come across somebody's Pinterest board. Maybe you've even scoffed at that friend about their Vision Board, doubting the power of something so basic and simple, writing it off as nothing more than some sort of "dream life collage."  But a Vision Board is more than that. It's so much more.  It's about turning your dreams into a roadmap for success—something to act as a const

Increase Your Impact: Go Beyond the "To-Do List" by Unlocking the Power of Your Sweet Spot

Have you ever gotten to the end of the day, feeling exhausted and, even more, feeling like you didn’t accomplish much outside of checking off your to-do list? Perhaps there was a flurry of activity, with you at the center, and yet, you couldn’t really recall anything you had done that was valuable, exciting, or even just interesting. On the other hand, can you recall a similarly long day, having worked the same number of hours, but coming home energized, excited about the work you're doing and the impact you're making, feeling like you could stay up all night, ready to tackle the projects that will be waiting for you the next day?  What’s the difference between these two situations? It might be something we at ProAdvisorCoach refer to as "the Sweet Spot"—the intersection of Purpose, Passion, and Profit.  Now, before you go off thinking that this is some kind of Willy Wonka style fairytale world where everyone can just magically do what they love all day, every day,