Feb 8, 2018 | Business Coaching, Leadership Development, Leadership Skills Training
One of the exercises I use most often in my leadership workshops is to split the group into three and ask them to consider what skills and qualities are required of them as leaders, and how this is different to five years ago. They have to agree what they think are...
Sep 29, 2017 | Business Coaching, Career coaching
Business coaching has never been in more demand. And 18 years of working with employees and managers tells me it’s never been more scarce. Why’s it in such demand? Because coaching is the number one support employees are looking for in their manager. ...
Sep 29, 2014 | Business Coaching, Career coaching, Coaching Skills
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, guys. When you coach someone, it’s not all about YOU! What makes me say that? I’m fresh back from running another Leadership course, where on the third day I invite folks to coach each other. I ask them to use the...
Aug 5, 2013 | Business Coaching, Career coaching, Coaching Skills
Pablo Picasso has inspired this week’s post. Thanks Pablo, it is pouring with rain outside, and to be honest I was feeling a bit flat and lost for words until I saw your great quote: “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how...
Nov 9, 2012 | Business Coaching, Career coaching, Coaching Skills
I have good news and bad news. First the good news. I’ve just read about an internal study carried out by Google in which they made 10,00 observations of their best Managers. Given their skills in analytics and designing algorithms, their conclusions might be...
Mar 23, 2011 | Business Coaching, Career coaching, Coaching Skills
At the beginning of the year I was lucky enough to be part of a gaggle (or is the collective noun an “incompetence”) of business trainers and coaches who were trained in Level B Occupational Personality Assessment. Bully for you, I hear you say. The...
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