Apr 7, 2016 | Coaching Skills, Communication, Life Skills
Last week I had one of those moments which make my job as a business coach and leadership skills trainer so completely satisfying. There are plenty of them anyway, but this one was like a beam of light shining through a cloudy sky. It really knocked me out. I was...
Dec 11, 2015 | Coaching Skills, Management Skills
If you were to ask a sample of managers how important coaching is to success in their role, what do you think their answer would be? I’ve worked with thousands of them over the years on Leadership and Management skills programmes, so I can state with some...
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...
Jan 21, 2013 | Coaching Skills, Personality types
You may have noticed that my Blogs have become somewhat infrequent recently. The truth is I have had to drag myself to the keyboard to write this one. Normally I bang one out in about 20 minutes, and have to restrict the frequency lest I overload you. Now I am...
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...
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