When we examine work environment types we can be overly simplistic in our requirements. Whilst some individuals obviously need to be working outdoors. Other individuals like my husband, actually need to be office-based because he is so sweet (read that with the appropriate level of sarcasm), I’m sure he might dissolve in the rain. This piece […]
Work Environment Definition: I have always considered the work environment definition to mean that place outside of myself, the place with the desk, the place that I do my work ‘in’. I forget that it is both wider and also smaller in my internal landscape. It’s wider in that we are each a tiny part […]
I am noticing increasingly in the career coaching work I do is just how very depleted each client is when they show up here. It seems it is easy to forget to attend to our internal work environment. We began two new coaching journeys yesterday: Take two very different clients of different genders and industry […]
Leadership Coach Bristol: If you find yourself looking at another person or organisation and thinking, “…but why don’t they just do that?” Then you have just identified a skill that you do have, that ‘they’ do not. If you find yourself thinking this more often than not, then you might just have identified your leadership […]
Forbes is pretty scathing about the leadership development provision currently on offer, stating that our definition of leadership is too narrow. I concur because our definition of leadership IS way too narrow and thus we miss such potential. Do you believe everyone has leadership potential? I do. Forbes says that a leader is anyone who […]
Leadership programmes and where they go wrong: McKinsey Is pretty scathing of these, sometimes extortionately expensive, investments in accelerating employees with potential. There are four main reasons that these programmes seem to fail: From “overlooking context…” Rules, guidelines, and protocol are only effective when they are fit for purpose. They can only be fit for purpose […]
I have a mentor who consistently reminds me that “leaders exist at all levels of an organisation.” And thus it is not just those at the top, with the official mandate and the high wage, who have power and leadership potential. I remember being shy at school even then I could see there were individuals […]
What’s the difference between an Executive coaching and leadership coaching? The short answer is ‘nothing’. The long answer is more subtle. The difference lies in the language. Never, ever underestimate the power of words! Before we go any further, please do one thing. Close your eyes and summon the image which arrives in your mind when […]
There are as many different leadership qualities as there are leaders. There are exhaustive, and indeed an exhausting number, of lists out there on the net of all you need. Here’s Forbes take on the subject. If you did have all of them you would be one immense individual. Being realistic there is one quality we all […]
Your Leadership style will be entirely your own. Culturally we probably carry unconscious bias about how a “leadership” will look, behave and ‘be’. As my husband says; “assumption is the mother of all fxxk ups!” and, I am inclined to agree. “Don’t you ever believe that you cannot lead because no organisation has given you […]