Leadership Coaching: Risk. What stops us taking risks? It’s our brain. Is this always useful? No! Yes, it keeps us safe, but it also arrests our development. I have clients that have brains that enable them to decide to do one thing late at night and by the next morning, they have managed to rationalise themselves right […]
Leadership Coaching: Responsible Workaholic. Does this phrase resonate at all with you? If I told you I was writing this on a Bank Holiday, you’d know it resonates with me too…This personality type comes from Karlah’s Process Model. It’s really useful to know your personality type as it can enable you to make some informed […]
Leadership Coaching: Redundancy. Once you have been in a leadership role, in my (not so), humble opinion, there is no point playing small in your applications or interviews. People will totally feel your power whether you voice it or not. Most of our communication is non-verbal. A good percentage is not even gestural. That means […]
Leadership Coaching: DIY: If you don’t like how others are doing it then maybe it’s time to lead things yourself? I’m not advocating walking up and pushing your CEO aside. I’m not sure how well that would really go down in reality. What I am noticing is that if you consistently see better, more effective […]
Leadership Coaching: Perspective. Take a step back. Honestly, it’s so easy to be right at the coal face, doing the fire-fighting and immersed in the everydayness of a team or project, it’s very easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. Time to step away. Get off-site, get away from any kind of work for […]
Leadership Coaching: Heart-filled work. I was re-reminded of the importance of ‘heart-filled work in leadership and business by a client today. In he strode, a Glaswegian, a five and a half foot tall. A multi-disciplinary thinker, with barrels of energy. Not only did he bring a personality and a half, but also a heart that has […]
Leadership Coaching: Practicality. I remember my Mum looking me in the eye when I was having another career-panic when I was about 30 and saying ‘but you could do ANYTHING and you have so much to give!!!!’. That was a real double- whammy. So, not only did I not know what I should be doing […]
Leadership Coaching: Biomimicry. How can your team or organisation behave as nature does? Perhaps more to the point is ‘why would it want to do so?’ The fundamental benefit of biomimicry is that nature works in sustainable ways. In these times of deep economic, political and planetary instability, the importance of behaving sustainably has increased exponentially. […]
Leadership Coaching: Comfort Zone. As a leader, how easy is it to ask someone to do something you wouldn’t. I don’t mean something you aren’t technically trained to do and thus couldn’t. Here I am referring to asking someone to do something that you would be too afraid of trying to take the risk. I […]
Career Coaching: inner critic.What has your inner critic sabotaged for you recently? I’ve been all too aware of mine in recent weeks.After four decades I have finally located the place where my inner critic is most active and powerful. This is a great piece of information to have for all of us because then you […]