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 […]
Leadership Coaching: Generosity. Are you letting your children out into the world? By which I mean, are you letting your ego interfere and arrest your generosity? I think it’s a tender vulnerability to risk putting your heart out into the world, and yet, that’s exactly what you need to do if you want to lead change. […]
Leadership coaching: Transformational. So what I’m about to suggest is a scary thing to me. It is perhaps frightening to those of you who have felt ownership of their business, organisation or project. Transformational Leadership is an empowering thing, however, it does mean you have to let go of the reigns. What we have been […]
Career Coaching: Permission. One of the roles of a career coach is that of granting permission. Permission to what? Permission to do this career-thing in the way YOU want. Often we arrive in our adulthood and we are absolutely full of ‘shoulds & oughts’. You may have been absolutely playing by ‘the rules’ for years. […]
Leadership Coaching: Strengths. I often have to remind people whist diong this work, that the term ‘Leadership’ does not mean ‘doing it all yourself’. Leaders often earn their roles by being competent in a multitude of their own facets and in other’s environments. What you also probably being is passion for your chosen role, purpose […]
“Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to, and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives. “ anon So what is empathy? What it is not is sympathy. Empathy is not feeling sorry for people. Empathy is the desire and ability to understand how THEY are […]
One of the best questions a client has asked me in recent years is this:‘What do I need to do in order to make the most of this coaching?’I was quite put in the spot: this was qualitative, not quantitative. The answer I gave was “Bring your Openness, your Honesty, and your Willingness”. I watch […]
Leadership Coaching: Humility. Every worked with someone who can’t admit they got it wrong? How infuriating is that? Everyone makes mistakes. In most cases, the sky doesn’t fall in. So much is lost if those mistakes aren’t acknowledged: the lessons contained within and often the loyalty of those who know exactly what happened. The more […]