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 […]
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 […]