Leadership Coaching Potential: Have you ever noticed that there is a fine line between anxiety and excitement? So, how do we tip the balance? Speaking with a client I’d work with a couple of years ago she voiced the in‘starting her business in Bali, “all that heavy anxiety had been transformed into the excitement, every […]
Leadership Coaching Trust: How do you know if you’re a leader? Well, you don’t until you start something and find that people are following…Well, why would you do that? Very simply, you’d do that because it matters. To try to lead change, with no guarantees of success, with no hint of any followers….to take that […]
The first rule of Leadership Coaching ‘Observe’; Stand back, observe, observe, observe Then engage… Listen, Listen, and Listen some more…..Listen to your Colleagues. Listen to your teams. Listen to your cleaner and then listen to your clients. Be. Gently. Curious. And listen. These are the people who both know the difficulties AND have their solutions… […]
Career Coaching Work: There are two types of personality types that show up really regularly in this career coaching work. The Disruptor And The Empath. Looking at them more closely, that are one and the same. Here’s why… It is The Empath who can walk into a room and sense what’s amiss. It’s The Empath that […]
Leadership Coaching Results: If you want to lead change you have to start somewhere…I meet thousands of people a year who have great ideas for making the world a better place. Many of those people also have a multitude of good ideas… but, none of them have any value whatsoever unless they are put into […]
Leadership Coaching Bristol: According to a New survey conducted by CV-Library, almost half the workforce in Bristol hates their jobs!!! Really??? I think this has some implications for leadership here in this town…We paint ourselves smugly as the ‘best place to live in Britain’, and, yet half of us dislike our work…? the place we […]
Leadership Coaching Guardian: True Guardianship involves Removing The Leadership Mask. There is a leadership style that is masked. It is a Leadership style that is top-down, infallible, closed, non-curious and definitely unapproachable. You may be familiar with this kind of leadership style. If you are anything like me then this Leadership style won’t bring out the best […]
Your Leadership Coaching Pledge: Whatever you Leadership role, never forget to nourish yourself first and foremost I get business owners showing up and they are tired. I get policymakers wandering in who are worn right down. I get change Makers coming through the door and they are utterly exhausted. Nobody inspired anyone else to do […]
Leadership Coaching Costs: There is a particular trait that I see in ‘my’ leaders. They are the intuitive types, the whole systems thinkers, they can spot in an instant when something is not working. They are often considered disruptive for trying to solve these problems because other humans are terrified of change. These truth-speaker and […]
Leadership Coaching and Development: Unashamedly political, I spend a lot of time in my life and my work defining what constitutes ‘good leadership’. I don’t believe that our government is exhibiting any of the traits I seek. Let’s take a look at the current political circumstances as if you were running a business shall we […]