Leadership coaching: Fear. The question is this: Is it ok to be open, when in a leadership role, about my fears, my presumptions, my misunderstandings, and even my prejudices? Or is it much safer to be all gung-ho, positive and motivational? I think I know the answer to that for me. I believe that it […]
Leadership Coaching: Responsibility: I had gifted a little lesson to me today in where ‘responsibility in leadership really lies… ‘ Oh, it lies with me. However much I empower and trust my tribe, mistakes do get made and accountability for errors lies at my feet. I needed to submit a funding bid today and I […]
Leadership coaching: Engagement. Are you having trouble engaging your team? Perhaps they are not entirely clear about what it is that you are trying to do? In Lammer’s Organisational Model, you can see that there are strata. You can see that The Vision is furthest away from The Personal. The place where The Vision is […]
Career Coaching: Truth be told, if you are really honest with yourself, you do actually know what you want to do. Deep down you have no doubt about your purpose. Why do I say that? Because I see it over and over in the work that I do daily. What makes the difference between those […]
Leadership Coaching: Self-Care. Whilst it might sound simplistic, in your leadership role don’t neglect self-care. Yep! Leadership Does involve being well aware of others hopes, needs, and agenda. Focus too much outside of yourself however and you risk losing your own core. “You can’t give away what you haven’t got” If like me, you were raised […]
Career Coaching Triggers: Are you getting triggered at work? Do you want to take your power back? The only way I know to do this is to ‘own it’. And how can you do that? Try asking yourself this question: “What belief am I holding about myself that means that I am getting triggered by […]
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 […]
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 […]
Career Coach Slam: How did we get to this place? The place where we slam ourselves down for not being able to do everything we ‘should’on our own? Where is the shame in asking for help? I know that I spent the first 25 years pretending that I knew what I was doing and refusing to […]