Leadership Coaching Guardian

Removing The Leadership Mask

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 […]

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Leadership Coaching Costs

The Real Costs of Leadership

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 […]

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Leadership Coaching and Development 

Unashamedly Political

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 […]

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Leadership Coaching Goals

Leadership Coaching Goals

One of the main Leadership Coaching Goals is this:  To Make Yourself Redundant. You have to enable your team to find their own way…..   “I think one of the key traits of a true leader is the ability to get things done through other people. If no one is following you, even if you […]

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Leadership Coaching Skills

THE fundamental Leadership Skill

Leadership Coaching Skills: Take care of yourself. The best leaders lead well because they know what it’s like to go ‘through it’.  Those who have known loss, heartbreak, dark days or years, those who have turned to face the despair in their own lives in order to assimilate it and heal, these are the people […]

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Leadership Coaching Framework

A New Leadership Framework

Leadership Coaching Framework: I am noticing that is a really fine line between fear and excitement. I flew in from the school run this morning saying “I’ve gotta get on, I’ve got five clients today”. A 90-minute supervision session. Two New-Client assessment sessions. One Business Coaching session and a 90 minuted Career Coaching session. Now […]

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Leadership Coaching Styles

5 Ways to Lead With Courage

Leadership Coaching Styles: Be brave! If you can see something important that others cannot or will not acknowledge, then perhaps it is not only your ego that needs to act upon this. Perhaps it is an ethical matter. Perhaps what you are seeing is a duty of care and your unique, disruptive perspective is actually […]

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Leadership coaching meaning

The Meaning of “Leadership”

Leadership coaching meaning: This question for me focuses less on the types of coaching (which are just a bunch of interventions used at the right time), and more on the type of leadership. Once you know the type of leadership the process of coaching forms itself right around that. Leaders come in a multitude of […]

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leadership quote

Leadership Quote

Leadership Quote: With the passing of Kofi Anan, I was reminded of a wonderful leadership quote in a speech he made in April of 2018 ” leadership is not about the individual” And that says SO much to me. Leadership is NOT about status and leadership is NOT about ego. Leadership is NOT about power. […]

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Leadership Coaching, Bristol

The 4 Challenges of Leading Change

Leadership Coaching: Have you gained significant seniority in your sector? Are you seen as an authority in your field? And, are you experiencing real frustrations of leading within organisations and systems that really need to transition? An organisation that has to change in order to find better.. ethics…or be more transparent…or  more empowering … and therefore […]

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