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 […]
Leadership Development: Engagement: If you have a project or a team or a business and a vision than you need the engagement of all who will partake. Obvious huh? But more importantly, you need sustained engagement. how do you ensure that everyone on every level buys into and remains aligned with this plot? There are many […]
Leadership Development: Sabotage: If I asked: “How are you undermining your team, business or project?” I’m guessing that your immediate response to that question is “I’m not!”. Swiftly followed by a ‘Why would I do that?” . You’d be surprised at the potholes we can create for ourselves. And, as we self-sabotage, we roll that […]
Forbes is pretty scathing about the leadership development provision currently on offer, stating that our definition of leadership is too narrow. I concur because our definition of leadership IS way too narrow and thus we miss such potential. Do you believe everyone has leadership potential? I do. Forbes says that a leader is anyone who […]
Your Leadership style will be entirely your own. Culturally we probably carry unconscious bias about how a “leadership” will look, behave and ‘be’. As my husband says; “assumption is the mother of all fxxk ups!” and, I am inclined to agree. “Don’t you ever believe that you cannot lead because no organisation has given you […]
Looking at the quote below you might anticipate that only those at ‘The Top’ can be leaders or indeed need leadership coaching. “Leadership Coaching, however, is a collaborative, individualised relationship between a leader and the coach — the leader could well be an executive, manager, supervisor, team leader or business owner for example — anyone in charge or responsible for a group of people. Coaching is […]
Leadership Development Coach: A Curious Coach Two leadership facets have importance over everything else: Firstly your development will benefit from a really curious coach. A coach who will ask the awkward questions. A good coach does not need to originate from your industry sector or business, but, a good coach really does need to want to understand […]