Business Coaching Training: Have you ever found that you have been utterly elegant with a client or customer, all focussed on the relationship-build, amenable and genuinely curious, only to turn right around and snap at your business partner???? Yep? This is the place where ‘familiarity (needs to NOT) breed contempt!!!! Here it the place to begin […]
Business coaching for sustainability: I have had some realisations regards my drivers for practising as a coach. I recognise now I was allowed to ask how anything worked other than humans when I was small. Now I get handsomely paid to engage in really open and contracted professional curiosity. “I can say what I see, […]
Business coaching Identity: I tried to define my business identity in a void. Does this sound familiar? I wanted to know exactly who I would be coaching and how I would be doing it, before even trying it. This prevented me from practising. This perfectionism prevented me from being of any use to anyone else […]
Business Coaching: Be clear who exactly is in charge of what. My husband and I are both “leaders”. That means that we both think that we are right. We both think that we are right all of the time. This has caused acute conflict for a decade. Whilst I hesitate to admit this … My […]
Leadership Coach Bristol: If you find yourself looking at another person or organisation and thinking, “…but why don’t they just do that?” Then you have just identified a skill that you do have, that ‘they’ do not. If you find yourself thinking this more often than not, then you might just have identified your leadership […]
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 […]
Leadership programmes and where they go wrong: McKinsey Is pretty scathing of these, sometimes extortionately expensive, investments in accelerating employees with potential. There are four main reasons that these programmes seem to fail: From “overlooking context…” Rules, guidelines, and protocol are only effective when they are fit for purpose. They can only be fit for purpose […]
I have a mentor who consistently reminds me that “leaders exist at all levels of an organisation.” And thus it is not just those at the top, with the official mandate and the high wage, who have power and leadership potential. I remember being shy at school even then I could see there were individuals […]
What’s the difference between an Executive coaching and leadership coaching? The short answer is ‘nothing’. The long answer is more subtle. The difference lies in the language. Never, ever underestimate the power of words! Before we go any further, please do one thing. Close your eyes and summon the image which arrives in your mind when […]
There are as many different leadership qualities as there are leaders. There are exhaustive, and indeed an exhausting number, of lists out there on the net of all you need. Here’s Forbes take on the subject. If you did have all of them you would be one immense individual. Being realistic there is one quality we all […]