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I’m sitting by the exit!
At senior levels, success is not about the ‘professional skills’ but is often about the soft skills of self awareness, confidence, influencing, resilience and political astuteness. In this case K is...
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Learning some painful lessons
For leaders, the ability to be able to be flexible in their approach to people and problems is a key quality. But for some, their styles are deeply rooted and personal change is really challenging....
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Team Coaching
My response when asked if I do ‘team coaching’ is usually to say ‘No I don’t do team coaching’. (I’m very cautious about being asked to deliver a prescribed solution – but that is another discussion.)...
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‘Team Coaching’ as an inappropriate solution
Here are two examples where ‘Team Coaching’ was incorrectly perceived as the solution to a problem within a group. The newly appointed Operations Director was aiming to drive change but was...
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I’ve been behaving like a teenager!
Coaching outcomes can be life changing yet on many occasions, support is only made available once the coachee is in significant difficulty. Unlocking the potential in these situations can require...
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‘You have been an absolute monster!’
We all have sets of learned behaviours that may be rewarded or have no apparent consequences for us and which we continue to repeat. The coaching conversation, establishing trust, real ‘listening’,...
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It’s OK to be me!
There is often a moment when the rules and methods of behaviour that have enabled progress to a certain level of achievement become inappropriate. Managers must become leaders, operations become...
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Forgotten Skills
A gentle challenge identifies hidden and forgotten skills ‘If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal’¹…and so it is when it kills off a potential leader’s urgent, insistent desire...
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Stress – change the rules
There is often a moment in a career when the individual begins to realise that something isn’t working, that what they have been doing so far suddenly it isn’t working any more. They believe the...
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Distracted by details
Personal effectiveness, good decision making, organisation and planning are basic skills for anyone in organisational life. As people struggle with the growing volumes of information, communication and...
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