We regularly produce articles on subjects that we feel will interest our clients and potential customers. It is our way of both offering you something genuinely useful, a core value of our business, and a way of you getting to understand more about our style and how we think.
Below is a selection of articles we have produced in the past. More will be added from time to time.
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Delegation: A critical facet of leadership
10/11/10
In almost all coaching assignments I undertake, at whatever level in an organisation, at some point in our discussion the issue of delegation raises its troublesome head. Most of my clients are preoccupied by it. Few feel they have mastered it. For many of these business leaders, their failure to master the skills of delegation represents a serious impediment to their upward career mobility.
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Taking executive coaching to the next level
10/11/10
Simplifying our offering, we now focus specifically on high impact, rapid results coaching, with the option of our unique “Saville Row” tailored 360 degree feedback. That means you get more results, faster and the choice could not be simpler.
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Playing the change game
23/08/10
The challenges we are facing are unclear, the desired outcomes to say the least ambiguous, and the tools that served us in the past are no longer appropriate or up to the job.
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The Urgency of Change
06/07/10
I think we all recognise that it is becoming increasingly important, in the current business climate, for leaders to acquire the knowledge, capabilities and experience required to guide organisations through uncertain, ambiguous and changing times.
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Feedback: The fuel that drives improved performance
24/05/10
At the heart of good coaching is the provision of effective feedback. It not only helps people correct mistakes before they become habits, but it also reinforces positive behaviours and helps people achieve their goals. It is not an exaggeration to describe feedback as “the fuel that drives improved performance”.
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Mastering the not so basic basics of leadership
30/04/10
It is the quality of working relationships that delivers results in business. It is the basis for everything. Many leaders focus too much on tasks and do not make enough links at a personal level. However, relationships are the essential precondition for consistently reaching targets in a sustainable way.
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Leadership as support and challenge
15/03/10
Admit it … you’re good
Let’s start by discussing your favourite subject – you. Because I directed this article towards you, and even more because you are reading it with diligence and interest, it is clear to me that you are a person whose business knowledge, skills, experience and behaviours mark you out as someone of way above average capability and competence. You are a success. You are very good at what you do. You have progressed well in your career on the basis of personal merit.
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Leadership and Learning
18/02/10
Never underestimate the power of coaching in the moment. Thirty seconds spent talking together during a critical incident, where you remember to ask questions rather than issue instructions, is coaching at its most impactful. Or consider a situation where you get someone to change their mindset from describing an intractable problem, to flipping it over and turning it into a “how to” statement which contains a goal that can now be worked towards. That is the power of coaching in real time.
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