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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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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Leading amidst ambiguity and uncertainty
05/02/10
Do you find yourself surrounded by managers when your business is crying out for leaders?
Does the responsibility of moving your business forward rest on too few shoulders?
Are your key people technically solid, but lacking in drive, urgency, influence and presence?
We know that strong leadership is critical in that it requires people to take the action that delivers excellent business results. Unfortunately, many senior and high potential people spend too much of their time just managing, and they often struggle to understand what it means to be a leader and to fully grasp what is required of them.
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Coaching as a Critical Leadership Capability
22/01/10
Are your key people leaders or a managers?
I want you to challenge your key people to critically explore their own approach to leadership. Being totally honest with themselves for a minute, how much of their working week do they spend working as a leader and how much simply managing? Are you happy with this?
If you were to put them on the spot right now and ask what it means to be a leader, what would they answer? Do we really need leaders? Does it really matter that these critical individuals spend too much of their time just managing and that they sometimes struggle to know what exactly it means to be a leader and what is required of them?
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