Categories for Leadership Development

22 September 2023

However technically skilled you are as a manager, if there’s no safe environment and space for the coaching conversation (or indeed any conversation) to take place, you’ll not get very far.

Here’s how to have a coaching conversation with a team member you find challenging.

Note: Firstly, be sure that it IS a coaching conversation that (rather than the first stages of a disciplinary/ performance management... View Article

15 September 2023

People-pleasing is one of the obvious ways to get in our own way because so often it leads to resentment, frustration and overwhelm.

Working with People Pleasers? Here’s how you can help them.

This article is written for you if you use a coaching approach in your leadership role and was first published in... View Article

7 September 2023

Want a creative way to turn wishful thinking into reality?

I don’t know about you, but I love this time of year – here in southern France the extreme July... View Article

1 September 2023

You put your left foot in…. (And then take it out again quickly)

I call this the leadership ‘hokey cokey’. ‘I’m definitely going to go for a new job before Christmas’ (left foot in). But... View Article

25 August 2023

Coaching people who have ‘too much to do and not enough time’

This article is written for you if you use a coaching approach in your leadership role. I’m sure that from... View Article

18 August 2023

I love learning new stuff but most of the time I don’t want learning for learning’s sake

Is this acceptable? What do you think?

‘I went on a great leadership course and learned LOADS.’Me: ‘That’s great – what’s changed for the better as a... View Article

11 August 2023

All this is fixable (I promise)

Does this describe your leadership life right now? You’re in constant meetings (many of which are a waste of time)... View Article

4 August 2023

Coaching people who have ‘too much to do and not enough time’.

This article is written for you if you use a coaching approach in your leadership role. I’m sure that from... View Article

28 July 2023

Changing something always starts with deciding to change.

You get to choose how successful you are. Not your boss. Not your organisation. YOU.

So many talented people hold back from getting what they truly want in leadership life, thinking that being too busy... View Article

21 July 2023

How do I have a ‘coaching’ conversation with a team member I find challenging?

Note: Firstly, be sure that it IS a coaching conversation that is needed (rather than the first stages of a disciplinary/... View Article

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