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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” – Peter Drucker
When looking to developing a Coaching Culture, ask - ‘What is already in place that we can build on?’
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Aug 28, 20244 min read
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Balancing the ‘Black Hole’ Effect
How to manage the scale and significance of leading human intensive and complex organizations - and still thrive?
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Aug 28, 20243 min read
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4Cs Values Quotient..
How framing values in a granular way can support decision-making and dilemmas
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Aug 7, 20241 min read
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Good Luck - Bad Luck?
Good luck? Bad luck? The power of reframing any situation ......
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Aug 6, 20243 min read
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Best Laid Plans …
Rolling with the punches It’s August 2020. I have just left a challenging and highly rewarding role as a Principal (‘Director’) at a...
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Aug 6, 20242 min read
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"All Change"
How to cope with change and transition
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Aug 6, 20242 min read
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The Power of trust (in leading teams)
What is trust? Why is it important in teams? How can you cultivate it as a leader?
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May 15, 20244 min read
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Six Things I’ve learnt ….. by coaching teams
What are the features of highly effective teams... some suggestions and questions to reflect on and apply in your context
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Apr 19, 20242 min read
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The Continuum of Acceptable Compromise
Decisions, decisions….choices, options, alternatives, opportunity costs, risks…. Leadership is a complex endeavour. Some decisions seen...
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Apr 19, 20242 min read
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With Gratitude, optimism is sustainable
It seems that practicing gratitude has several positive benefits. How can we build habits that enable us to realise these benefits?
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Sep 4, 20231 min read
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Twelve Things I've Learnt ......
What can be learned from coaching - 12 'take aways' shared
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Aug 29, 20235 min read
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Coaching: Knowing-Self, being at Choice
How coaching gives you agency, and ownership - Consciousness, Choice and Control Coaching characteristics Carl Rogers was something of an...
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Jun 30, 20225 min read
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Negativity bias
How we get in our own way (and what we can do about it) Saboteurs and Superheroes: It seems that we all have a tendency towards the...
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Jun 28, 20222 min read
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Casual Chat Vs Coaching Conversation
How coaching conversations are 'better' than a casual chat
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Nov 12, 20213 min read
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The Pleaser - The secret of always putting others first
How putting others first is not always serving them or you. How might a hyper-focus on being ‘considerate and unselfish’ result in you...
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Oct 12, 20212 min read
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Victim Saboteur
This post explores how a tendency towards negative perspective can inhibit the effectiveness of leaders and those they work with
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Oct 12, 20211 min read
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Restless Saboteur
Don’t let proxy multi-taking get in the way of your effectiveness Why the perceived benefits of multitasking are holding you back. How...
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Oct 9, 20212 min read
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Perfectionist Saboteur
Don’t Let Perfection get in the way of the ‘Good Enough’ - How the 80:20 can help Why perceived perfection is holding you back. How...
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Oct 1, 20211 min read
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The Hyper-Vigilant Saboteur – The Worry Wart
Why focusing on risk is holding you back It is a phrase we hear from time to time, referring to someone as a ….’worry wart’. We often do...
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Sep 21, 20211 min read
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The Hyper-Rational Saboteur
How leading and logic are not always healthy bedfellows. How might a hyper-focus on thinking and analysing see you getting in your own...
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Sep 9, 20212 min read
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