Executive coaching and leadership development is a strange place to inhabit, an area of working with leaders and senior managers to improve their performance. Usually this is funded by a company who understand that investment in the person is investment in the business, in it’s most simplistic terms, ‘it is a little bit like servicing [...]
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” – Tolstoy Nice suit, crisp shirt, classic shoes and of course a good watch (my personal fetish), now what’s wrong with any of that, it’s not that you can walk around the place in dirty jeans and an scrappy old t-shirt?! There was [...]
It’s been a busy few months for the Executive Coaching Guru, running leadership development programmes and working with senior leaders in supporting and challenging leadership behaviours.
I appears to be a complicated answer generally wrapped up in the validation, ego, pay and a feeling that it’s the pinnacle of achievement. Many people feel that being a company director marks them out as being a senior person, often placing them ahead of others who may have MBA’s and maybe even bigger salaries.