Tag Archive for 'coaching in tough times'

Stuck Not Broken: Tops teams understand this concept.

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 [...]

Leadership Talent Strategy – Keep an eye on the edges

“there are a lot of interesting things that happen on the edges of a business” – Executive Coaching Guru Many leaders have their plate full with the BAU stuff, you know the simple things like running the company, so it is hardly a surprise that this monopolises a leaders thoughts and thus a teams focus. In my [...]

Executive Success – All in the look?

“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 [...]

Credit Crunch and Leadership Imagination.

What’s also interesting is the psychology of leadership in these times, they often to appear to cut back there entrepreneurial spirit and imagination, in a direct parallel to the cutting back of budget. It shows up those who ‘need a budget to create movement’ and those who can ‘create movement on a budget’