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 [...]
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
Conflict exists! And it is pretty well everywhere. Max Lucado the prodigious author (some 50+ books) said that, “Conflict is inevitable, combat is optional” and that’s a pretty good place to start, especially as a leader.
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.
How do you do this? How do you know that on promotion you didn’t lose your connection to people, that over the years of platitudes and the gentle drip of obeisance you have not separated yourself from the realness of relations that are framed through the position you hold?
Are you a leader? Or just doing leadership? This rears its head a great deal, a senior executives awareness around this area really helps to define the individual in terms of whether they are really a Manager or a Leader.