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.
Frankly as an Executive Coach, even I don’t know where to start, especially as this sits on top of allegations of ‘bullying’ his staff, to which a senior civil servant trying to help said, “Gordon isn’t a bully he just has very high expectations!” (Like Stalin?)
As an executive coach I often come across the senior manager who is talking about his new car, the holiday in Bermuda or the holiday home to someone who frankly is struggling to pay a mortgage.
Greenspan was able to ‘demonstrate some humanity’, but I’m unaware of that ‘humanity’ existing pre-testification! It often feels that the seeking of forgiveness only comes after things have gone wrong
It is often the primary ‘confusion’ for many leaders who engage an executive coach.