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 [...]
He goes went onto explain that he’d been trained to take control of distaster situations, though he had never done it before, “people knew I had had the training and they all looked to me, one person said, “Robert what do you want us to do?”. He goes to say how he said he needed a moment, sat down and on a piece of paper jotted down the things he needed to do.
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.
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?
On the 25th March 2009, Lords Cricket Ground, London I am in the audience of a conference with the topic of performance and leadership; the key note speaker we are all waiting for is Charlie Duke who in 1972 walked on the moon (which pretty well trumps anything else I could pretty well think of).