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 [...]
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.
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.
Business I have always felt has an identity all of its own, it’s difficult to understand it untill you get to work with many different people in many different organisations; in the guise of the Executive Coaching Guru, I have been privileged to work with hundreds of senior managers
the right level of support and challenge keeps the Frisbee afloat, the wrong level sees it falling to the ground.
But he pulled it off with just the right balance of humility, wit, intelligence, commercial awareness and humanity (his board on the other hand, probably due to editing, looked less alert to the whole concept of the programme).
The brightest and the best leaders often fail, strangely (for them) not because of a technical inability but because of behavours that detract from their capacity to deliver.