In the ever-evolving landscape of business, the pursuit of growth is a constant. Organisations invest significant time, effort, and resources into crafting growth strategies, expanding market reach, and enhancing product offerings. However, one crucial aspect often overlooked in the pursuit of organisational success is the role of personal and professional development as the precursor...
Virtually perfect: Leading teams with a new miracle question.
Introduction Leading virtual teams is a skill that demands a unique set of strategies compared to traditional in-person teams. As a virtual team leader, you hold the key to unlocking your team’s potential and driving success. In this blog, we will explore one fundamental question that can transform your virtual leadership approach and create...
How to master the ‘follow-through’ of organisational transformation.
Change programmes are notoriously difficult to design but even more challenging to embed across an organisation in the longer term. Aside from times of merger and acquisition, organisations are under regulatory pressure to change; they also face pressure to change from their customers, shareholders and even from their workforce. For too long organisations have...
How to plan effectively for the future of work.
Many of us love engaging with new ideas, new applications of old ideas, challenges to established thinking and almost anything that is new, even if only to dismiss it swiftly and move on, to the next thing that comes along to grab our attention. Perhaps it is no surprise then that articles on LinkedIn,...
New change research finding for COOs
As Chief Operating Officers (COOs), driving organisational transformation is a critical responsibility. However, the path to successful transformation is often riddled with challenges and uncertainties. In this blog post, we will explore key insights gained from interviews with industry experts, shedding light on the complexities of transformation and providing guidance for COOs looking to...
Unlocked: The 7 ways that show why 20 minutes is the new sweet spot for leadership coaching.
This article has the potential of making me very unpopular in the over-crowded marketplace of leadership coaching. And I’m fine with that. I’m not going out of my way to alienate people. Quite the opposite. I want to inform and help. It just happens that the people I want to inform and help are...
Debunking, for good, the three most common coaching myths.
60 second summary Coaching continues to grow, both as a market offering and industry as well as a place of confusion. Whilst coaching, executed well, can help bring about amazing results for individuals, teams and organisations (which you can measure … See BONUS at the end of this feature) the speed of growth has...
You choose. How to de-risk your supplier decisions.
1 minute summary You run the risk of not spending enough time and thought into your supplier decisions because you are busy and anyway Mary, who you met at an HR Roundtable event recommended someone, so you’re all good. Transformation – be that individual leader/manager, team or the whole organisation – need the right...
It’s official: This is the biggest challenge to effective organisational change.
Ok, so it may not be a result that would be sufficiently rigorous to publish in an academic article. And the sample size was pretty small. And skewed. And LinkedIn’s Poll response time is pretty short. But those things aside, the respondents were all from a relevant demographic – namely people like you: leaders...
Less is more. And more is also more: How to create exceptional coaching.
As a coach I have long held a healthy scepticism about the effectiveness of coaching. I did not want to join a sector that was selling snake oil. It was in part the reason I completed both a master’s degree and a Doctorate in coaching. I wanted to be confident that the craft I...