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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Are you under-estimating the power of teams to shape the success of your organisation? If you have fallen into this trap, take some solace in the fact that you are not alone. Businesses succeed and fail by the performance and the motivation of teams and the talented individuals who lead and make up those...
The thing about change is that it is often complex, usually unique, frequently unexpected and not easily reducible. Yet, with those challenges in mind, we would like to share five pieces of advice for when you are meeting change – personally and for your work. These five tips are based on our own experiences...
If the last two years have taught businesses anything, it is that everyone in an organisation experiences change: sometimes radical; usually complex; typically ever-present. To meet head on, the kind of change we have seen recently and succeed in adapting to it, people across the organisation were required to transform, so the business could...
In this post we’re going to be looking at the latest research on a really important human capital topic, that of performance management in a hybrid workplace. We’re not being prescriptive about what we mean when we refer to the hybrid workplace.For the purposes of this post, it will mean wherever there is a...
