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...
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,...
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...
If, like most of us, you are “hopelessly average,” to quote Tom Bilyeu, all your good intentions around what you were going to achieve in 2023 have already turned to dust and you are back where you were in 2022. Or perhaps, even further back than that. Except, you are probably a bit more...
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...
I read a lot of books in 2022. Some great works of fiction. Others were airport books. Others still, thought-provoking insights into philosophy, psychology and high performance. But, I have a long-standing trap that I set myself when it comes to reading books that are meant to help me improve an aspect of my...
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...
