Coaching
Why I’m turning up the dial on coaching
Coaching is a partnership to discover new thinking. It’s future focused and optimistic. If you are leading a team in steady state and you have all done what you are doing hundreds of times before then crack on, this is not for you. This is for leadership teams that have something big to deliver in challenging and uncertain times. It’s for people who are up for the messy work of thinking and acting differently together and who are prepared to turn up and do the work. This is what the work looks like.
Read MoreThe four legs of my sturdy table
Preparing for a talk to fellow coaches on how we price for work I discovered something about my business. Four things seem to underpin my success and how I enable my customers’ success.
They are the four legs of my sturdy table …..
The natural way to change – become more of who you are
How best to change or bring about change?
Change happens naturally when we become more of who we are, rather than when we try to behave differently.
Try and change behaviour and they will resist, you already know that.
Start with thinking.
Here’s some thinking on thinking.
Ramping up, getting ahead and staying ahead – exactly what’s needed, right now.
Live Action Coaching gets the team moving in the same direction, creating a multiplier impact on its progress. And as you are leaders this creates a multiplier impact throughout your organisation.
This is exactly what is needed, right now.
Read MoreLet me entertain you
That might work for Robbie Williams but it doesn’t for me nor, ultimately, for my customers. I’m going to leave the entertainment to the likes of Robbie. No icing on dogs turd here.
Read MoreShush, give the thinker a chance to think
If you want something to change you need to enable new thinking. Old thinking reinforces the status quo. Here’s how I think you can tell if the person you are thinking with is thinking old thinking or new thinking and why its useful to have a coach.
Read MoreSurrender, never, not me
For those in charge who are determined to see it through no matter what it takes, you will probably recoil when I challenge you to surrender. Though be clear there’s a world of difference between surrender and giving up. Let’s explore.
Read MoreWhat’s possible?
If we put all the knowledge in the World into a circle it would be a massive circle. If I then think about the extent of my knowledge, what I know, it would be an almost infinitesimally small segment of that circle. Then take into account that most of what I know is probably my…
Read MoreWorking with a coach (Part 2) – shifting your default future
I ‘get’ coaching. It’s an amazing privilege to stretch a person or a team to achieve what they would not have previously thought possible. “Coaching comes from the world of sports and the arts, where athletes and actors receive coaching so that their work will become extraordinary instead of just okay” Steve Chandler, Author and…
Read MoreWorking with a coach (Part 1) – a challenge for managers and leaders
[The challenge is right at the bottom] Years ago when I was a manager my coach said to me “Dave your communication is the response you get”. At the time we were working on my communication skills. I explained to her that I’d spend ages drafting memos (this was before e mail) yet seemed to…
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