Coaching

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

[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…

Constructing Excellence in the North East asked me to give a talk on ‘Leadership’ to young professionals in their Generation for Change (G4C) group. Rather than turn up and talk I identified fifteen questions they could explore and then on the day asked them to vote for the five they were most interested in. We…