Personal Effectiveness
What’s it like at the top these days?
This year I’m adjusting my focus a bit. I’m still coaching leadership teams though looking to do more 121 work with the people right at the top. By all accounts 2023 is going to be a tough year and support is being ramped up for staff, but who is there for the person at the top? They have their business advisors, that’s handled; I’m talking more about them as a person as a human being. If you’re right at the top what’s it like for you?
Read MoreWho are you, revisited.
We were talking about values and I took the opportunity to share a distinction I was taught many years ago. Success is about who we are as a human being and who we “be” is informed by our lived values. Here we revisit a blog I wrote seven years ago; circumstances may have changed though the notion is relevant for testing times.
Read MoreDouble-plus coming of age
“What one piece of wisdom would you give that people would want to share?” Mine is this: your capacity for success equals the conversations you’re having, minus the conversations you’re not having, multiplied by the way you’re having them.
Read MoreFocus on the next lamppost
You got a big challenge ahead; you can see a large part of it. Its daunting, even overwhelming. I remember as a young trainee civil engineer on Howdon Sewage Treatment Works thinking how does the Site Agent manage all of this. The size of the task seemed incomprehensible to me. Round about the same time I watched a film about the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon and thought wow! I could never do that. Well, that was in the late seventies and I’ve come a long way since then, thanks to this little strategy…
Read MoreMy top ten reads from 2021
Here’s the best 10 books I read in 2021. And here’s what’s included: a career changing top tip from a serial entrepreneur, a deep meditation on quality, rediscovering our place on planet Earth – in conversation with a guerrilla, Unilever leading the way, numbers and measurement and the trouble that causes, marketing wisdom viewed 57 million times – there must be something in it, how to think and how coaching could change everything…
Read MoreIs your mindset serving you well?
You get the job with your qualifications and you get promoted or not depending on your mindset.
Maybe?
How do you see it, what’s your mindset?
There’s something great about listening – “you’ve got the job!”
A good listening can land you a top job or maybe save the one you’ve got.
A good listening is needed now more than ever, but how?
Here’s a useful tool that works, it’s not the whole answer but it is a good start.
10 tips for building confidence in times of crisis
We are in choppy waters though we are going to get through. We can do anything when our confidence is high. But how to build confidence in times of crisis? Here’s some thinking …
Read MoreMy top ten reads from 2018.
At the end of one of my Programmes Paul asked me for my recommended reading list. So, here goes. I’ve looked back over the books I have read in 2018 and picked my top ten. Some of them are from the early nineties, pre-internet. Yes, there was wisdom prior to the internet and much of it is needed right now. It’s personal though I am confident it’s a useful list.
Read MoreA six year old with a chain saw
Do you overprotect your staff cos they are ‘not old enough’ or ‘experienced enough’ yet? On Saturday I was cycling up a long hill in the countryside when I saw people trimming back hedges and trees. As I got closer I noticed a man and child, who was no more than five or six years…
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