Most articles you read talk about the complexity and fast changing pace of the environment in which we work. That change is constant with the need to move quickly to sustain our organisations and to be able to grow. This requires a lot from a leader and from our...
I am very pleased to have contributed this article on The Power of Coaching as part of the latest edition of the Careermag for Lifelong Learning. The article focuses on how coaching can support you with your lifelong learning as you develop through your career. “It...
I am extremely proud and excited to announce the launch of our new online leadership development programme – Your Leadership : Your Future! This is an interactive and practical programme for individuals who are looking to understand themselves better and further...
In both professional and personal development, people see the benefit of talking to someone external. As one person said to me, "you don’t understand something fully until you can actually talk it through with someone else". Having someone who will ask challenging...
After leading the process in several roles in creating company values I have more recently written my own values. What are priorities to me and what qualities and behaviors do I see as important in me and others. Values help us personally to identify and prioritise...
More than ever before there is a sense of needing to be able to find your purpose, what gets you up in the morning and makes you feel motivated. A lot of us are questioning what we do as a job, and if it is what we want out of the future. I have enjoyed working with...
This is something that I was asked recently and something that I think is a common misconception. Coaching is used in a variety of ways, by a diverse range of people – including those who are already successful. In many cases, organisations utilise coaching to enable...
Having just completed my facilitator training for delivering Action Learning Sets, I’ve been reflecting back on my own career and have recognised just how beneficial it would have been to of used this approach more often. Action Learning Sets really do offer something...
Having the right mindset and beliefs are key to starting a business but for many of us there is so much more to this than simply having a great business idea and a plan full of actions. A growth mindset along with belief and motivation is important to start, run and...
It is interesting looking back over the last three months at the range of clients that I have been working with as to why they have wanted to work with a coach and what has been most useful to them as part of our coaching sessions. In the main it has been about really...
