'Executive coaching' Category
Building a Culture of Confidence and Success
Confidence is at the very heart of effective performance. The media continuously bombards us with very public examples of individuals and teams in the performing arts and professional sports arena buckling under pressure from crises of confidence when strong confidence is call for. For me, people like Susan Boyle and the England rugby squad spring [...]
Building Strong Coaching Partnerships
The starting point for a coaching assignment is typically (but not always) a problem or “gap” which threatens to derail the client’s career. Therefore, upon engagement, the client’s focus of attention and initial expectation are typically centred on their problems and weaknesses. There are two reasons for this. The first is that they have learned [...]
Response to “Picking over the Human Remains, a resource that business could let go”, Times, October 5 2009
I’m sure many human resources and training professionals were surprised and dissapointed to read this article in such a highly respected British newspaper. For those of you who didn’t read the article, the final paragraph will probably give you the gist of what the rest of the article contains. The journalist, Sathnam Sanghera, writes:
“Get rid [...]