A lot of my work with my clients is focused on gaining a greater awareness of yourselves and finding the ‘real you’. Recently I met with a coaching client who had lost her passion for her work. She was less motivated and found it harder to focus on the goals of her team and organisation….
As a busy leader, do you miss out on opportunities to connect with your team? With little time available, it’s easy to reduce your contact to brief progress updates before rushing back to work. In the long run, the lack of personal contact is demoralising and damages your team’s ability to perform. But when you…
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How do you feel when you hear negative feedback about your behaviour? Especially when the complaint comes from the person you feel is at fault? As a leader, you are expected to role model certain behaviours. But this isn’t easy when team members speak over you or appear to challenge your authority in front of…
We’ve all been to meetings where everyone sits around the table, staring at their papers, just waiting to get things over with and get out of the room. Meetings like this are transactional and impersonal. With a packed agenda, they become rigid and inflexible, often running over and leading to a mass exodus as everyone…
Something I’ve noticed when working with leaders in coaching or facilitated sessions is our natural tendency to focus outside ourselves. We spend all our time concentrating on the things that are visible to others – our behaviour, language or body language – but not really noticing what’s going on inside. Recently, a client described a…
An issue I’m hearing from many of the senior leaders I work with is how some of their staff are just ‘turning up’ for work. They don’t really seem interested in their work; they walk around in a robotic fashion, and just seem to go through the motions until it’s time to go home. They…
Have you ever tried to introduce a new way of working, only to experience a strong resistance from your team? During the last few leadership development programmes I’ve facilitated, this problem has shown up as a common theme. All fired up with their new learning, the leaders enthusiastically dove into their new questioning style with…
Recently, I was working with a group of senior leaders who all expressed their frustration about the lack of engagement with staff. This was particularly noticeable during meetings, where the conversations were all one way and despite asking open questions to engage staff, they felt they just weren’t getting anywhere. In my experience, when staff…
