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Employee Engagement – The Business Case for Improvement

Sir Terry Leahy in the November 2011 Personnel management Magazine identifies the four things an organisation has to provide employees in order for them to feel engaged. Continue reading “Employee Engagement – The Business Case for Improvement” »

Women in Business – the key to success is sponsorship

The Catalyst organisation studied what it takes for women to get promoted. In August 2011 the report was published and it found that it takes more than just hard work for women to be noticed and get promoted. The key to success is organisational sponsorship. Continue reading “Women in Business – the key to success is sponsorship” »

Performance Reviews Made Easy

Performance reviews seem to cause concern to both Managers and their Staff. We find in our Company Executive Coaching practice that this topic seems to come up fairly frequently.

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The Power of Metaphor and Imagery in Executive Coaching

One important aim of executive coaching is to raise the awareness of clients about their thoughts, feelings and situation. This enables clients to obtain fresh insights and new perspectives on their situation and as a result find solutions that are right for them. Continue reading “The Power of Metaphor and Imagery in Executive Coaching” »

Leadership – It’s about Skills not Personality!

I am a firm believer that great leaders do not come out of any particular personality mould. In executive coaching I have worked with, outstanding leaders all of whom had different personalities. Contrary to what some believe about leadership they were not all lively extroverts who had magnetic and charismatic personalities. Continue reading “Leadership – It’s about Skills not Personality!” »

How to Influence the Way You Feel

You can have a perfect life, a perfect career, a great relationship, wonderful friends, lots of money and great health – and chances are you are still doing your share of daily suffering (worry, anxiety, desire, aversion, excessive thinking, etc.). So, what about the other 99.999% of humanity, who have lots of things they would desperately like to change? They definitely have more than their fair share of day to day suffering. This sort of suffering is simply a fact of the human condition.

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The Clients’ Experience of the Executive Coaching Relationship

Many of the books and literature on executive coaching emphasise the importance of the coaching relationship.  However most of these seem to do this from the perspective of practitioners rather than that of clients.  This could be seen as a particular problem, if as suggested, the clients’ view of the quality and strength of the relationship may differ to that of the coach, but provide a better prediction of coaching outcome.

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What’s the Value in Building Emotional Intelligence?

The concept of emotional intelligence-and whether women have more of it than men, and whether that makes them better leaders-has stirred up quite a debate lately. Now we’ve got some research from The University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and the University of Amsterdam that addresses the question behind much of the discussion: What’s the relationship, if any, between emotional intelligence and character? Does having social skills mean you’re a kinder, gentler manager–or more effective one?

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