This week’s blog is of particular interest to you if you are a coach.
There’s a great webinar programme run by ICF Master Coaches this year on the ICF Core Competencies and I’m delighted and humbled that they’ve asked me to deliver one on Coaching Presence.
I have to say I am sometimes a bit cynical about corporate values (there, I said it!). Not because they are not good things to have – in theory they are – but because so often they are words created to sound good, written by the senior team, a ‘project group’ or a bunch of consultants who then think ‘job done’. But everyone else thinks they are being ‘done to’.
No-one in the business really understands them or remembers them and even if they do, they don’t necessarily see those values being lived or breathed on a daily basis.
And we all know that actions speak louder than words.
Depending on how much you love Christmas that heading made you sigh or smile……..
The thing is many of us wait until 1st January to think about how we want our next year to pan out.
But imagine if you started now – If there is just ONE thing you would like to be different you can make a start with one small step.
And then another.
As always I’m taking a break from writing new blogs in August to recharge my batteries (I try to practise what I preach) so over this month I will be sharing four of this year’s most popular blog posts with you. If you haven’t read them yet….here’s your chance!
This week it’s:
As always I’m taking a break from writing new blogs in August to recharge my batteries (I try to practise what I preach) so over this month I will be sharing four of this year’s most popular blog posts with you. If you haven’t read them yet….here’s your chance!
This week it’s:
As always I’m taking a break from writing new blogs in August to recharge my batteries (I try to practise what I preach) so over this month I will be sharing four of this year’s most popular blog posts with you. If you haven’t read them yet….here’s your chance!
This week it’s: Tricky Workplace Conversations
As always I’m taking a break from writing new blogs in August to recharge my batteries (I try to practise what I preach) so over this month I will be sharing four of this year’s most popular blog posts with you. If you haven’t read them yet….here’s your chance!
This week it’s: This article in The Guardian outlines why, even though you might be the smartest person in the room, you struggle to move ‘up’ or ‘on’ in your career.
There’s been a bit of a theme in the team coaching and 1-1 work I’ve been doing this last couple of months and I wanted to share it with you.
It’s this – we say we want people to contribute, to share ideas, to challenge our thinking – and yet we do just about everything to stop this from happening. Quite unintentionally, of course.
Here’s a couple of recent examples:
For many of us, the summer holidays can’t come soon enough. And yet you know that there’s a huge amount to be done before you leave for your much-needed break…. And much as you need to totally relax when you’re away, you just KNOW that there will be things you ‘have’ to deal with from your sunbed, mountain or lake…..
You know what? It really doesn’t have to be this way.
Last week I wrote about the importance of building a firm foundation when you lead or join a new team.
This is not a ‘one off’ exercise but it doesn’t have to mean you spend days and days off-site unless you choose to.
