Author: Antoinette

360 degree feedback mistakes

360 Degree Feedback Mistakes – Are you making them?

How many people do you know have received 360-degree feedback and then made a sustained change in their behaviour?  I’d hazard a guess that you would struggle to name more than one or two. And that’s because organisations often pay a great deal of attention to implementing the process with inadequate attention being paid to how

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How do you use 360 degree feedback to develop leaders

What is 360 Degree Feedback and How Can it Develop your Leaders?

In my recent blog posts I’ve mentioned a 360 development programme I’m delivering for a client. It’s prompted a fair amount of interest and questions so in this post I thought I’d answer a couple of those. In my experience, 360-degree feedback is one of the most effective tools for helping develop leaders as part of a

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Remote Working – Does Out of Sight Mean Out of Mind?

This week I’ve been continuing my review of 360 degree feedback with a leadership team as they start of their coaching programmes. What struck me was how valuable the feedback was in helping leaders recognise the challenges of working remotely and identifying ways of addressing those challenges. My client is a global organisation with a complex

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How to influence others

How to Influence Others (Even if They’re More Senior Than You)

As a leader in an organisation, you’re in the difficult position of having to influence in many directions.  Of course, you need to know how to influence the people you manage but you also need to influence your peers, your bosses, clients and others outside the organisation. Your effectiveness at influencing others depends on the

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talent management strategy

3 Roles Coaching and Mentoring Can Play In Talent Management Strategy

Earlier this year I presented at the Association for Coaching Conference.  The theme of the conference was “Time to Develop” and my session was about the role of coaching and mentoring in talent management strategy.  After a preamble looking at the talent management challenges faced by organisations and why talent management is important, I went

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retaining talented employees

The Secret to Retaining Talented Employees

A few weeks ago I talked about one of my clients, a growing global organisation who needed to grow the management team with the organisation.  One of their biggest challenges was retaining talented employees. Paul was one of the senior people I was asked to work with. For a fast-growing organisation, Client Services is a

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how to develop your high-potential employees

How to Develop Your High Potential Employees

Developing a leadership pipeline is a challenge for most organisations.  You need to think through how to develop your high-potential employees.  Perhaps this post can help. An insight from my own experience Let me start by sharing some of my own experience. You may be surprised to hear that I consider myself fortunate that I

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How Does Talent Coaching Solve the Organisation vs Individual Dilemma?

How Does Talent Coaching Solve the Organisation vs Individual Dilemma?

One of the things that increasingly frustrates me is how development professionals have come to make a distinction between coaching someone to develop their leadership skills and coaching someone to manage their career. Typically, we use the term Leadership Coaching to describe a deliberate and personalised process to promote the leadership growth of an individual and

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