This post was originally published in the Newsletter for CIPD Management Toolclicks. You can read the original article here. One of the key challenges of being a manager and a leader is that you have to develop a much more sophisticated set of communication skills. Leadership is all about making things happen through others and that
Resistance to change is a natural phenomenon. At an individual level, change can create a mixed range of emotional response. A Global Survey by McKinsey in 2006 (Organising for Successful Change Management), shows that where change had not been successful, the dominant emotions were anxiety, frustration and confusion. While those emotions were not necessarily absent
In my last blog post “Case Study: How a Coaching Style of Leadership Can Help Employees Take Ownership & Responsibility”, I described a Solutions Focus (SF) Coaching for Leaders Programme I am delivering that is helping employees take ownership and responsibility. The case study featured in a presentation at the Coaching and at Work Conference:
Earlier this year, Coaching at Work Magazine featured a programme I am working on as a case study in an article they called “The Ripple Effect”. If you are a subscriber, you can read the full article here. Or read on to learn more. In 2008, Mark McKergow, the Director of sfwork, invited me to
Are you responsible for leadership training within your organisation? If so, you have one of the toughest jobs going in this difficult climate. With the highly competitive nature of business today, organisations are holding everyone to higher standards. This means that business leaders are being pressured to deliver results – and HR/Learning & Development Departments are
A key leadership skill is the ability to commit to personal and business goals. We are now well into the third week of January and those of us who like to set goals for the calendar year will have them well defined and established. So let me tell you about one of mine. On 22
Leadership is a huge subject surrounded by numerous theories. A recent search on Amazon revealed 160,194 books that have been written about the subject. That’s a lot of books! And a very long leadership development programme if you were to try and include all that they contain. So how do you determine the focus and
In today’s tough economic circumstances, business leaders are seeking competitive advantage through the best use of their people more than ever before. In a time when the job market is uncertain many leaders may feel that supporting the career management of their staff is not a priority, seeing it as something that is personal to
Yesterday I ran the Great North Run for the tenth time. I don’t say that to boast – although I am quite proud. Every single run was hard. I’m not a natural athlete. If I’m a natural anything its a natural party girl who loves to eat good food and drink great wine. I didn’t
Effective leaders and managers need to have enthusiastic followers. Since people are your key source of competitive advantage, you need every single employee to be fully committed to taking the company forward and doing everything they can to make it a success in the future. Unfortunately, the recession forced many companies to alter their course.
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