Unlocking the Potential Effective communication, coupled with coaching that is task orientated and driven by the desire to improve, are critical tasks for leaders at every level. To be an effective coach, we must develop our communication skills so that we engage our people in a safe and non-threatening manner. We need to understand [...]
Mentoring and Coaching – The Same or Different? Whenever we talk about developing the capabilities of our leaders, the terms coaching and mentoring come up. In fact they are readily used by all and are used without any apparent understanding of the distinction between the two. In my experience, many leaders assume that coaching [...]
To Lead, You Need to Coach We have spoken before about the development of our people being a strategic imperative. Time and again the research shows us that our team members highly value the opportunity to learn and build their skills. The same research also clearly states that the best development tool we have [...]
Coaching for Success Leaders are constantly being asked to come up with ways of improving productivity, increasing retention and enhancing the levels of engagement in their organisations. In order to achieve these improved outcomes, leaders need their people to be performing at their full potential. So now the development of our people is looking [...]
How we define ‘coaching’ makes all the difference to how we interpret the definition of a coaching culture. Primarily this is because different definitions of a coaching culture may focus on different aspects of whatever we define as ‘coaching’. Under most definitions, a ‘coaching culture’ is generally said to be present when all members of [...]
