Ideas, insights and inspirations
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Coaching 101: Myths busted and advice for using a coaching approach
Coaching 101: Myths busted and advice for using a coaching approach Do you want to help your team members improve their performance? Do your one-to-one meetings often end up with you giving all the answers and telling them what to do? Do you want your team to be more self-sufficient and empowered? If the answer…
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Book Review: The Positive Organization by Robert E Quinn
So many business books leave you wondering “…but how does that work in reality?” That’s not a problem with The Positive Organization – this short book (less than 160 pages from cover to cover) is packed with ideas, examples, case studies and practical exercises, written in an engaging and straightforward style. Throughout, Quinn challenges us to consider…
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You only win when you’re singing
In Britain, football crowds have songs for every occasion. If your team overturns a losing position, to taunt the opposition fans now sitting in crestfallen silence, you bellow at them: “You only sing when you’re winning” (improbably to the tune of a traditional Cuban song, Guatanamera). But have the fans got this the wrong…
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The future of learning and development?
The days are numbered for sheep-dip, classroom-based training courses, chosen by the L&D team, and often forgotten by the following week. Well, maybe not numbered, but the recent CIPD/ Towards Maturity report – Driving Performance and Productivity provides evidence that companies relying on old-fashioned models of learning and development are being outstripped by those embracing…
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7 questions for impactful leadership
Review of the Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier Your team sometimes just need a bit of support to shine. You can provide this support through changing your leadership approach to coaching. Helping people to find their own solutions is more impactful than giving advice, providing rules or direction. You can coach anytime, anywhere, and with…
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Impactful women leaders
Worldwide, at the lower levels of organisations over half of the staff members are female but if you look higher the number of women shrinks. Therefore, we’d like to share with you list of 5 impactful leaders who just happen to be female. Sheryl Sandberg – The COO of Facebook and founder of the Lean…
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#Girlboss review
Sophia Amoruso is an interesting and inspiring millennial. She is the founder of one of the fastest-growing retailers on the planet, Nasty Gal and the author of #Girlboss, a book about her and the company’s story. The business began with selling off vintage clothing and accessories on eBay, currently she is the leader of internationally…
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Where does the courage come in?
I fairly recently went to an event on Women’s Leadership Careers organised by the Chartered Management Institute’s (CMI) Women in Management (WiM) Network. The keynoter was none other than CMI’s CEO Ann Francke, an remarkably dynamic and engaging speaker. Ann shared her wealth of knowledge and experience about progressing in the ranks of organisations as…
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Celebrating women in leadership
Against the backdrop of Theresa May taking office as the UK’s second ever female Prime Minister and Hillary Clinton potentially becoming the first female President, women at work are still paid significantly less than men and there are fewer of them the higher up the management ranks you look. Yet there are some shining examples…
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The best LinkedIn Influencers
LinkedIn is the most known professional social networking platform; it encourages the world’s leading thinkers and innovators to be Influencers. As “leaders in their industries and geographies”, they explore news and trending topics. We recommend to follow these 7: Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hootsuite Hootsuite is a social media management resource, and its CEO is…
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The Financial Times Essential Guide to Negotiations
This book provides what it promises on the cover – how to achieve win-win outcomes in each of your business deals. A straightforward, practical guide that lists what is required to achieve success. Geof Cox’s book comes with a great, logical and easy-to-follow structure: 1.Planning it 2.Doing it 3.Reviewing it The writer recognises and comments…
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Doing good, doing business
Social enterprise is a dynamic and also motivating way to do business, it’s an interesting and fast growing sector, a movement not only in the UK but around the globe. Social enterprises are businesses trading to address social problems, improve communities, people’s quality of life or the environment. It seems the same as charity work…