Executive Coach – How To Pick A Good One “How do I pick a good Executive Coach?” David, a Learning and Development Director, asked. A good question, and as coaching is an unregulated industry, worthy of an answer. I’d like to suggest there are five critical components to picking a[...]
SRA’s Continuing Competence Challenge – A Solution With the SRA’s new Continuing Competence rules solicitors and law firms now face a number of challenges. Solicitors now need to: reflect on practice to identify learning and development needs plan how to address learning and development needs think about how[...]
Stress, adrenal fatigue, exhaustion As an executive coach I work with many individuals who suffer from exhaustion. Symptoms include; Waking up in the morning but not feeling refreshed Brain fog – struggling to find appropriate words A sense that someone has fed them sleeping tablets[...]
Leadership: Making difficult decisions Senior leaders of large organisations wrestle with making difficult decisions. In almost every case, the decision involves people. Real, living, breathing, emotional, caring, hard working people. Take current stringent government budget cuts. Council leaders need to decide how best to reduce[...]
Dealing with difficult employees Dealing with difficult employees can be hard. We’ve all come across them. Disaffected. Despondent. Depressed. Every time we try we try dealing with difficult employees, it seems our best attempts are thrown back in our face. Many of these employees may be disengaged meaning[...]
3 tips to enjoy more than 0.3% growth Relief. The UK avoided the triple dip recession. What’s more, although 0.3% is not a large number, growth was higher than expected (though don’t be surprised if its revised down as more data becomes available). Many businesses[...]
Executive Coaching Research Executive Coaching Research shows executive coaching improves personal and organisational performance at executive level. A lot of the research is anecdotal, or based on case studies. There are very few research projects which provide empirical evidence (involving control groups, boule blinds etc) that[...]