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Coaching and relationships Trust is the foundation
The saying 'Relationships are the container everything else fits into' certainly applies to a coach and coachee relationship. Fundamentally, trust is one of the keys - if not the key foundation - any relationship will be built on.
read the full articleCoaching - overcoming objections to developing your business
In this article I will look at core strategies and fundamental skills needed to be a top salesperson. These will allow you easily and effortlessly to enhance your ability to influence clients and overcome their objections to buying coaching from you.
read the full articleCoaching through transition – the vital first 90 days
There are so many different kinds of transition that a general programme or set of guidelines is unlikely to be of use. It is important that the strategy or approach is matched to the situation faced.
read the full articleMaking a success of failure
Both you as coach and your client need to address what to do and what not to do in your quest for success. Learn from the things they and others have got wrong as well as right, making you aware of what you might need to stop doing.
read the full articleCoaching and decision-making
What do you know about decision-making? The authors questioned many executives and coaches and found that their decision-making revolves around taking either a logical approach or an intituitive approach and for some even a mixture of both.
read the full articleMetaphors
As a successful coach you need to gain credibility, build the relationship and define success with your client. However, before that there is the by-no-means small issue of yourself as coach: you need to put your own oxygen mask on first.
read the full articleResilience
There is a war for talent going on, but are those trying to recruit the high-fliers of tomorrow actually fighting it on the right front?
read the full articleState management
Dr Michael Waters reveals just how important your personal 'state' is to success and how you can manipulate it for your own good.
read the full articleOrganisational Politics
Kevin McAlpin and John van Maurik offer you the inside track on playing and winning with office politics, but without compromising your integrity along the way.
read the full articleDerailment
It's something of a mystery to businesses why they promote seemingly infallible go-getters into senior roles and sooner rather than later they flounder and fail to live up to their potential.
read the full articleEmerging talent
If you are losing sleep over just how your company will find the people who will ensure the future of your business then you have every right to be because talent is in increasingly short supply.
read the full articleHistory of Coaching
The concept of coaching has been around for as long as the human race itself. Right from the earliest days the older or more skilled taught the young how to hunt, cook, paint pictures on cave walls and just how to be useful and effective members of their tribes or communities in general.
read the full articleWhen appraisal goes bad
Gary Bean, executive coach at Performance Coaching International digs out real appraisal comments that show you how not to do it
read the full articleGet ahead, get an image
If HR Directors want to make it to the top then they should concentrate on their image and perceptions not just their skills.
read the full articleCompanies in the dark
More than one in every three companies has no idea just what executives are learning when they hire a coach to improve performance, according to new research.
read the full articleSeven principles
Successful organisations have to have a positive culture/attitude, they need to be resilient and bounce back quickly from set backs. If a product or strategy is not working they need to be flexible to try something else and move quickly
read the full articleLeadership vs management
Leadership defines the culture of the organisation. Management instils the culture in the organisation
read the full articleThe Truth of Decision Making
The fascinating truth of how you make decisions long before you realise
read the full articleLeading People for High Performance
"Performance management could be defined as the set of processes by which organisations manage their performance in line with their corporate strategy."
read the full article360 Degree Appraisal - analysis of results
The biggest failing of management is the inability to coach their staff, according the most comprehensive analysis of 360 degree feedback ever done in the UK.
read the full articleCoaching - the key to unlocking discretionary effort
A manager's ability to coach his or her staff is key to getting them to put in discretionary effort - or in other words, go the extra mile for you.
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