RBS targets talent to raise spirits

After news of Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) mismanagement emerged in October 2008, employees had eggs thrown at them and were refused drinks in Edinburgh pubs. The bank’s Group Internal Audit (GIA) division launched a talent coaching programme to...

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What can we learn from how others see the world? This new column peers through different lenses, exploring how ideas and perspectives might be woven into coaching and mentoring News reporters and coaches have more in common than it seems. Both look at stories from a...

Book reviews — Volume 5, Issue 3

  Title Where Were all the Coaches When the Banks Went Down? Author John Blakey and Ian Day Publisher 121partners ISBN 978 1 445 21597 6 Usefulness 4/5 This book has its heart firmly in the right place: it wants to improve the practice of coaching. Its theme, in...