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Studies highlight poor management behaviour A string of studies has revealed unethical behaviour, poor strategic skills and shaky people management ability among managers and leaders, prompting calls for employers to “step up”, and highlighting the contribution that...

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South Africa: training omits Afrocentric values A South African black woman was traumatised by being propelled into coaching an older white male in front of other coach trainees, a request that stirred up ghosts of Apartheid and became confused with traditional...

Hurry up and wait

Katharine St John-Brooks Internal coaches face a dearth of clients because of poor process management. The good news is that it’s easy to put right. Do internal coaches have enough to do? In the course of researching my new book on internal coaching, I came across an...

Reflections: Lightly does it

Lindsay Wittenberg How do we help clients find their way back into safety following intense experiences? Lately I’ve become aware of how often extremes of uncertainty come up in my coaching sessions. Any leader’s life is full of the unpredictable, the ambiguous and...

Reviews

Book   Title: Full Spectrum Supervision Editors: Edna Murdoch and Jackie Arnold Publisher Panoma Press ISBN 978 1908 74699 3 Usefulness *****   The subtitle of this collection is “Who you are, is how you supervise”, and the essays within it amply illustrate...