GETTING BETTER

US executive coach, Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world’s most influential management thinkers and pioneer of 360-degree feedback, tells Liz Hall how he helps successful leaders achieve positive behaviour changes, and why he gives away most of his advice American...

HANDS OFF!

The boss of a large organisation finds himself mired in its day-to-day running, pulled in by senior managers who rely heavily on him for answers. How can he extricate himself and concentrate instead on furthering his company’s strategic business aims? John is managing...

REACHING THE HEART OF COACHING

 A series of columns on our role in tackling the complicated economic, environmental and social challenges we face. It is a place to question, offer, share, explore, challenge, dissent, celebrate, reflect, learn and enjoy Some years ago we heard a story: two of the...

MIND TAMING

AMANDA RIDINGS A journey to a Holy Isle retreat in Scotland holds one coach’s assumptions to account On the ordnance survey map, Holy Isle, off the east coast of Arran, Scotland, is roughly the shape and size of my thumb. On the ferry from Ardrossan, it’s pointed out...

COME CLOSER TO THE EDGE…

LINDSAY WITTENBERG Questioning a client’s closely held, yet damaging beliefs, involves risk-taking on both sides. But, liberation awaits In September 2014, the Open University published a Green Paper1 on understanding risk, aimed at creating fresh thinking about how...