Manager-as-coach
A round-up of articles to help managers adopt a coaching style.
Myth buster – The blind must lead the blind
Aboodi shabi In the first in this new series of columns to provoke your thinking about coaching practice, Aboodi Shabi examines a well-held tenet of coaching: the client has
Keeping council
Most in local government are braced for difficult times ahead. But not North East Lincolnshire Council and it’s all down to the performance coaching programme it put in
Mounting pressure to tackle stress to bring opportunities for coaches
Pressure is mounting on employers to step up their stress prevention and management strategies and coaching is likely to be just what the doctor ordered. Ignoring responsibilities
Managers misjudge their strengths and weaknesses
More than half of the UK’s managers misjudge their strengths in the workplace, according to research from Chartered Management Institute (CMI). CMI recently asked 2,000
Adapt and survive
Senior managers are increasingly being asked to work across cultures on a global scale. To do so they need to let go of their ingrained beliefs and become cultural chameleons.
How to… Coach better decision-making
By ROBBIE STEINHOUSE Coming to the ‘correct’ conclusion, and acting on it, is harder than it seems. Coaching has always been a useful clarifier here, but tools such as
If the hat fits
Much has been published on how to improve leadership performance, yet its practice remains uneven. Could coaching hold the key to transferring learning to the workplace, asks
Managers can’t coach! – jamming session
This column is aimed at those who develop managers to show they can coach as well as manage This issue: Jackie Keddy shares her recipe for helping managers make short, sharp
Signed sealed delivered
With Royal Mail facing continual upheavals, it needed radical change to help its leaders cope. Liz Hall explains how Lane4 helped embed a coaching culture that is proving