Browsing posts in the ‘Leadership’ category
The Strategic Latte
Most people fall way, way short of fulfilling their potential and it happens for loads of different reasons. It is all to easy to lose sight of your goals, to get bogged down, to spend time on the wrong things or to try to do everything. Coaching can play a major part in unlocking performance, but you don't actually need...
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Why you shouldn’t follow advice
There is plenty of advice around and plenty of people willing to offer it! Every time I look on Twitter, Linkedin, at my RSS feeds or the Podcasts I've got saved for long journeys, I see loads of advice being offered and lots of case studies, best practices, motivational quotes, and 'success secrets'! There is a lot of good material,...
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Bringing People and Projects together
I was recently asked to give a presentation at an interview based on providing project best practice and guidance. One of the questions asked was “How would you work with a group of project managers to ensure the projects are well run?” I started off by highlighting that I am passionate about effective engagement and why it is...
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Are you following the unclear path?
I've been very inspired by the TEDxConcordia talk by Tara Hunt (@missrogue on Twitter) who is a startup entrepreneur and CEO of Buyosphere. If you can't see the embedded video above, please click here to see it....
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The hunt for ROI
ROI seems to be a constant debate which never gets resolved! This last week, I've seen lots of things on the ROI of Coaching, read about Impact Reporting for charities, and attended a great discussion on Social Media ROI,organised by The Feed, and all are wrestling with...
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Leading Change (Kotter) – Part 2
In the previous post, I reflected on how change is important yet often poorly executed (with a reported 70% of change initiatives failing) and introduced John Kotter's eight-stage process of creating major change by looking at the reasons why change initiatives fail. Kotter points...
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Leading Change (Kotter) – Part 1
Having recently reviewed Seth Godin's 'Poke the Box', I've been reflecting on the paradox that change is crucially important and yet we are not very good at it; According to Harvard Business Review, 70% of all change initiatives fail. So, in general, we're really bad at doing...
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