Leaders at Davos told to Coach their people

Businesswoman named “Katherine the Great” and “Superwoman” by the British Press tells Davos world leaders to invest in people and use Coaching.
“The human dynamic in any organisation defines it. Culture is not created by technology, powerpoint presentations or numbers on a spreadsheet. It is our people that create the long-lasting and sustainable threads that will [...]

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When the client coaches the Coach

To head off into the weekend I thought I would share this note that I just received from a client I have been coaching for a little over a year:
One day, there was a blind man sitting on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet and a sign that read: ‘I [...]

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Why Leaders need Coaches part 2

Oganisations expect a great deal from their Executive Leaders. For starters, they ask them to acquire a long list of more or less traditional business skills in finance, cost control, resource allocation, product development, marketing manufacturing, technology, and a dozen other areas. They also demand that they master the management arts – strategy, motivation, persuasion, [...]

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Why Leaders Need Coaches

It is difficult to pin down the qualities needed for leading people and
organizations. Among the most common we hear about these days are integrity, mental toughness, a sense of vision, an ability to listen, to see the
big picture, to analyze concisely, to spot talent and to get the best out of
others. We read too about [...]

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Chess Grand Master on Self-Awareness

One book I recommend time and time again – in fact I have bought so many as I always end up providing clients a copy, is “How Life Imitates Chess” by Garry Kasparov.
Here’s a handful of great quotes from the book – this should help you understand why I think it is relevant to Leaders:
“The [...]

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Communication is Essential

All leaders and all companies talk about the importance of communication.
So why do so many companies struggle to do it well? If you have any doubt, just ask your employees. Effective communication is common sense but not common practice. The explanation for this is twofold. Either leaders don’t actually know how to effectively communicate, or [...]

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The benefits of setting goals

This is the first post on a series about the importance of Goal setting. We’re familiar with strategic plans, business plans, holiday plans, performance management plans, crisis management plans, and so forth. Yet advice on how to get ahead personally often goes unheeded – that’s advice on goal setting.
I hear a good deal of ambivalence [...]

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The Purpose of Executive Coaching

The purpose of executive coaching is to produce better leaders. My purpose in writing this blog (An Executive Coaches Thoughts) is to provide you with actionable, evidence-based advice to capitalise fully from executive coaching while avoiding costly mistakes. This blog will give you powerful yet simple methods and tools to stack the deck in your [...]

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Keeping it simple

We’ve been busy simplifying the MindTram web site. Despite having a keen awareness of the benefits of keeping clutter out of all aspects of my life, for some reason, the MindTram website just kept growing. I was adding more and more articles, more pages, more descriptions of services and on and on.
In Coaching I work [...]

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A coaches journey

One of the greatest quotes of all time – from Gandhi: ‘Be the change you want to see in the world.’
When I first tell this to clients few actually fully understand what Ghandi was saying – so what did Ghandi mean…and how can Coaching can help executives.
Coaching helps by giving the people being coached an [...]

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