What Makes a good coach?
I believe that we should be the one who believes in your player’s innate ability and encourages them to be excellent. Each individual member of their team has their own strengths, weaknesses and lived experience that will inform how they show up in any situation. It’s the excellent coach who can harness their team’s innate abilities and balance that with business goals and overarching team desires. That’s how you can create an excellent team.
Unsure how to become the best coach? Or overwhelmed by how to truly tap into the best of those around you? Don’t stress. Coaching, managing, leading a team- whatever word you use, is a skill that needs to be learned and acquired just like any other.
Measuring Excellence
The Business Excellence Indicator (BEI) is, as the name implies, an indicator of the excellence of the business. Excellence is showing up as the best version of yourself (or your company) every day
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An instant can change someone else’s life
An instant can change someone else’s life
The last few weeks have highlighted to me how an instant can change your life, through pretty much no fault of your own.
This has however made me think about how an instant can change some else’s life. How often are we careless with our words and deeds and (hopefully) unintentionally cause harm to someone else.
I am not standing on a soap box preaching morality and good deeds. I am reflecting on how we often do things that may seem innocuous and even innocent but have major re-percussions on other people’s lives.
An instant can change your life.
The best way to lead…
One of the best leadership lessons I was fortunate enough to learn is that the best way to lead your people is to ask how can I help you fix this? How can I help you through this challenge?
What is keeping you awake at night
Many years ago, one of my team who was relatively new at the office came in one morning and said “I woke up at 3 this morning and I was worried about client XXX”. My response was “welcome to my world”.
Return on Culture - Part 1
Culture has become the buzzword of the decade and organizations still struggle to find a path to creating rich and robust culture and business excellence. Once achieved this yields a measurable return on culture.
Finding Low hanging fruit
I was sitting in the garden looking at my lemon tree. I noticed that the lemons were visible in the lower half of the tree. I then realized the significant link between these lemons and many businesses out there.
What Happens "now now"
When confronted with the pandemic of 2020 there were myriads of responses from various people and I thought I would classify them into the words of my upbringing and my adopted country.
What happens “Just Now” ?
As the world cycles through emerging from lockdown and retreating into lockdown its businesses are going to have to restart. That is a pretty obvious statement but has multitudes of meanings.
Sitting, waiting and wishing is not a strategy.
However, every time I am on the beachfront, I see many groups of surfers staring out at the ocean and I think of the words of Jack Johnson’s song as these surfers are most certainly waiting and wishing.
Right Place - Right Time
And so being in the right place at the right time is now in whatever business you're in. It is about looking at that business in a lot of detail, without getting caught in the detail.
Soaking up the rain
And so just like the plants in the garden that are soaking up the physical rain, I am soaking up the metaphysical rain
Motivating your mind
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What is a Mentor - Do you need one (many) ?
The idea of a long term mentor is one who provides a framework for the mentee to be able to grow.
Profiling tools : Divine or Devil ?
What are profiling and assessment tools, and what is their role in your organization ?
How flexible is your organization ?
This article considers the need for the cultures of the future to be fundamentally focused on creating flexible working environments. This is not around the bean bags in the meeting rooms or the table tennis tables and most certainly not about hot desking and open plan offices.
Lifelong learners or learners for Life ?
The question is why lifelong learning is becoming a critical factor in the cultures of tomorrow and the future of work.
Employee experience or employee engagement – the future ?
Employee engagement extends to understanding the role of the employer in the life of the employee, hence the future of the employee experience.