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Gaining Employee Input
On the surface it may appear to be a straight forward issue, but it is easy to give advice rather than actively seek employee’s involvement and it can be easy to allow one’s own biases to guide the discussion... more
Do, Review, Conclude and Plan
Peter Honey and Alan Mumford are best known for their definitions of learning styles. Knowing your learning style can also help avoid repeating mistakes... more
Total Coaching
Linking coaching with objectives and project tasks or activities is a highly productive and effective modern method of training and developing people in organisations, especially for staff in teams and departments, and for developing organisations themselves... more
Help Your Colleagues G.R.O.W.
One key role of any leader is to coach team members to achieve their best. As “coach”, you will typically help your team members to solve problems, make better decisions, learn new skills or otherwise progress in their role or career... more
Are These Issues Affecting Your Business?
Then you may be in a situation where you need to be doing coaching of your own... more
Which Learning Style Are You?
The four major Styles of Learning are defined as... more
Money Or Motivation – Who Wins?
This week we saw some of the highest paid employees in Britain at work - footballers... more
What Makes A Great Coach?
There are some powerful enablers and inhibitors to an effective coaching relationship, when these are understood coaching can really take root as an underpinning foundation to achieving higher performance... more
Coaching and Mentoring – Critical Business Skills
Is coaching on your list of priorities? If it isn't, it should be. All organisations know that their success depends on having great people doing a great job. This sounds a simple objective, but as we all know, it is not necessarily easy to put into place... more
A Quick Guide to Mentoring
Mentoring can be a very useful way of helping people to give their best. Like any technique that is attracting attention, firstly it is important to get the definitions clear... more
Who Is Coaching Who?
Coaching remains high on many training departments’ agendas, but it’s not always seen as such a priority by individuals in the workplace. Too often employees... more
Feedback And How To Avoid It
Personal development isn’t just about training courses. In order to develop their employees managers and colleagues need to give and receive feedback on an ongoing basis. But it’s not always easy. Some people will go to great lengths to avoid hearing feedback... more
Take A Look In The Mirrors
Many organisational change programmes fail. This is indisputable fact, but the reasons for failure are often less clear and will depend on who you ask. Failure is often attributed to insufficient investment, yet occasionally even over investment can... more
