Coaching

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How to coach confidence into teammates to improve your personal leadership

Behaviour, Being authentic as a leader, Building Confidence, Coaching, Developing a strong mindset, Diversity, Handling office politics, Leadership / By / / , , , , ,

You likely want to reduce your workload and grow the talent around you. That’s part of any professional’s personal leadership journey. Who doesn’t want the time back that they spend advising people and giving orders. This is particularly important for people you know are perfectly competent, but perhaps lack confidence?  Make the switch to being a’coaching manager’ […]

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Executive coaching

Focus on self-improvement by asking ‘What’s important?’

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Asking ‘what’s important’ is a great hack for releasing yourself from judgement and a great way towards self-improvement. In an increasingly anxious world, letting go of that can help you, your family but also your colleagues. Digging deeper into what’s important can unearth real value and help you shed unhelpful judgements.  My guilty secret? ‘Judgement’

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How to Work a Micro-Question

Coaching, Handling office politics, Leadership, Negotiating well / By / / , , ,

As part of my continuing theme on how to use coaching skills with your team members, I thought I’d share how to use ultra-powerful ‘micro’ questions. Have you ever had a difficult conversation where you’ve left thinking ‘I probably said too much… and not enough of what should have been said’? The truth is we all often say too much, not only when we are

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Effective open questions

How to use effective open questions

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What’s the difference between ‘Did you have a good day?’ and ‘What did you do today? The first seems engaging, the use of ‘good’ even suggestive of a potentially positive result. It’s a winner, right? Well, it actually depends on what you need.  When you are with your colleagues, you’ll often get more out of them by

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Victim of workplace bullying

How to handle workplace bullying in the moment

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Office idiots – or those who get off on workplace bullying. We all know one, perhaps work with one now 🙁 I’m not talking about incompetent people who are out of their depth, but those who aggressively use their behaviour or comments to bully others. Let’s be clear, incompetence and bullying can overlap in the same ‘fun

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