‘Conduct risk’ or costly bad behaviour should be a concern for everyone. It’s terrible to have colleagues whose poor choices in the way they behave affects your career. It’s even worse when their behaviour is conveniently overlooked. In the last few months, this ‘brushing under the carpet’ and asking people to ‘move on’ seems very timely. Conduct […]
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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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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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It may feel a bit early in the year to start talking about sexual harassment in the workplace :0 but this January, it’s come up top of the agenda for one of my corporate clients. In many ways their enquiry is positive; this is an organisation that my have historically ‘looked the other way’, but now knows that’s no
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As an American citizen living in the UK, I will not be the only person who has speculated how things might have been different, if at all, with more female global leaders over the last few years. We’ve been living through overconfidence as male leaders talk about how they’re handling Covid, the economic crisis, and now readiness to tackle climate change. It
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