Improve your company’s productivity by 30% and create a functional framework for future growth Three questions CEOs often ask themselves… “Am I, as CEO, the bottleneck holding back the company’s progress?” “Where are my energies focused – on Today, Tomorrow or the Future?” “How engaged are my teams and how much energy and focus are they delivering?” And how […]
Continue readingFrom defining self-confidence to explaining confidence coaching… here are my latest thoughts. But first, a little quotation…”Confidence and deference are not mutually exclusive, and it’s usually a lack of deference rather than excess of confidence that gets powerful people into trouble.” – Adam Galinsky and Maurice SchweitzerConfidence has proven hard to define over the years. […]
Continue readingStrategic DirectionThe majority of business owners manage their strategic planning process by making annual sales and revenue forecasts towards their financial year end, for one to five years. Is this you? Have you also identified how well the functional areas in your business interact and whether they are appropriately proportioned to the whole? If you […]
Continue readingCoaching & MentoringFor the umpteenth time I had yet another one of those frustrating circular conversations with a ‘fellow executive coach’ at the recent EMCC International Coaching and Mentoring Conference in Edinburgh. It went a little like this… FELLOW COACH: “What does CoachDirectors do?” ME: “We provide executive coaches with commercial acumen to businesses. All our coaches […]
Continue readingRobots taking overWe know it’s coming, we’ve been warned repeatedly. Robots are going to be taking over our jobs. Previous predictions have suggested that manual jobs were likely to be the first to go and if you work in manufacturing, logistics or the service industry, now would be a good time to take that course you […]
Continue readingFor many leaders, a lack of sleep can sometimes be seen as something to take pride in. In the office, people often mention how little sleep they’ve had as if this fact demonstrates their effectiveness, dedication, or ambition. It may seem like the best way to get ahead of the pack is to skip out […]
Continue reading“I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous…” Lady Gaga It’s lonely at the top and it can be a terrifying place. You spend your whole life climbing that mountain only to arrive at the summit to realise that the only way on from there is down. Being […]
Continue readingRecently, I have been pondering on the question of coaching confidence, or, perhaps more accurately, confidence coaching. A few years ago I read a Harvard Business Review article that said something like… ‘30% of US CEO’s were suffering from imposter syndrome.’ That is, they were waiting for the tap on the shoulder that says “you’ve […]
Continue readingYou’d have to have been living in a cave for the last 12 months not to have come across these four letters… GDPR. The General Data Protection Regulation is a new EU ruling which in layman’s terms enshrines the protection of personal data by law. Our short guide to GDPR is for busy business people who […]
Continue readingAllez les Filles Are you celebrating International Women’s Day? It’s all happening this week, on March 8th, and we’ve been busy working out ways in which we can lend our support. There are more women in positions of power than ever before, but the gender equality gap is still a yawning chasm. Reports this year suggest […]
Continue readingInternational Women’s Day As we celebrate International Women’s Day this year and reflect on the achievements of women and the many challenges that they are still faced with, what really strikes me is how often women remain silent about the issues that are really affecting them. This phenomenon was blown wide open this year with the […]
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