Most people are generally aware of the benefit of executive coaching. These might include an individual tapping into their resources and finding answers for new and creative ways to move forward, building confidence and resilience, developing talent and leadership capability, enhanced self awareness and emotional intelligence to name but a few. In my experience there is […]
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A Wolf Among the Flock The world of business is as vast as it is varied and yet there are many constants. One such certainty is the characters we will encounter in whatever office we find ourselves. Throughout our working lives, we’ll meet any number of types, some good, some bad, and some very ugly. We have come […]
Continue readingYou can take the C-suite out of training, but you can’t take… If you visit Google HQ, you’ll probably find a lot of strange rooms, but oddly you might find there’s one missing. It should be there between the ball pond and virtual tennis courts, just across the hall from the chocolate fountain. It was a […]
Continue readingThere are many opposites in life, forces trying to dominate one another, and without this phenomena there would be no Die Hard. I’m talking good versus evil, just in case you were wondering where I was going with this. So sure, while John Maclean and Professor Snape have it out on a Christmas tower block, we […]
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Executive Coach, Stephen Daltrey asks: To be or not to be unreasonable? In May 1961 President Kennedy set the American people the goal of landing a man on the moon and bringing him back safely (in case the Russians landed a man and left him there) by the end of the decade. This was by any […]
Continue readingWho is the client?The debate amongst coaching practitioners has waged for many years with firm opinions on both sides. For some it’s the coachee, the person receiving coaching, and for others it’s the organisation. When I entered the world of Executive Coaching in 2000 I was firmly of the view that the ‘client’ was the person […]
Continue readingIt’s hard to admit you need coaching and yet we all do… But it’s tough to know what kind of coaching we need. Take the premiership for example. Do footballers really need better ball skills or would their training time perhaps have been better spent learning about fidelity and that there are higher paths in life […]
Continue readingExecutive Coach – Only dead fish go with the flow Having spent the last 14 years as an Executive Coach working in some of the biggest brands in the world, it is exciting to be the co-founder of an innovative new service for corporate clients and elite executive coaches. In the last few years I have become […]
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