Honest Intentions is about asking yourself before a coaching session what your commitment is towards your coachee.
Honest Intentions is one of my Quick Coaching Tools. They are exactly what the title suggests. Short snippets of coaching tips, tools and ideas for you to use on a just-in-time basis. Use them as an update and to refresh your coaching practice and professionalism. You could call it coaching in a hurry!
Rapport is about matching and synchronising with your coachee to achieve the greatest level of understanding and success.
Rapport is one of my Quick Coaching Tools. They are exactly what the
title suggests. Short snippets of coaching tips, tools and ideas for you to use
on a just-in-time basis. Use them as an update and to refresh your coaching
practice and professionalism. You could call it coaching in a hurry!
How we work, where we work and when we work are all about to change. Are you ready for the revolution?
The last time I blogged, I introduced you to “The 100 Year Life” a fantastic book, introducing a brave new world of longevity. Its theme being, that today’s youth can expect to live beyond 100 years of age – the key word there being expect – which in turn means our current three stage model of education, work, retire, is outdated.
The aim of my last missive was to ask how this impacts on our current leaders and what they need to do in order to flex their style and fit this new world order, focusing on an increase in empathy, the introduction of “strategic altruism” and the application of “beginners mind” to their thinking – if you missed it here’s a link.
But what about those who find themselves at the beginning of this journey? Can you imagine being an 18 year old faced with the prospect of living for another 80+ years? How do you even begin to think about planning to prepare for that?
Trust starts to happen when you have achieved a congruence between your personal beliefs, values and leadership behaviours.
Trust is one of my Quick Coaching Tools. They are exactly what the title suggests. Short snippets of coaching tips, tools and ideas for you to use on a just-in-time basis. Use them as an update and to refresh your coaching practice and professionalism. You could call it coaching in a hurry!
Being present is about dancing in the moment and to be aware of what is happening right now and responding accordingly.
Being Present is one of my Quick Coaching Tools. They are exactly what the
title suggests. Short snippets of coaching tips, tools and ideas for you to use
on a just-in-time basis. Use them as an update and to refresh your coaching
practice and professionalism. You could call it coaching in a hurry!
Being curious is about getting Coachees to think outside the box, creatively and non-judgementally, and to be open to what emerges.
Being Curious is one of my Quick Coaching Tools. They are exactly what
the title suggests. Short snippets of coaching tips, tools and ideas for you to
use on a just-in-time basis. Use them as an update and to refresh your coaching
practice and professionalism. You could call it coaching in a hurry!
We’re all on a change journey, and that journey will call upon us to develop different things at different times. Your chance of success and avoiding chaos is greatly enhanced by the amount of time you spend on preparation.
I was listening to a podcast recently in which a prominent CHRO commented that “the world has changed, it’s chaotic and unruly and our leaders need to be able to operate effectively in chaos”. Surely we want change not chaos.
Now I don’t know about you but that’s not a sales pitch I’m warming to. I’d agree that things certainly seem to be heading that way; I’m not sure we’re enjoying it…is anyone getting a kick out of Brexit? Somebody else once told me “never hire anyone who tells you they’re good in a crisis – you’ll always be in one”.
And yet it seems to me that all we need to escape the chaos
is a little process, and some structure, to help us find our way out of the
darkness. What’s frustrating is how bad we are at doing just that. I work for an engineering business and we
love a process – we just love following them less!
In 2018 Despina Panayiotou Theodosiou was listed the 9th most influential women in shipping. Domingos Silva interviews her about her personal coaching journey.
I am publishing today with great amusement. One, because today we reach the 150th posts milestone and also because it is the first leadership journey I publish and from someone I really admire as a professional.
Despina and I met a couple of years ago when I was leading a project related to fleet monitoring. I was very impressed by her passion about the business, knowledge and also her leadership skills and gravitas very evident in every interaction we had. On a personal level, me being the father of a young lady (and I related this to my previous post – (Dreams I Dream for my Daughter. A Successful Business Woman). who aspires to be a business woman, Despina also became famous in my place because of her drive on topics related to Diversity and Inclusion and to empower women in shipping – historically a predominately male-dominated business. She’s someone who my daughter looks up to as role model.
I am glad women like Despina has taken such discussions and I can honestly see things changing in the world. This gives me peace of mind thinking that that when my lovely daughter enters in the labour market, she will be a professional measured, get paid and promoted based on her education, skills and most importantly, performance and professionalism, without gender being in any way a factor.
In Biblical terms, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse were Pestilence, Famine, War and Death. An American psychologist, Dr John Gottman, who researches divorce and its causation, identifies four new horse riders that he names Criticism, Defensiveness, Contempt and Stonewalling. The adverse impact of these behaviours apply in organisational leadership just as much as marital relationships.
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