Personal development: Who’s mentoring your mentors?

For mentoring to be successful, your company’s mentors need to be aligned with your business goals. Find out more.
Why your leadership development programme must include coaching

Leaders need coaching now more than ever to adapt in the face of unrelenting change.
Why managers are failing to coach teams

Research from Huthwaite International shows ineffective coaching practices dominate among managers and their teams. How can we tackle this?
Today’s managers need to embrace a coaching mindset, not top-down leadership

Upskilling your managers and encouraging them to foster a coaching mindset will transform your organisation in ways you never thought possible.
Team coaching: How to optimise your teams for the new world of work

As businesses deal with ever more complexity and uncertainty, team literacy and effective collaboration will become essential to business success.
The role of mentoring in boosting belonging

The UK has a belonging crisis but L&D can help with an effective mentoring strategy
How Operational Coaching™ can save L&D

Could this be the skill set that saves L&D?
Why coaching without contracts is a con trick

Professional, competent coaches use contracts. If they don’t, it’s a con trick.
Why L&D should focus more on employee attributes and less on skills

In disrupted times, the focus should be more on attributes rather than skills
Why Feedback is the Greatest Gift you can Give

Amongst the very kind and generous feedback I received in response to last week’s blog was this from the wonderful Lottie Skuthe-Cook of Grey Panther Management: “You really do have such an eloquence with words, it’s amazing. I love reading your stuff from a pure language point of view AND equally much from a content […]
Coaching: how to nurture high performing teams and individuals

Coaching requires the right conditions as well as the right mindset to take effect.
Coaching: three powerful questions to challenge your learners

Leaders who coach have a powerful advantage of those that don’t at the moment – but successful coaching comes down to asking the right questions.
Enabling a new era of ‘in the moment’ coaching

Employee retention in the post-pandemic age requires a different approach to coaching. Is your organisation ready?
Social learning: how L&D can help upskill colleagues to be coaches for their teams

Eight ways to turn your employees into performance coaches to enable peer-to-peer learning.
Mentoring in the hybrid world of work

If ever there was a time for mentoring support, this is it.
Mentoring the C-suite: filling the gaps left by non-executive directors

Better support is needed for those at the top of organisations.
Personal development: why today’s young leaders need individual coaching and mentoring

Why individual coaching is needed in today’s complex professional environment.
If you’ve never trained before, start with coaching

The best way to introduce a learning culture into an organisation that hasn’t had one previously is to begin with coaching.
A business case for coaching: how to measure the effectiveness of coaching interventions

How coaching can offer measurable performance improvements.
Effective coaching is a matter of perspective

Nobody plays the villain in their own story.