Category: Leadership
Reflections on leadership, decision-making, relationships, change and the realities of leading others.
Leadership
Coachable Moments…
Not every conversation needs to become a coaching conversation. I probably ought to start there, because once people become interested in coaching — particularly leaders who are learning to use coaching skills — there can be an understandable temptation to coach absolutely everything. Someone asks a relatively straightforward question and suddenly they’re being invited to […]
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Leadership
Coaching. It’s not exactly what you think…
A photograph of me recently prompted an interesting question: What exactly is coaching? I’m in a forest, working with a group of coaches. No training room and certainly none of the imagery we tend to associate with coaching: two people sitting opposite each other in carefully positioned chairs, one leaning forward attentively while the other apparently […]
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Leadership
Thinking Out Loud
16 marathons in 16 weeks…
In the sixteen weeks leading up to the London Marathon, I ran roughly 42 kilometres a week. I hadn’t really thought about it in those terms while I was training; there were long runs, short runs, recovery runs, faster runs and plenty of runs that didn’t particularly resemble whatever was written in the training plan. […]
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Leadership
When leadership is shared, what happens between you matters
We still have a remarkably persistent image of leadership as something exercised by one person. There is the CEO, the director, the head of department, the team leader. One role, one name, one person ultimately responsible. Even the language we use tends to reinforce the idea that leadership eventually arrives at the top of a […]
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Leadership
You don’t have to start as you mean to go on
There’s something rather seductive about a fresh start. A new year, a new job, a new role, a Monday morning, even tomorrow if today has already gone slightly off the rails. We seem to like moments that give us permission to draw a line underneath what came before and announce that from now on, things will […]
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