Are we divided by a common language? I’ve been reviewing 360-degree feedback with senior leaders this week as a starting point to their coaching programmes. And it made me realise that, while behavioural frameworks are valuable tools, they’re not enough to set performance expectations. And then this made me think about what can go wrong when
As a leader in an organisation, you’re in the difficult position of having to influence in many directions. Of course, you need to know how to influence the people you manage but you also need to influence your peers, your bosses, clients and others outside the organisation. Your effectiveness at influencing others depends on the
Earlier this year I presented at the Association for Coaching Conference. The theme of the conference was “Time to Develop” and my session was about the role of coaching and mentoring in talent management strategy. After a preamble looking at the talent management challenges faced by organisations and why talent management is important, I went
A few weeks ago I talked about one of my clients, a growing global organisation who needed to grow the management team with the organisation. One of their biggest challenges was retaining talented employees. Paul was one of the senior people I was asked to work with. For a fast-growing organisation, Client Services is a
Developing a leadership pipeline is a challenge for most organisations. You need to think through how to develop your high-potential employees. Perhaps this post can help. An insight from my own experience Let me start by sharing some of my own experience. You may be surprised to hear that I consider myself fortunate that I
One of the things that increasingly frustrates me is how development professionals have come to make a distinction between coaching someone to develop their leadership skills and coaching someone to manage their career. Typically, we use the term Leadership Coaching to describe a deliberate and personalised process to promote the leadership growth of an individual and
What’s your number one development strategy? In my experience, anyone named on a succession plan or identified as part of a talent pool benefits hugely from coaching. In my last post, The First Step You Should Take After Completing the Talent Review, I shared two reasons why coaching is the first talent development strategy you
As I mentioned in my last blog post, A Succession Plan isn’t the same as planning for succession. And a Talent Review isn’t enough to retain and develop your future leaders. They are simply the starting point. So, what is the first step you should take once you’ve completed the talent review? Well, step one is
One of the challenges I see often in organisations is that Talent Management focuses heavily on identifying who should be on the succession plan and who is considered a leader of the future. And that’s where it stops. Once the names are slotted into the relevant grids and boxes, nothing happens until the following year when the
I am a huge believer in the power of networking. And I’m fortunate to be part of a great network of highly skilled and talented professionals. One of the formal networks that I am part of is Interimity. Interimity is an exclusive, invitation-only community of HR consultants, coaches and interims. Find out more here. There has been
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