When people think about career development, they more often than not think about changing organisation. And sometimes that’s the right thing to do. But job-hunting is tough and, moving to a new company is no guarantee of satisfaction. The grass may or may not be greener. So,it makes a lot of sense to develop your career
It’s time to accelerate leadership development in organisations. My experience tells me that people no longer have the time or inclination for long drawn-out leadership development programmes and time spent away from the office on courses. With business changing daily you can’t afford for your best people to be away from the business for extended
Solutions Focus (SF) is an exciting and complete approach to change. It developed from the brilliantly simple ‘brief therapy’ work of Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg. It is now used by major businesses, coaches and consultants as their chosen approach to deliver respectful and lasting change quickly. Mark McKergow & Paul Z. Jackson
In my last blog post “Case Study: How a Coaching Style of Leadership Can Help Employees Take Ownership & Responsibility”, I described a Solutions Focus (SF) Coaching for Leaders Programme I am delivering that is helping employees take ownership and responsibility. The case study featured in a presentation at the Coaching and at Work Conference:
Earlier this year, Coaching at Work Magazine featured a programme I am working on as a case study in an article they called “The Ripple Effect”. If you are a subscriber, you can read the full article here. Or read on to learn more. In 2008, Mark McKergow, the Director of sfwork, invited me to
Why Every Leader Should Get a Mentor Last week I attended a great seminar featuring senior leaders talking about how they had managed their careers. Every leader talked about the important role that mentors had played. Having recently helped launch the Professional Mentoring programme for CIPD North-East of England I was delighted to hear that and
I’ve recently been helping the CIPD North East of England Branch launch their professional mentoring programme. Having run some mentoring skills workshops for the mentors, we realized that we also needed to give some guidance to mentees because research has shown that the mentoring relationships that succeed are the ones where both the mentor and
This weekend, in Britain, and all over the world, we are celebrating the Diamond Jubilee in recognition of Queen Elizabeth II having been on the throne for 60 years. Whatever you think of the monarchy, most would agree that the Queen is someone to be admired. She was only 25 when she took on the
It goes without saying that the number one thing you need to do to manage your career within in an organisation is to work hard and do a really good job, exceeding expectations wherever possible. But that in itself is not enough to actually take control of your career and achieve your aspirations. Take Control
The greatest fear of anyone responsible for a training budget is that they will invest a significant amount in a development programme for limited or no benefit. As I said in an earlier post, leadership is about what people say and do and how that behaviour effectively influences the behaviour of others. So, if a
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