Category: Leadership Development

planning for succession

Why A Succession Plan is not the same as Planning for Succession

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

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great leaders

How to develop great leaders in an organisation [Success Story]

Do you have great leaders in your organisation?  Are they delivering the results you want?  If there is room for improvement, you’re not alone.  That was the situation for one of our clients too. The client, a community health care organisation, was looking to turn around the performance of the organisation and overcome the following

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coaching leadership style

How to Develop a Coaching Leadership Style

Is there one leadership style that is better than others?  I don’t believe so.  The most important thing is that leaders are versatile and adapt their leadership style to the needs of the situation.  That was the challenge one of our clients asked for our help with.Our client was one of the UK’s largest mental

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performance management

Performance Management: How to Create a Performance Culture

Performance management is sometimes seen as a pejorative term.  But it shouldn’t be.  Performance management is the responsibility of every individual in an organisation.  You want everyone to be delivering the results needed for the organisation to achieve its vision.  You want a performance culture that will support that. That was certainly the desire of

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management skills

How to Develop Management Skills

Management skills are critical for all organisations.  But how do you develop them?  This post describes my experience of developing management skills for a technology start up. Avanade was a global start-up formed as a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft.  The core purpose of the company was to provide business technology solutions and managed

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future leaders

Future Leaders: Developing Graduates into Managers

Are you interested in developing future leaders. in your organisation?  Then maybe you’ll be interested in my experience of developing future leaders for the Business Process Management (BPM) division of Accenture UK The BPM division was responsible for providing outsourced IT services to a wide range of clients from BP in Aberdeen to the Stock

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Stop Selling and Start Helping

As a profession, HR spends a fair time agonising over how to raise our profile as a strategic partner and add value to the business. The accepted wisdom is that we need to “sell the benefit” of HR and the initiatives designed to get the best out of people.  But I am inclined to disagree. 

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5 Ways to Accelerate Leadership Development

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

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Case Study: Creating a Coaching Culture by Stealth

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: 

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Leadership Development Needs to be Real to be Effective

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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