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A coaching culture will transform your business. In a highly competitive market, great culture is not optional, it's essential. The problem is that it's difficult. In this guide, I'll share how you can start creating a coaching culture today.
The big ideas and best quotes from Belonging by Owen Eastwood. Learn the important role of storytelling to create a sense of belonging. Teams perform at their best when everyone feels like they belong.
Learn from the New Zealand All Blacks. How to develop mental skills in the workplace. I share lessons learned from Aaron Walsh, Chiefs Rugby. You'll learn the importance of mental skills in performance.
Learn how to lead in tough moments. Working on complex problems, in complex environments means that difficult conversations are inevitable. In fact, research has shown that encouraging the right conflict can lead to better product outcomes.
Judge a leader by their questions rather than by their answers. - Toby Sinclair (Inspired by Voltaire)Great leaders ask great questions.They ask these questions most of themselves, not only the people they lead.To become a coach-like leader, I have spent over 10,000hrs practising the art of asking questions.In doing so, I have asked many of these of myself.Here are 5 questions that have inspired how I lead:1. What’s the ONE Thing I can do, such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or
Learn the big ideas and best quotes from this bestseller. You'll learn the importance of body language and power-posing. Presence is the state of being able to comfortably express our thoughts. That’s it. It’s not a permanent mode of being – it comes and goes, moment to moment.
Learn the big ideas and best quotes from Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before. A highly practical book that provides tools to help you tackle the biggest challenges life brings you. Grief, low mood, lack of motivation, fear and self-doubt are all explored in this excellent book.
Learn the big ideas and best quotes from Relentless Solution Focus. Great successes are built on small victories. When a person learns to emphasize improvement over perfection, progress accelerates dramatically.
The big ideas and best quotes from Nancy Kline's Time to Think. Learn how to build a Thinking Environment.
Learn the big ideas and best quotes from this You Coach You book summary. Coaching is the skill of asking yourself questions to improve self-awareness and prompt positive action. Learn the tools and techniques to coach yourself.
Traditional leadership development has three major flaws.Firstly a focus on a “single” right way to lead. Referred to as “best practice”.Secondly, a belief that a knowledge gap is what explains the difference between the best and the rest.Thirdly, learning happens in the classroom. Pressure is minimised to make it a “fun” experience. Variability is removed so the program can be repeated consistently.The bigger assumption underpinning these flaws is that leadership development is a simple problem
Autocratic Leadership gets a bad reputation but in certain situations, it can get results. Learn through an example where this style can work best and when it might lead to negative results. The best leaders are flexible. They adopt leadership styles based upon the situation.