You are a senior manager in your organisation (or hope to be) and you have decided to engage the services of an executive coach to help with your personal development, manage a transition or help prepare you for that all important promotion opportunity. Congratulations! Partnering with the right executive coach can be a powerful opportunity…
Recently I had the pleasure of facilitating a series of workshops with a group of experienced HR leaders to support them with a nascent Organisation Design project. Roffey Park’s approach to learning is more experiential and dialogue based than theoretical, so conversations often turn to the realities of putting new skills in to practise. But…
Do you trust your team? Remember a moment when you were working in a team and could express yourself comfortably, without boundaries, assumptions or, fear? Were you able to express your best ideas? Did you feel like creativity was bursting through your body and mind? That could be a momentum of psychological safety built in…
Ask most people if they think creativity is a good thing in their organisation and you’re likely to get a funny look. Of course creativity is a good thing. Who could possibly object to creativity? Having a creative bent myself I also think that it is a very good thing. We need space for critical…
Delegation is one of the questions that comes up a lot on management and leadership programmes. There seems to be a whole myriad of things that get in the way of delegating, from a lack of time to develop the team to the worry that, if something that is delegated goes wrong, it is the…
In an ever more multi polar world our concepts of culture are evolving. In progress now is a shift, away from pre-eminently western ways of understanding the world towards worldviews that include diverse eastern and southern perspectives. In this world, the ability to ‘read’, see and sense these varied perspectives and respond to them, and…
Our first class executive coaching and team coaching service is designed to enable individuals and teams to unlock their potential and improve outcomes for themselves and their organisations. Delivered face to face, online or by telephone. Coaching is an active solution right now, right here. Coaching will support you to manage immediate challenges and explore…
I am of that generation (just) that assumed they’d have fairly simple career path. A directionless school career followed by a less than vocational degree, a few short-term jobs and a slew of post-graduate degrees finally landed me in a university lectureship. And that was going to be it, as I thought, until retirement. A…
It’s that time of year again when we are bombarded by adverts on TV and Social Media platforms – “New Year, New You!” “Become the person you’ve always wanted to be!” “This is your year!”. All in an attempt to challenge us to make New Year resolutions. The concept of January resolutions is not new. …
The global pandemic has tested leadership skills across the world like never before. It’s impacted every aspect of our lives. It’s scary, uncertain and exhausting. Organisations are grappling with how to adapt, transform and innovate and leaders are faced with tough decisions. The temptation for leaders is to adopt an authoritative leadership style to suck…
Leadership is a tough gig. Taking up a leadership position is one of the toughest roles we can choose but many of us enter into it without giving much thought to whether we truly want or understand all that comes with it. For some of us, leading comes naturally. For most, however, it takes significant…
‘The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented’, wrote Dennis Gabor, a Physics Nobel Prize Winner, in 1963. Here we are in December 2020, at the end of the calendar year Some may think ‘thank goodness!’, however the uncertainty of this year may well continue into 2021. During the first lockdown in 2020,…
