Summer has come to an end, and with it, the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics have drawn to a close. This season of sport has been marked by an extraordinary showcase of performance and dedication. The Olympics and Paralympics represent the pinnacle of an athlete’s career, and for many, it is the culmination of a…
By James Choles and George Barnes. When thinking about coaching and delegation skills, I immediately think about how they can be used to manage priorities, which in turn can create growth opportunities. In fact, the ability to positively coach and delegate complement one another. Long gone are the days when leaders and managers had all…
Books, or forms of books, have existed since 4000 BC and to this day remain as important as ever. Despite recent accelerations in technology, books remain the staple of most learning forms, especially research, knowledge gathering and storytelling. The learning and development space is where it is today thanks to the extensive amount of research…
As most of us are probably aware, the England men’s national football team gracefully bowed out of the 2022 World Cup last week. As a passionate football fan, I was upset. Not many times have I been able to say that an England team were better than the French on the night, but it was…
I challenge you to sit in silence for a couple of minutes, just two or three minutes will do. Pay attention to the sounds you are hearing, the sensations present in your body, the connection of your body to wherever you are sitting, your breath coming in and out. What do you notice? And what…
… and you’ll stumble upon creativity, lasting social bonds and positive emotions Do you remember when you were a small kid, how you engaged with other kids through play? It still fascinates me today, when I observe how easily kids embrace completely new games and playing partners, assigning each other made-up roles and going from…
It’s hard to be a leader in the best of times, but the Covid-19 pandemic crisis has suddenly and dramatically upended the working world as we know it, creating unanticipated business and leadership challenges that were unthinkable 18 months ago. Leaders must now dig deep into their skill sets to meet the challenges of a…
Let me start by taking a step back to first clarify the relationship between truth and power. I remember reading an article which compared the effect black holes have in distorting space-time, with the effect power has on distorting reality: the closer you are to them, the bigger the distortion gets. As the historian and…
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…
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The importance of coaching skills in the workplace Most managers will say that the most valuable assets their organisation has are its people. And they will genuinely mean it. And yet too many organisations fail to make coaching and mentoring for managers and by managers a priority. This means. Quite often a coaching programme for…
A couple of years ago I became fascinated with fairy tales and the impact they had on my childhood. Acting on my curiosity I came across Enchantment by psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim. A concentration camp survivor, Bettelheim dedicated his life to helping traumatised children, many of whom were survivors of the holocaust. Through this work he saw a…
