An illness does make you think! Having been very sick and diagnosed with half a dozen or so nasty things it was some relief to know that I had a raging appendix and my immune system had kicked in. Six weeks later I had it lifted out and then some recouperation overseas.

I realized that with work, I had been neglecting friends so have been making trips, connecting and taking more time out. This is very much the outcome that my coachees get without having to be ill – now that is the better way to get sensible about a balanced life-style!

It shows again how we do not notice our own patterns and it takes an observer or coach to ask the right the question (or offer the right feedback) to get one back on track. Otherwise we’d fix ourselves, right?

Why is Managing in a Coaching Style so impactful? How does a strategic move to managing in a coaching style lead to a culture change and to the ‘Coaching Organisation’? What strategic input is needed to facilitate this culture change by management? These questions and others are addressed in the complete series of volumes!

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Angus McLeod Associates have extended their partnership arrangements with the National Skills Academy for Manufacturing for a further term. The platform of shared resources are targeted at UK manufacturing industry with coaching (Our certificated AMA coaching team) and ‘coaching skills for managers’ at the heart of the change strategy for management and business improvement. Angus McLeod and colleagues will be participating shortly in a series of educational webinars (along with other official provider-partners to NSA-M) in order to create focus within UK industries to leading-edge interventions for improving and sustaining business efficacy. This is very much a partnership arrangement, harnessing talent to offer the best possible solutions. AMA continue to supply the  ‘AMA Coaching Team’ via 1-2-1 and ‘Day Coach’ schemes. AMA also provide training to both ILM and CMI national levels with courses at levels 3 and 5.

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Managing in a Coaching Style

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Angus McLeod was honoured with a Visiting Professorship by Birmingham City University in March, 2010. This follows his connection with the Business School including a role as External Supervisor for research. Prof. McLeod says:

“Buyers of  services called coaching need to be able to differentiate between effective and ineffective providers. We aim to bring the rigour of academic process via applied research to bear on coaching efficacy in typical settings”.

The appointment marks a deliberate move by the Business School to do more applied research and to highlight coaching and leadership as key areas for further work. There will be scope for collaboration with both coaching providers and corporations.

Somehow I need to differentiate myself from the realities of the culture in which I spend much of my time – this to avoid ‘depression’, ‘recession’ and ‘bankrupcy’! For that is where our nation has come to. It raises questions about personal awareness and where this should be placed? There are many who, for reasons that may include the desire to avoid psychological despondency, avoid the news and try to stay positive. This is understandable. Others are so ‘involved’ and affected that they are pulled down, reduced in effectiveness and their ‘wellbeing’ impaired. So for many then, there must be plenty of ‘managing states’ in between from which to choose?

I generally prefer to focus on what I can do, rather than on what I cannot influence and change. Until that is, politics and the Labour Government’s mismanagement force their way into consciousness. At this time, every day brings more appalling news: cheating MPs, public money wasted by bad management, wrecking of pensions and the value of the pound, the printing of bank-notes without the assets to back the currency (creating obvious inflation) and the lowering of the value of the pound, negative effects of Government inititiates, spin/lies protected by swords of truth made of sand and guided by moral compasses made of unmagnetic lead. What a dreadful epoch we are living in! My balance is somewhere between the two extremes and wondering, other than by voting, what other influence I might have?

So, to the focus away from the daily array of crap disemminated by our morally-currupt leaders!

In an earlier blog, I wrote that we would be adding to our video library and this is now a major project. Over fifty videos have now been loaded onto the new wesite with many of them free-to-view. We have also added a member area and the potential to add comments, tweet and to buy streaming video to view and review over an 8 week period. All the video to date features me, but upcoming will be others in the team who will contribute to our free resource for managers and coaches wanting short learning opportunities through this medium. We are also uploading three free-to-view coaching masterclass ’sampler’ videos. These feature some of the coaching and debriefing that takes place after the coaching session. In each case we are offereing cheap access to the full-feature video, typically an hour and at super-low prices!

I have ten papers coming out in South Africa’s leading HR journals this year and already three, I think, in the quality, Training Journal, plus a chapter in Prof. David Megginson’s excellent new book, ‘Virtual Mentor, Virtual Coach’ in which I offer some learning from our experience of Ask Max, the world-leading e-mentoring product. There will be others. The book, ‘Performance Coaching Toolkit’ (McGraw-Hill) comes out in mid May 2010 and is already featured on Amazon. Yes, the focus on what we can do, rather than too much on the woes of this nation can be productive, and I for one feel much better for that. Amen!