What is coaching in one sentence? Why have organisations wanted coaching culture change since 2004? Simply, how is it done? All this and more in under four minutes! Watch the video. Continue reading Coaching Culture
Category: Manager aids
Women and Success
Nothing Succeeds Like Success!
“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded”. Continue reading Women and Success
Women: Distress from Stress
Taking the Distress out of Stress
At the moment I am dealing with an excessively large workload and so it seemed like a good time to write about stress!
When life has a good rhythm of work, time for family and friends, and time for oneself, then it is easy to write safe platitudes about how stressed people should go about de-stressing themselves. As a reminder of how easy it is to make up advice, Continue reading Women: Distress from Stress
Women at Work #2
Women, men and status at work #2
Note: You will need to refer back to #1 in the second part of this paper!
I worked as a professional role-player/improvising-actor taking improvisation-scenarios into organizations. One way we worked was to prepare in advance by creating characters and then improvise a scene that was significant for that audience. We stopped at a moment of high drama and then stayed in role in dialogue with the audience. From the helpful suggestions that came up in the discussion, we would wind back and replay the scene, now with the characters equipped with new perspectives and positive ways to act. Continue reading Women at Work #2
Women at Work #1
Women, Men and Status at Work, Part 1
Discover the Secrets Most Business Women Don’t Know About!
How to Increase Credibility, Status and Success, Working With Men!
When I first moved to New Zealand many years ago with my NZ-partner, we both looked in the paper for jobs to pay the rent, while we got ourselves settled. Continue reading Women at Work #1
NLP and Coaching
How does Coaching relate to the four pillars of Neuro-linguistic Programming?
When we look at the four pillars of NLP proposed by McDermott (2006; Rapport, Flexibility, Outcome Thinking & Sensory Acuity), we find interesting learning that maps directly to best-practice in modern coaching. Continue reading NLP and Coaching
New Leadership Kindle Book
Self-coaching Leadership – from Manager to Leader
New Kindle book launched from John Wiley and authored by Angus McLeod.
This 5/5 star reviewed book is a practical treasure of tips for the modern manager wanting to up-their-game. Continue reading New Leadership Kindle Book
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Working with Successful Executive in Australasia.
Coaching Papers Free
Announcing that about 30 of Angus McLeod’s coaching papers are now downloadable from this site including one written with Olympian, James Cracknell. If you want to know more about Emotional Intelligence, the use of Reflective-Silence, Mindsets or developing coaching in organisations, here is your resource. And there is much more! Take a look now.
Remember too that we have a lot of free video-shorts available for both coaches and managers – see ‘Coach Smarter‘ and ‘Manage Smarter‘ (links also at the top of the page).
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Which Coach?
How Good is your Coach? How do You Know? If you have video of them working, or you can watch them, you will shortly know for certain; watch the video! Continue reading Which Coach?