Resilience is sought after and as single term for a multifactoral set of traits, understanding the basics can be hard. In a 4 minute video, I propose one major component of individual resilience and a methodology for its increase over time. Factor that up for organisations and you have a resilient culture. Find out how! Continue reading News: Resilience
Bad Behaviors at Work
Tough Talking for Bad Behaviour
I continue to hear executives complaining about lack of professional behaviours in colleagues at all levels. The latest complaint concerns a Director of a regional business, part of an international conglomerate. This person is thought to be disgruntled due to his CEO’s direction and interference in his role and priorities, but staff only see the unprofessional results of whatever is going on in his immature head: the Director misses, delays and drops meetings including staff annual reviews with little or no notice; leaves meetings early; sends one-word emails to colleagues, typically ‘no’; is obstructive, unhelpful and careless towards staff including changing their jobs without consultation. What to do… Continue reading Bad Behaviors at Work
US Radio Spot
Angus gives ‘Freedom’ interview
‘Let’s Get Real Radio’ featured Angus McLeod in their ‘freedom’ spot at 1pm Central time on Monday 20th December where he answered questions from the presenters on his career, books and of course, coaching! Hear the Radio show.
“You really touched my heart and allowed my soul to sing its heart song” Cathy Matarazzo, show host.
Leadership
In this short video, Angus gives a take on leadership. Some people have asked whether leadership is a gift or whether it can be learned. The answer, as Richard Denny says, is both. Richard also recommended Angus’ book, ‘Self-coaching Leadership’ (John Wiley & Sons) at the same time. So, what is leadership? How can you be better at it? Continue reading Leadership
McLeod Management Model
How not to over- or under-manage and therefore demoralize your staff. Continue reading McLeod Management Model
G.R.O.W. Model
The GROW model is a simple model, it is particulary helpful for novice managers and coaches who want a thumbnail check on where there are in the session. Erroneously, the model is often attributed to our dear friend, now passed, Sir John Whitmore, who told me as a face-to-face meeting that he had not invented the model.
GROW stands for Goal, Reality check, Options & Will, Where, When, What, Who (and how) Continue reading G.R.O.W. Model
Reflective Language
Language that reflects back the coachee’s own words is a win-win formula for success. This is called Reflective Language. The coach does not use up mental activity in interpreting and the coachee does not have to detach from the ‘experience’ they may be having in order to worry about the meaning of the words (interpretation of semantics) the coach is using. Reflective Language is very standard and used gracefully by all the best coaches I know. Coachees do not notice Reflective Language, but observers do notice! Continue reading Reflective Language
Rapid Culture Change
Can corporates achieve rapid behavioural change in their teams? They can now! With coachinig skills as part of a managing style. How do we know? Because we have been doing it since 2004 in sectors including healthcare (NHS TRUST) and Government. And there are published research results (The Training Journal) to prove it works! Watch this short video now.
How to Be Happy
Last evening I had one of those wonderful warm glow feelings when all seems to be just right. These things can still surprise but we can also re-programme ourselves to be more susceptible to happiness. The old adage coined by Kahlil Gibran about the cup being half empty or half-full comes to mind. Can’t we just chose to be half-full? Continue reading How to Be Happy
Executive Education
What is Executive Education and how can it be stimulated? In this video, get some thinking behind Executive Education and key factors in making it effective. Continue reading Executive Education