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Posted on November 5, 2025November 6, 2025 by angusmcleod — Leave a comment

New Senior Executive Failures

Reduce 35-47% Attrition

Losing new SVP and c-suite appointees, within months of starting their new jobs, is a common and continuing problem globally. The costs, inconvenience, work-culture impacts and embarrassment of having to dismiss them go beyond the direct financial costs.

It’s understood within leading HR and recruitment, that 1-2-1 coaching of these new senior staff can get them up and running faster. The right coach will help them be more flexible in their approach and quicker to gain followship, especially with hesitant staff and resistant work-cultures.

Here I offer tips for HR/Recruitment to make a winning case for external coaching[i] that is success-focused and does not display weakness of the HR/Recruitment function. Also, here are tips for engaging the best coaches; those who will deliver results leveraging very different individual needs, seamlessly.

Posted on January 24, 2025November 6, 2025 by angusmcleod — Leave a comment

Senior Meeting Efficacy

Introduction

How do you significantly improve the efficacy of a senior management team’s meetings?

Certain practical steps will create engagement, co-trust, increased creativity and more broadly-resourced solutions. Let’s start with the values that drive change, and how to apply those values.

Values Driving Change – The Big Ticket Answers

Values are worthless without application.
Values will not drive change without clarity in terms of actual behaviors and performance. Ideally, behaviors and performance are measured and benchmarked.
You cannot see or measure a value – but, you can spot and measure a behavior or performance! So we must look to behavior and performance measures to create a difference. To start with, let’s define some values and then show how to apply them.

Posted on February 6, 2017July 5, 2023 by angusmcleod

Listening Leadership

Introduction

Exquisite Listening is at the heart of facilitating high performance in others. Listening is a key quality of leaders who mark themselves apart from managers who may dominate by directing.

When we listen well, we learn more about a person, about both their competences (practical and thinking styles) and about their motivations and de-motivations. We also learn how to influence them more effectively. Our influencing can then both inspire them to achieve at new levels but also to achieve with wellbeing, even when the demands we make, are over sustained periods.

A number of factors get in the way – awareness of these factors is a good place to start, so that strengths can be acknowledged and so gaps can be self-managed. The pathway to producing greater personal performance and satisfaction is then on track.

What gets in the way?

Continue reading Listening Leadership

Posted on June 30, 2015January 11, 2025 by angusmcleod — Leave a comment

Wellbeing at Work

Well-Being & Healthy Thinking

A healthy ‘mindset’ assists in well-being. This is not just about how happy we feel right now, but also, how empowered we are to achieve our aims.

But, what is a mindset? At least three things are important, these are: values, beliefs and our sense of identity. Continue reading Wellbeing at Work

Posted on April 30, 2015July 5, 2023 by angusmcleod

Leader vs Coaching Skills

Leader Skills/Traits Inventory

Research with many hundreds of European senior executives [1] showed the following skills/traits that were regarded as ideal in exceptional leaders: Continue reading Leader vs Coaching Skills

Posted on April 20, 2015April 30, 2015 by angusmcleod

Leader Qualities: Supportive of Individuals

Research shows there are 11 key Leader Qualities with one having a sub-set of 8 characteristics. Of the 19 Leader Qualities, 7 of them are ‘Trust Factors’. These are listed again below, together with a fuller description for Trust Factor: Supportive of People. Continue reading Leader Qualities: Supportive of Individuals

Posted on March 24, 2015March 25, 2015 by angusmcleod

Leader Qualities: Interested in Individuals

Research shows there are 11 key Leader Qualities with one having a sub-set of 8 characteristics. Of the 19 Leader Qualities, 7 of them are ‘Trust Factors’. These are listed again below, together with a fuller description for Trust Factor: Interested in Colleagues. Continue reading Leader Qualities: Interested in Individuals

Posted on January 29, 2015January 13, 2025 by angusmcleod

Leader Qualities: Authentic

Posted on January 15, 2015January 15, 2015 by angusmcleod

Leader Quality: Walks the Talk

Research shows there are 11 key Leader Qualities with one having a sub-set of 8 characteristics. Of the 19 Leader Qualities, 7 of them are ‘Trust Factors’. These are listed again below, together with a fuller description for Trust Factor: Walks the Talk. Continue reading Leader Quality: Walks the Talk

Posted on January 7, 2015January 7, 2015 by angusmcleod

Leaders: Learning from the Holiday

Did you notice that more people were friendly, approachable and engaged in conversation over the Christmas Holiday period? What happens in these first few days back at work will determine our effectivness for the whole year. Let’s learn from the holiday spirit now? Continue reading Leaders: Learning from the Holiday