By Tester1
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” Rumi Engaging in meaningful, self-focused personal change is at the heart of any kind of serious personal and professional development. It might be a change in your habits, a change in your behaviours or a […]
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This is a continually updated page containing details of some of the best and most relevant research into coaching and other areas of personal and professional development, leadership and behavioural change. Where a pdf of the relevant article is freely available online I have linked to that pdf. But be aware that these links can […]
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By Tester1
Leadership emerges from the interactions between people and good leadership is exemplified by exchanges that leave all parties feeling that they have been understood and their interests accounted for. Good leadership is therefore relational not transactional. And at the heart of this kind of leadership is perspective taking capacity – the ability to understand the […]
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As a leader and coach concerned with helping people advance their personal and professional development, believe me, I am steeped in positive psychology and the benefits of positive thinking. I have studied Masters level courses in positive organisational coaching, applied positive psychology and the psychology of peak performance. I have studied the evidence base for […]
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In business, as in most aspects of life, it’s your mental game that has the most impact on how far you can go. If you’re trying to lead in business and you struggle to manage the complexities, uncertainties, stresses and pressures that you confront on a daily basis, both you and your teams are likely […]
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This is the first of a regular series of curated content pieces on Coaching.fm. This week, the focus is on confidence, in particular loss confidence on other threats to our self belief. The articles I’ve chosen cover a whole range of aspects of the topic: losing confidence, standing up to others, managing our self-talk, dealing […]
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Leading change is hard. But good change leaders are essential if any kind of change – organisational or otherwise – is going to succeed. In the context of organisational change, Kotter’s change model emphasises the need for leaders to: create the climate for change, create the conditions for change, and then implement change in a […]
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The video below (from Flixabout.com), details John Kotter’s change model. This is perhaps one of the best known models for organisational change. Kotter’s model aims to give organisations a road map to follow when they seek to bring about major change. The difficulty I have with the model is that, if applied rigidly, it is […]
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By Tester1
As a coach, I know the importance of listening skills and the value of deep and active listening in particular. I know the importance of suspending judgment and I know how critical it is to remove ones own’s biases, interests and concerns from coaching conversations. Yet despite all that knowledge, I know there are times […]
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Sometimes change just happens to us and sometime it is something we intentionally bring about. Intentional change can involve: altering our circumstances, such as deciding to changing jobs, relocate or end relationships, altering something internal to ourselves, such as the way we habitually think, or the way that we respond to events emotionally, or altering […]
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