Live online facilitation, coaching and training
Earlier this week I shared the following on LinkedIn and it has had 2k visits. On reflection I realised that not everyone who reads my blog is [...]
Areas of influence
I am always curious about what influences others in how they work, whether they be individual contributors, leaders or external coaches, facilitators and consultants. I spent some [...]
Trust Guidebook – Resource from Julian Stodd
Julian Stodd is one of the most prolific writers I know. he regularly blogs about leadership and learning and also creates excellent resources. Today he released "The [...]
Decision making matrix – Benefits, Costs, Mitigations
Andy de Vale shared THIS resource on LinkedIn. Worth a read for facilitators and team coaches looking to help teams reach better quality decisions. This post is a [...]
Bursty team communication
THIS research is an interesting thing that I found on virtual team communication. It looks at how "bursty" communication is more effective than constant communication, WEB CUTTING [...]
Duukos – A virtual or displaced team activity
Duukos is a graphical variant of a Sudoku activity (the hint is in the name), Developed in 2008 to support a virtual team development programme. Feel free [...]
Canvas collection I – A list of visual templates
I have been using in my coaching, facilitation and training work,the very well known Business Model Canvas from the best selling book Business Model Generation, pretty much since [...]
EQ-i 2.0 and EQ-i 360 Certified
I had not written this up and so looping back to it. I recently got certified by High Performing Systems on the EQ-i 2.0 / EQ-i 360 [...]
ABCDE Model – Improving Emotional Intelligence
This week I have been working all week on delivering EQ-i feedback to leaders in a client organisation. One of the considerations of emotional intelligence is getting [...]
Comfort Zone – not 303
This is the fifth in a series of articles around key concepts that have impacted me personally and professionally over the course of my career. I cam [...]
Thinking Tools – DATT – not 303
This is the third of ten blog articles around concepts that have had a significant on me as a manager, leaders, coach and facilitator. When considering to [...]
Stop Challenge Choose – not 303
This is the second of ten blog articles around concepts that have had a significant on me as a manager, leaders, coach and facilitator. “Stop, Challenge and [...]
Video: Coaching in organisations
Not a long post really, just a short video from the International Coach Federation who have certified me as a Professional Certified Coach around coaching in organisations. [...]
Reducing negative reactions to feedback – dead
In my conversations around why people do not give performance improving feedback the number one reason is the fear or uncertainty of how to deal with negative [...]
Feedback to teams – 3 Tools – dead
I have written quite a lot about about one on one feedback recently but not taken the time to consider team feedback. As I was recently reading [...]
Top 5 feedback excuses and solutions – dead
I have been focusing over the last month on developing a series of articles around giving and receiving feedback. As I was developing these I was reflecting [...]
Feedback sandwich – 5 reasons not to make – dead
The feedback sandwich has been used time and time again as a method for providing effective feedback. In my experience, and talking with hundreds of leadership training [...]
Boost leadership feedback – dead
Following up on the previous post from last week around the AID feedback model, I thought I would share another acronym for feedback that was shared with [...]
Effective feedback – AID model – dead
Having been working as a leader and training leaders for twenty years, I have always been on the lookout for a solid concept for feedback. Until now [...]
ChangeWorks ChangeGrid Certified – dead
Yesterday (Wednesday 3rd July 2013) I completed my ChangeWorks ChangeGrid Certification. What is ChangeWorks®? ChangeWorks is a system that applies the principles, insights, tools and techniques of [...]