The GROW model is often used in coaching, to help your coachee clarify their Goal, examine their Reality, create their Options and decide what they Will do (their Way Forward). You can use this approach as a line manager with your team too. It’s simple but it works. We used GROW when developing a coaching style of leadership at…
Have you watched the film “Out Of Africa”? The one with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford? It came out in 1985 and I remember going to the cinema to watch it with my husband. The film looks very dated now. At the time though, it caught my imagination of Africa as an amazing place to be. The film “Out Of…
I used to think that authenticity was static and a noun. I can now see that it is a verb, and a future focussed, useful one too. In the past I have often been described as authentic, as someone with integrity. Whilst this sounded good, I didn’t really know what people meant by saying this to me, nor did I…
Often at the start of a Leadership Programme, I ask participants to take a look at their learning styles. I ask everyone to read the four descriptions, to choose the style that feels most like them; Activist, Reflector, Theorist or Pragmatist. The images often produce a wry smile! Then I ask them to find the people in the group most…
I suggest that you start with how you feel! As we progress our careers many of us find ourselves needing to be more strategic. Our new Job Description can demand this of us, and yet, what does it mean? Oxford Languages defines strategic as “relating to the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of achieving…
Are you frustrated that your career progression is slower than your ideal? Or that your current role has gone stale and is just not as exciting as you hoped? Does this make you wonder what to do next? Have well meaning friends and colleagues encouraged you to look at your strengths and weaknesses, to do a SWOT? I’m going to…