If you are considering getting a coach you are probably wondering what you will gain. It can be difficult to understand the value of coaching if you have never done anything like it before.

Starting a business is a crazy, nerve-wracking, and exciting time. There is so much to do and often, in the beginning, all that responsibility is on your shoulders. I believe that having coaching during this time is critical to keep you on track and improve your chances of reaching your goals faster.

Leaders, listen up. You need more conflict in your teams! Yes more, not less. Or rather you need better conflict, not just conflict for the sake of it.

How progressive is your company when it comes to its policies and procedures? In the industrial revolution, the concept of clocking in and clocking out, closely monitoring work, and a 'Taylor'* management style of rewards and punishment was born.

I speak to lots of people about coaching and find there is quite a bit of confusion over what exactly coaching is. This isn't entirely surprising, coaching itself is a relatively new field and much of what people understand from the term coaching comes from sports where the use of the word is applied differently.

Have you thought about where your emotions come from? If you are like most people, this is probably not something you spend a lot of time thinking about. When we experience emotions, they just happen, they arise from somewhere within you depending on what is happening at that time.

This was intended to be one blog post but there was just so much good stuff! So here is part two of my personal takeaways and reflections from Tony Robbins, UPW 2019.

4 days, 12,000 people, 15 hours days, and one of the best motivational speakers/coaches around today. This is Tony Robbins, Unleash the Power Within.

Performance Management is changing. Organisations and HR teams are starting to recognise that some of the traditional ways of measuring and reviewing performance do not stack up in the current economic and cultural climate.

An internal customer is anyone in the organization who needs assistance or interaction from another to fulfill their job responsibilities. This manifestation can happen in any direction organisationally and is only limited to the fact that one party in the relationship depends on another.

Public speaking often appears at the top of 'worst fears' surveys. Public speaking, spiders, heights, and snakes are all things that can cause us anxiety and break into a nervous sweat. It may seem odd that public speaking appears so high, as unlike a poisonous reptile or falling from a tall building, delivering a work presentation has not ever, I believe, killed someone; (please correct me if I am wrong in the comments below).

Habits are the subconscious behaviours that we all do, often every day without making a deliberate decision to do so. Habits are our brains' way of saving energy and they can be both helpful and unhelpful!

I am on holiday this week so as any normal person does, I got thinking about how people with each strength approach their holidays! If you know your strengths see if the below relates to you and if you do not know your strengths, which of the descriptions can you identify with, that can give you an insight into what your strengths might be!

What characteristics and behaviours do you associate with good and bad managers? We often ask a similar question at the start of training and many of the answers we get relate to communication - 'bad managers do not listen to the ideas of others ', 'good managers make time for their employees’.