This post is a personal story about my experience as a Leader in a new role and country and the garden I nurtured along the way. The 7 key Leadership Lessons I learnt from tending my garden – an analogy for the real job of leading. A little bit of dedicated time every day does …
7 Leadership Lessons from a Garden… and how I grew in the process Read More »
Are you thinking about hiring a professional leadership coach? Perhaps you are researching the benefits and what a leadership coach can do for you. You are doing the right thing; you need to know what to expect. Let me help you. During my first 20+ years as a manager and leader, I often wondered what a …
Why hire a professional leadership coach? 8 reasons why you should. Read More »
It’s December 2004 Puerto Williams, Chile Where we [me and my crew] are based for the Summer Antarctic Season. I find myself with some freedom from my Chief Mate duties aboard our expedition yacht Pelagic Australis. A story on being prepared. Being prepared is a leadership attribute Picture crystal-clear blue skies, snow-capped mountains, not a breath …
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Oh, you’re in that position? Promoted, given a leadership role or even ‘voluntold’ to take on more responsibility? And in amongst all of that… you’ve inherited ‘the team’? Like it or not, leading an existing team is one of the toughest gigs to deal with as a front-line leader or manager and is far more …
On Leading Teams that you have just come your way…Step 1 Read More »
It’s 2009, and I am on a rig off the coast of Nigeria. A semi-submersible rig, to be precise, which had been around for a very long time. So long in fact, that I was asked to avoid certain areas that weren’t considered safe. Come on; it wasn’t the first time I had worked on …
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I have had the great pleasure of being a student of Judith E. Glaser’s work for the majority of 2016, and I am so excited to become one of the first Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ) qualified coaches in the world and bring this body of work to my world. Learn to Talk With people, Not At Them …
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