Q & A with Wayne Bishop, Founder of Changing Gears
What is the Changing Gears program? In a nutshell Changing Gears is about celebrating our ageing workforce, transitioning them from full-time work with dignity and assisting their employer organisations with that process. It has [...]
Are you fearing facing a challenge or making a change? Change your Mindset
There is no fence – you just think there is. Often one of the main barriers to achieving something in our life is our own thinking. When faced with changes or transitions we often remain [...]
Why using LinkedIn works
There was a time when I knew every single person that I was connected to on LinkedIn personally. I still know about 80% or more. As an experienced coach and the daughter of a master [...]
Ageing Workforce – Is Your Company’s Head in the Sand?
For such a topical subject, it is surprising how little organisations are paying attention to it. Is it because its not seen as an operation imperative? Are people oblivious to the consequences? Or is it [...]
Building a High Performing Team
While the CEO, manager, supervisor or leader is critical to setting the direction or goals, long term success depends upon a team approach. A poorly performing team breeds competing agendas and turf politics, while an [...]
A resume is like a dating profile
Really? Well, maybe. The relationship between an employee and his or her employer has a lot of similarities to a romantic relationship. It starts with a spark of interest, there’s a period of courtship [...]
Facilitation: How to be effective
Effective Facilitation Effective facilitation consists of inputs (actions) by one or more persons that help groups achieve their goals and maintain or improve their competencies to achieve their goals. A skilled facilitator can add an [...]
Redundancy at 50. It’s not as bad as you think.
This year I turn 49. I’m doing work that I am really passionate about but still find myself having the inevitable thoughts that happen around every decade birthday. "Am I where I thought I would [...]
Don’t Ignore Mentoring (Ask us how)
Whilst we do a lot of coaching for development at CLT, we also strongly recommend establishing a mentoring program within your business. There are some major differences between mentoring and coaching, and these differences make [...]
Change – Welcome or unwelcome, any change comes with challenge
I was speaking to a good friend of mine the other day about the nature of change and she raised an interesting scenario. When an employee in her organisation was put into a better position, [...]
Dr Susan Roberts says: