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 integrated high performing team brings organisation coherence and focus. A good team begins with a collection of strong and talented [...]
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 enormous amount of value to a team meeting where outcomes are needed. Those outcomes could include actions, decisions, mutual understanding [...]
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 the combination a very powerful development tool. At CLT we focus on coaching programs that are: Targeted toward results and [...]
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, a promotion that they willingly accepted, they brought with them enough of the past to potentially derail their future. It [...]
Several years ago, I was chatting to Barry, my coach and mentor. At the time, I was particularly aggrieved at the behaviours of one of my peers. I complained that this person’s actions were clearly of malicious intent, and intended to position me in a negative light. It seemed so clear to me at the [...]
Our coaching spans all levels of organisations and I was working with a ‘Middle Manager’ the other day and the question came up, what is middle management – what is the role? It’s an interesting question, having worked with many organisations I see this layer of people between the workforce and senior management. In the [...]
Have you found a need to restructure your organisation lately? There’s a lot of it going on. There are a number of reasons why you would undertake this daunting task but the two big one’s are: 1. Cut costs (possibly due to a downturn in business) 2. Changing the way to go to market (new [...]
Career Life Transitions sat down with one of their senior coachee's to explore the reasons why and how they chose a coach, for their personal and professional development. We interviewed Glen, a state manager for a national financial institution. Glen describes in 1 word what he was looking for in a coach.....'clarity'.... Q1. What [...]
As a coach I’m aware that there are 4 key areas I‘m asked to assist people through: 1. Coaching for individual behaviour 2. Coaching for interactive behaviours 3. Coaching to convert knowledge to action 4. Coaching to solve a problem, make a decision or choose a new pathway. These requests either come from the individual [...]
When conflict arises in almost any situation, people immediately head to their corners and start to build the fortifications. Then when the conflict escalates they come out metaphorically swinging. If the conflict is around malicious intent then there is some argument to support this approach. Facts are that most of the conflicts we see are [...]
Dr Susan Roberts says: