So says Bill Gates. Organisations need a coaching culture. Managers need to be able to coach. The best teams have effective coaches. All sensible advice. All relevant to our organisations. All best practice. All right? What Bill Gates says next is more telling: We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we… Read More Everyone needs a coach
A quick trawl through my junk mail filter in the last few months and I can find emails selling me ‘spooktacular’ deals (Hellowe’en) and ‘explosive deals’ (Guy Fawkes). I can’t stand those emails. They feel contrived and unoriginal; I can almost sense the copywriter, charged with a ‘quick’ solution going to their big book of… Read More An easy way out post
Bit of a difficult post this week; it’s quite personal but felt it was worth writing as a way of understanding learning experiences. And thanks to John Lennon for the post title. Welcome to Malta. That is the shape of the largest lesion on my back. It has a family of others who have appered… Read More Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans..
New year, new learning strategy to come. I’ll post about that later this year but thought the story of a quick 1-1 coaching activity this week might be of interest. A manager mentioned to me that they were struggling with time management activities (remember this post) and asked if I had any resources I could let them… Read More You can’t do it all
So, the 2 Manchester clubs have inflicted crushing defeats on the 2 North London Premiership clubs. Irrespective of your thoughts about football, I’d love to know how the managers would approach the team talks with the players after the respective games. I think I’d prefer to be Arsene than Harry tonight. Milestone defeats like the one suffered… Read More At the end of the day, I’m over the sick parrot…