Category: Leadership
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If you’re new to leading a virtual team, with a dispersed team also new to telecommuting, you will need as many resources as possible to help you succeed in this new mode of being with your colleagues and coordinating work online.
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Leadership conjures different images to different people. Not all of them are attractive, so not everyone wants to be associated with the notion of being a leader. It’s really not surprising, given the number of unsavoury “leaders” in the political or business spheres that we hear about on the news. Leadership implies doing good as…
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Je déteste organiser les réunions de mon équipe! Vous seriez surpris de voir combien de chefs d’équipe et de managers n’aiment pas vraiment les réunions. C’est l’un des défis les plus fréquents auxquels font face nos clients en coaching de leadership. Certaines personnes ont une aversion pour les nombreux aspects de l’expérience de groupe et…
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Photo Credit R. Baldwin Here’s a segment from my TEDx Lausanne Talk on 7 May 2018: When someone comes to you with an idea of something they want to do, but they’re still wondering about it, instead of jumping in to give them all sorts of advice, try asking these 4 questions! What do…
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Self-Leadership……. it sounds like just another management buzz word, doesn’t it? Actually, self-leadership is a very well-researched concept that proposes specific and practical cognitive strategies to improve personal effectiveness. It is a tested process by which individuals can learn to influence themselves to achieve their aspirations and objectives. Self-leadership theory is particularly interesting because it is…
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Sometimes when running leadership development programs we teach the simplest of things. We find ourselves resuscitating fundamental knowledge that people already have within themselves at a deep, core, human level but which somehow got buried in the desert of organisational life. So here it is….. Effort: 3 extra minutes of your time Requirement: absolute sincerity Benefit…
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Increasing the availability of coaching inside companies Coaching used to be largely reserved for executives and senior managers for whom an external professional coach would be hired to help them advance in various aspects of their leadership function. Coaching is an exclusive, highly customized learning and development experience, driven by the client’s goals, which explains why companies…
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Leadership is something we all express in our lives, most often without realizing it. When was the last time you took the initiative to organize an event at work, or for your family? You probably had to harness the help of other people and find creative solutions to any hurdles you faced. Maybe you had…
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Je dirais même plus: de très grands risques! Je ne parle pas des risques engendrés par le fait d’avoir les écouteurs sur les oreilles toute la journée, ni d’écouter aux portes, ni de mettre quelqu’un sur écoute. Je parle de décider de mettre toute votre attention pour écouter quelqu’un. Cela va vous amener à changer au…
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It’s so easy to get distracted. And when you’re not looking at what you want to achieve, when your attention is drawn to things that do not contribute to your goal, then you slow down and you might even stop altogether. In my years of coaching in organizations I have noticed that people spend a…
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