Posted in: Various – Kevin | Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Employee retention can be a challenge for business leaders. Positively impacting your retention rates can significantly improve productivity and bottom line results.
Posted in: Various – Kevin | Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
What would prove more expensive for your company – investing in management coaching or finding a new manager? One of our Stepshift clients, a senior leader in a large insurance business, was interested in measuring the return on investment of the management coaching programme we ran with him and a number of his senior managers and management [...]
Posted in: Various – Kevin | Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Improving your ability to provide inspirational leadership can lead to more success for senior business executives and their organisations. You could argue that the most important attribute of a leader is their ability to inspire others. Successful leaders are able to mobilise and motivate people inside and outside their organisation, to deliver the organisation’s key [...]
Posted in: Various – Lynn | Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Why did you become a Leadership Coach? In my previous roles I was exposed to successful business leaders (both as clients and colleagues) and I had been fascinated by the factors that separate successful business leaders and teams from those that are less than successful. I was interested in the matters which either enabled or [...]
Posted in: Various – Lynn | Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
On the eve of his departure from New Zealand, leading rugby coach Robbie Deans was interviewed on his success as a sporting coach. Many of the key messages are also relevant to effective business and leadership coaching. Here are some of them: Self analysis “I took a break from the NPC and did some research [...]
Posted in: Various – Lynn | Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Lynn Humphrey outlines some of the work and life issues that leadership and executive coaching can help to address.
Posted in: Various – Kevin | Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Using executive mentors in New Zealand business has a long history and more recently has changed in form. Historically some business people were assigned executive mentors who had “walked the path” to help guide and coach them. The upside was that these executive mentors had been there and done that, the downside was that they [...]
Posted in: Various – Kevin | Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Companies interested in enhancing their leadership and team performances often engage the services of business consultants as facilitators. When Stepshift’s business consultants work in the area of leadership team development, they start with a gap analysis exercise. They then act as facilitators to assist the team to look honestly at where they are, where they want to [...]
Posted in: Various – Carmel | Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
When embarking on an executive coaching or leadership team development programme, it is critical to establish the measures of success and the return on investment required. At an executive level, the outcomes for the programme will normally include a number of areas that ultimately add value to the business.
Posted in: Various – Carmel | Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
A high performing executive team is critical to the ability of an organisation to drive results and execute the company strategy in a sustainable way. Therefore developing your leadership team is vital. It is critical that, at this level, the leadership team members are each committed to achieving the organisational results and not just those [...]
Posted in: Various – Carmel | Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Leaders’ effectiveness can be enhanced by effective executive coaching. Executive coaching facilitates leaders to clarify what they want to achieve and to identify and work on the key underlying areas that will enable them enjoy enhanced leadership effectiveness and success. These underlying areas vary from leader to leader and the one to one nature of [...]
Posted in: Various – Carmel | Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Leadership performance is driven by a number of factors including the leader’s ability to influence and get buy in and commitment from others in the team or organisation. The ability to influence other people at a leadership level is driven by several factors including the leader’s proven technical or industry capability and effective leadership skills.
Posted in: Various – Kevin | Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
If motivation levels are flagging, despite your career success, you may need to examine some key questions. Key Values and Priorities When you as a leader are clear on your work values, you have a foundation for leadership that will allow you, your team and your organisation to benefit. Are you clear on your values and their priority?
Posted in: Various – Kevin | Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Retaining employees can be a challenge for business leaders. Positively impacting your retention rates can significantly improve productivity and bottom line results. Why is it important to hold on to employees? While unemployment in New Zealand is likely to rise over the next year, much of that unemployment rise will be in the unskilled labour force. Recruiting highly [...]
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