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Tags: influencing others, leadership development, leadership performance
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
There are periods in the lifecycle of most leaders when they achieve significant breakthroughs in their leadership effectiveness and performance over a relatively short timeframe. This article explores how to achieve a real breakthrough in your leadership performance and improve your career.
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Tags: influencing others, leadership development, leadership performance, team development
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Finding time to review your leadership performance and understand how to maximize your skills and those of your team can benefit most leaders, no matter how long you have been in a senior position. In these Free Leadership Articles our experienced executive and business coaches share some of the tools and processes that can help you significantly improve your leadership.
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Tags: business coaching, motivation
Posted in: Developing Leaders – Lynn |
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Whether you are a leader, a member of a team or in business for yourself, being personally motivated is a vital ingredient for your sense of purpose, happiness and ability to achieve at a high level.
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Tags: leadership performance, motivation
Posted in: Developing Leaders – Lynn |
Monday, January 24th, 2011
For a leader, a sense that you are losing your mojo or motivation can be very scary. Being highly motivated at work is enormously satisfying and productive but even very successful people can lose their drive and energy, and find it difficult to kick-start their motivational engine.
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Tags: leadership coaching, leadership development
Posted in: Developing Leaders – Lynn |
Monday, January 17th, 2011
Utilising a leadership coach is not an indication that you are an under performer. In sports athletes and teams recognise the value of a good coach for development of technique, strategy, mental application and focus. What benefits do they and thousands of other successful people get from a good coaching relationship?
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Tags: business coaching
Posted in: Developing Leaders – Lynn |
Monday, January 10th, 2011
Before starting the process of choosing a business coach you need to honestly examine your own personal readiness to be coached. If you’re not ready to learn, grow and take action, business coaching may not be successful.
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Kevin |
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
Those who take their leadership to new heights develop the ability to positively impact and influence others. The impact may involve anything from building relationships to motivating to influencing change. Irrespective of who you wish to impact and how, it starts with self-awareness.
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Carmel |
Monday, October 11th, 2010
A good level of trust between executive team members underpins a team’s ability to make decisions quickly and objectively. When the level of trust is low, politics and personal agendas impair the ability of the team to be as effective and successful as it could be. The leader plays a key role in ensuring trust levels are built and maintained.
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Kevin |
Monday, September 20th, 2010
Staff performance relies heavily on the capability and commitment of those staff. What fuels their commitment is the energy they can apply to their work. As leaders your role is to help staff harness and maximise that energy and because conflict has a tendency to drain people, knowing how to provide conflict management and resolution is an essential leadership skill.
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Kevin |
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
When CEOs are leading significant change, transition or improvement in their business, isolation can be detrimental to their leadership performance. Leading a business during this period is more challenging and stressful than at any other time.
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Lynn |
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
At Stepshift we are committed to providing leadership coaching in a manner which delivers outstanding organisational and personal success. Our philosophies in developing leadership coaching and mentoring programmes are as follows:
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Lynn |
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
When leaders and executives are ready to achieve a Stepshift in their leadership or performance, effective executive coaching and mentoring can provide the catalyst. There are some fundamental steps that are essential in any effective leadership mentoring programme. The Stepshift leadership coaching and mentoring programme involves:
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Lynn |
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
When leaders and executives are ready to achieve a Stepshift in their leadership or performance, effective executive coaching and mentoring can provide the catalyst. This may be with one individual or across a whole management or leadership group. Executive mentoring is used increasingly as a tool to achieve both personal growth and improved business outcomes. [...]
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Lynn |
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Some of you will have had significant experience with leadership coaching while for some of you it is a relatively new concept. And yet, as leaders within your organisations, you will no doubt be interested in three things:
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Lynn |
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
A paper in the 2001 Manchester Review (Vol 6 Number1) by McGovern and others reported the results of research into Maximising the Impact of Executive Coaching and arrived at some interesting conclusions (we do not have space to cover the methodology of the research but if you are interested please call a stepshift Partner and [...]
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Lynn |
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
A paper in the 2001 Manchester Review (Vol 6 Number1) by McGovern and others reported the results of research into Maximising the Impact of Executive Coaching and arrived at some interesting conclusions (we do not have space to cover the methodology of the research but if you are interested please call a stepshift Partner and [...]
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Kevin |
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
When business leaders are looking to take a significant step up in their leadership or with their business, mentoring with the right mentor can provide significant benefits during that period of transition. The skills and experience you require from the mentor and in the mentoring relationship, will vary depending on you and your situation, but [...]
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Kevin |
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Perhaps more than anything else what differentiates great leaders from good leaders is your ability to get the best from yourself and from others. This is particularly critical in times of change, turnaround or growth when leaders are under pressure. Leadership coaching is a proven on-the-job intervention that can assist you to significantly develop your [...]
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Kevin |
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Perhaps the greatest asset that most organisations have is their people. This people asset often holds the key to their competitive advantage because as people potential is realised, their improved performance drives business success. So how do you realise people potential – one proven way is to develop your leaders as coaches.
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Kevin |
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Key reasons why coaching can deliver more impact for managers and leaders than other interventions, are that it is totally focused on the coachee and it works in the context of their leadership role rather than outside it.
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Kevin |
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
When it is time to select yourself a coach there are a few questions to consider that will ensure you make the best selection. There are obviously coaches in different fields – this blog focuses on choosing a leadership executive or business coach. Ask yourself these questions:
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Kevin |
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Executive Coaches are not for everyone. Business leaders and managers have times when they want to take a significant step in their leadership or career. This may involve for example achieving more success or traction in your role or with your business, getting more from your people or preparing for or stepping into a more [...]
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Posted in: Developing Leaders – Kevin |
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Improving your leadership often involves more than developing new skills or behaviours. Improving leadership performance often focuses on improving capabilities and behaviours. This may range from impacting areas of interpersonal capability right through to technical areas such as the leader’s ability to read a balance sheet.
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