Connecting the Dots | How Leaders Benefit from Relationships
Leadership always occurs in the context of relationships. The key relationships in a leader’s world contextualize their identity, behavior, and performance. Relationships are the key to their success and fulfillment. Equally, they enable us to weather life’s storms, providing safe harbours to heal, learn, and grow.
Leadership Beyond the Vacuum: Creating Healthy Relationships
Business is no different because we don’t lead in a vacuum. Fostering successful relationships is the key to building relationships that help to effectively manage up and down, build organizational trust, increase staff engagement, and empower collaboration. We are also seeing a stronger link between the quality of a leader’s relationships outside of work and how this impacts key relationships at work.
The power of momentum. How a coach can help you sustain it.
Are you needing to make a change in your business but don’t know how to get started? Rather than being excited about the opportunities you can see, are you finding yourself unsure of what initial steps to take, leading you to not take any action at all? Maybe you are quietly confident about what is in front of you, but would value having a trusted coach who can act as a sounding-board for you and ask questions that you might overlook.
Validating the value of coaching
Coaching is seen by some as a luxury, an added expense that offers little in the way of tangible results, and there are still some who question the value coaching adds to a business’s bottom line. However, the very nature of human development requires resources such as relationships, networks and alliances to grow and flourish.
Forward thinking business partnerships
“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be” (Paul Valery, 1871-1945). Much could be said about our changing world—economic volatility, political and civil unrest, epic levels of national debt, corrupt governments, a global pandemic and the impact of new technologies on the labor market. While not exclusively, […]
Soft power: Why the best story wins
Whereas traditional power tended to focus on coercion (‘sticks’) and payment (‘carrots’), it is time to think more creatively about getting others to want what you want. This is achieved by focusing our efforts around creating a new narrative, rather than on ‘who wins’. Nye describes this as ‘soft power’ (Nye, 2010). As the Professor of […]