Mentor-Coach Conversation: When aiming for that next promotion or a different role it helps to have a well thought out plan. Here's some mentoring advice.
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Mentor-Coach Conversation | The executive and director of the future will need to be a connector, possessing stronger capabilities in building and sharing professional relationships, and do so strategically.
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Mentor-Coach Conversation | There are different facets of strategy that the leader needs to consider.
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Mentor-Coach Conversation | Try an experiment. Think of three problems you have faced recently. Was your response situational or default? Did you change focus when needed to ensure better solutions and pathways?
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Mentor-Coach Conversation | How are you navigating towards the next level? What are the risks you need to counter? How can you be better prepared?
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Mentor-Coach Conversation | Whether it is an enterprise-wide strategy, a transformation plan or a key piece of work, moving from visualisation to actualisation takes a specific execution skill set, an investment in mission-critical talent, the right resource allocation, hyper focus and discipline. Certain operating styles create differentiation and impact.
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Mentor-Coach Conversation | As an executive or a board director accountable for business direction, growth and differentiation, how can you Work Creatively! to be more effective as a strategist, innovator or problem-solver?
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Mentor-Coach Conversation | Although executives and board directors understand the importance of succession planning, often the outcomes go off track — here are some reasons why. Succession ‘doing’ is hard work.
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Mentor-Coach Conversation | New to a role? It is difficult to recover from a poor start. A more strategic and integrated approach means a new leader can avoid these typical mistakes.
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Mentor-Coach Conversation | Useful guidance about tensions, dilemmas and paradoxes by Wendy K. Smith and Marianne W. Lewis, authors of ‘Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems’
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Mentor-Coach Conversation | For reinvention, uncover your hidden methodology for success, its benefits and limitations. What is your context and perception about success?
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Mentor-Coach Conversation | As you start to plan your NED portfolio career here is some tried and true advice to start the journey. Like most transitions, it takes time and planning as the move often unfolds differently to what you first imagined.
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Mentor-Coach Conversation | For many, certain questions of doubt keep recurring. Will they be good enough? Will they be found out? Will the next role or assignment be the one that brings them undone? Here are some solutions.
Mentor-Coach Conversation | How do you make sure you are better prepared for the next level? Without the ability to leverage change into a source of advantage, individual and technical skills are all but temporal. A lack of future relevancy is a key career risk for executives.
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Mentor-Coach Conversation | Loss is often deeply felt during careers. Empathetic managerial leaders understand the impact of disruption on an individual during decisions relating to advancement, transition and change initiatives.
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Mentor-Coach Conversation | While it is important not to be naive, a lack of mutual trust derails a business. Sustainable trust is an ongoing process that relies on maturity, perspective, empowerment, engagement, ethical behaviour and respectful relationships.
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Coaching Conversation: your career is significant professional and personal capital. Searching for a new job creates dilemmas, as all new roles come with risk. When under pressure – real or self-imposed – not asking the following questions is a mistake.
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