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.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | Ensuring the sustainability of arts organisations is vital to a creatively connected nation. Our cultural and creative sectors are facing significant forces of change and evolution. A recent report by the Arts Council sets out the current state of governance in the arts and highlights new insights about governance practices.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | Every potential non-executive director comes with some gaps. Every board is different. There is no such thing as the universal, perfect candidate. Yet, it is frustrating to face short list rejection. How should you strengthen your board applications?
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | It takes considerable effort to make it to the offer stage for a board role. What are the ‘deal breakers’ for joining a board? Which hard and soft factors should be questioned? Where should an aspiring director draw the line?
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | According to the Edelman Trust Barometer, the top trust-building action for business is now guarding information quality, ensuring that reliable trustworthy information goes out to their employees, and, by extension, the community.
Read MoreMentor-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.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | Building a credible director profile requires purposeful choices. Here are 5 do’s and don’ts as I explained in this AICD’s Company Director magazine article.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | Unaddressed conflict takes on a life of its own, with sides emerging, focus diverted, wrong fights battled and the pushing of competitive bias. In high-trust cultures, people may debate rigorously, but they commit to the best overall future. Constructing the right degree of tension is the challenge.
Read MoreCoaching 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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