What do you do with those staff that take up the majority of your time?  Maybe they’re the people who produce significant business for you, or perhaps they preoccupy you and their co-workers with their demanding, troublesome or toxic behaviours.

As a coach, I’m always interested to know what happens once I’ve worked with a client.  Sometimes I find out when a client tells me they’ve been referred and then I reckon things must have gone well.  Most times I don’t know the end result. But I do know the work that I put in…

We are frequently being told that social networking has arrived and that we’re missing something personally and professionally if we don’t engage.  Celebrities continue to perch on branches and Tweet on Twitter, Facebook has passed into popular acceptance by having a new film made about it and things move so fast that Bebo, My Space…

I often hear people discussing  personality profiling as they explain their personality types and wear them like a badge of honour, with words such as ” I’m an ISTJ”, “What are you?” And then they do what?  Well they probably file their types away, like postcodes, in their address book or in their office top-drawer,…

In the current climate of uncertainty and economic gloom it is little wonder that we suppose that only the brightest or strongest survive.  Yet research continues to show that it is not how intelligent we are but how able we are to cope with circumstances and our response to them, especially when things go wrong. …

Who do we consider a good leader?  One with qualities, someone with a proven track record for integrity, wisdom, steadfastness. Or is it an individual who creates great visions?

As the rate and pace of corporate restructuring grows, and the haste to contain shareholder unrest outstrips a company’s ability to maintain performance, is it really survival of the fittest? We have seen over the months a series of high-profile cases with organisations and individuals  coping with restructuring to varying degrees. Some heavily-publicised cases show what can happen when…

After reading again Dan Gardener’s book ‘Risk’  I notice more, as I work with organisations, how often ‘gut’ feeling can often overide ‘reason’ in business decisions. 

Some time ago I started Cognitions Business Coaching, working with companies and executives to get the best out of themselves and their organisations, using cognitive-behavioural strategies. I realised early that the only constant around was that of change and that our ability to change would make us stand out from the crowd. Passion for Coaching…

No matter where you go, whichever organisation or whichever country and whichever culture, the dynamics of work are all the same.  Office politics don’t disappear, they simply change colour, mood, topic.  They metamorphose similar destructive and unresourceful behaviours that take their toll, both on the organisation and the individual.