Coaching Pitfalls and Practice

Coaching Pitfalls and Practice

Last month I blogged about my experience working with Google managers to build their coaching skills and overcome the barriers to coaching, based on the powerful testimony of their own words and the words of their coachees. Here I cover some of the pitfalls I have...
Manager or Coach?

Manager or Coach?

Are you either a manager or a coach, or can you be both manager and coach? One of the positives that came out of the first Covid lockdown in 2020 for me was that I had the opportunity to join Google’s Mastery Faculty of virtual facilitators, to deliver training in...
Leadership and Productivity

People and Productivity

There was a fascinating discussion this week on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme about productivity. It was very refreshing to hear Paul Drechsler say that “people have a fantastic attitude to work if they are well managed, well motivated, well supported”. I agree with...