Personal Development

To Be Ambitious We Need To Grow Executives, we find, desire personal growth.  Executives are generally ambitious individuals and understand that by developing their skills they can expand their horizons. Organisations also understand this to be true, in that if they drive executive personal development, the organisation as a whole will grow and develop, driving [...]

What Is Training?

Training Defined Our view of training is the organisation’s capability to increase skills, capabilities and behaviours that drive value. Training executives through coaching or other means needs to be at the heart of any organsiation’s strategic vision. Training And Culture Training provides a self perpetuating culture, driving a common behaviour of can do and achievement, [...]

What Is Mentoring?

What Is Executive Mentoring? Executive mentoring is the guidance of executives by executives with a similar background. We only use executive mentoring as a technique within executive coaching, and only when appropriate. When Should We Use An Executive Mentor? Executive mentoring should only be used as an element of an approach and only once other [...]

What Is Executive Coaching?

What Is Executive Coaching? Executive coaching was described perfectly by one of our clients as a chance to have a “self indulgent reflection in a safe environment with somebody who can help me grow”. Executive Coaching is a powerful approach focused on the client’s objectives using various techniques built on a strong platform of rapport [...]

Executive Coaching And Training

Increased Capability Drives Competitive Advantage Developing your teams’ capability offers organisations an opportunity to exploit or improve their competitive advantage.  Organisational capability can be enhanced through general organisational operations and also through a structured training & development programme. What can executive coaching do for training in your organisation? Most organisations probably don’t immediately think there [...]

Executive Coaching Vs Executive Mentoring

What’s the difference between executive coaching and executive mentoring? Is Executive Coaching the same as executive mentoring? Mentoring is a valid technique WITHIN executive coaching. Essentially it is one of the tools available to a qualified and experienced executive coach. However, a mentor may not necessarily be a coach. What is Executive Mentoring? Executive Mentoring [...]

Discussing Leadership With Leaders

Today I was executive coaching a CEO on Leadership and was struck just how challenging leadership is and how heavy the mantle of leadership is for senior people. CEO Background This is a CEO who has been in role for 4 years. He has risen up the ranks of his company and knows the business [...]