DYK You can be happy at work? You can find fulfillment at work? Best places to work is not a mirage? Success at work need not come with failure elsewhere – family, health? Wish to shift gears in your life? if the answer is ‘no’, exit 🙂 I wonder, ‘what is the excuse?’ if the […]
Beyond Coaching Psychobabble: Let the Buyer Beware (Manfred Kets de Vries, INSEAD Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development & Organisational Change) ‘The advertising pitches of many coaches raise false expectations and seem designed to fool the gullible‘, says the author. Interesting perspective, I may add! Coaches Beware?! I am tempted to add. This post by the […]
‘Everyone needs a coach’, say Eric Schmidt to Bill Gates. But they don’t say ‘every one is a coach’!!  The selection of the coach is very important. Whether it is done by organization for the executive/leader, or by the coachee directly.  We don’t take a chance with a doctor, do we? Similarly, how can we […]
The role of a company’s promoter is starting to include helping in drawing up leadership succession plans and generally evaluating the talent of a CEO One cannot generalist [about Indian companies] of course. But it is slowly happening…promoters are making changes at the top level. The average tenure of a CEO now is just 4.6 […]
Don’t get misled by the heading! For, Coaching goes far beyond getting a mere promotion! Indeed, it has a far greater impact than training and 360 degree feedback. Coaching practice borrows, from not only sports and psychology, but also management, philosophy, art, science, et al. Make 2014 a special year… get a Coach, Life/Executive/Leadership… http://www.bps.org.uk/news/want-promotion-then-get-coach
