By Elisabeth Goodman, 24th May 2020 Many of the people that I work with, on RiverRhee’s management courses, and also in one-to-one coaching, are either relatively new to management, or transitioning from a management to a leadership role. One of the things that we stress in our leadership course is the importance of being authentic: …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 17th May 2019 An article in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review has, as is often the case, triggered some lateral thinking on my part. Borys Groysberg (2020) explores a case study of whether a manager should fight to keep a star employee who decides to leave the organisation without any …
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Elisabeth Goodman, 9th May 2020 I’ve been doing a bit of reading and thinking about the impact of diversity in how we think and learn and how this might play out in our interactions with each other at work, or indeed at home. A look at Neurodiversity There is a lot that we can learn …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 25th April 2020 I’ve been enjoying being a student on the Post Graduate Certificate in Business and Personal Coaching with Barefoot Coaching and the University of Chester. The course has brought me new insights as well as very helpful reminders of the key principles and techniques that go into making us more …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 13th April 2020 Visual thinking tools are something that many of us use in our day-to-day work Readers might remember when Tony Buzan’s mind-maps (Buzan, 2000) were all the rage, and in fact you may use them still for planning out pieces of writing, taking notes at meetings, or revising for assessments. …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 17th March 2020 Many organisations are developing their managers to be internal coaches, as an alternative to hiring external coaches to develop their staff. This blog explores the pros and cons of doing so. Why develop your managers to be coaches? According to Downey (2014), managers ideally combine leadership, management and coaching …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 12th March 2020 Professor Yeun Joon Kim and Junha Kim feature in an interview in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review (Meeker, A. 2020). Their conversation, based on a study in a Korean health-food company, and amongst students at a North American university suggests that feedback might have a different impact …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 8th March 2020 One of the questions that comes up periodically in our training and coaching work with managers (see RiverRhee), is what to do about someone who is underperforming. Often, the manager has put in an enormous amount of time, effort and worry to do everything that they can to help …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 13th February 2020 I am finding some great intersections between my regular reading of Harvard Business Review and my new reading as part of my development as a coach. This blog explores how congruence between our personal values and those of the organisation for which we work can influence how we feel …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th February 2020 We had a question during our recent RiverRhee Introduction to Management course about the relevance of learning about leadership skills as part of a management course. (We do have a follow-on Transition to Leadership course.) We believe that the visionary aspects of leadership are valuable ones for managers to …
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