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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By Elisabeth Goodman, 13th January 2020 Working in geographically dispersed teams is a challenge for line and project managers The issue of how to best to manage geographically dispersed, remote or virtual teams was a hot topic at our recent Introduction to Management course. It seems that all the challenges of how to properly support, …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 7th January 2020 As we begin a new year, and a new decade, finding ways that we can get on better with each other at work, in our families, and in all spheres of life has got to be a good thing! Francesca Gino’s article with her great tips for effective collaboration …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 11th December 2019 People use ‘the fourth wall’ in open plan offices to create ‘public solitude’ The 18th -century French philosopher, Denis Diderot, came up with the concept of ‘the fourth wall’ for performers on a stage. He guided them to “imagine a huge wall across the front of the stage, separating …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 2nd December 2019 How purpose statements matter I’ve written before about the importance of purpose as a motivator for employees (see ‘Why clarity of purpose is so important for both effective leadership and management) Sally Blount and Paul Leinwand sum it up nicely in “Why are we here?” in the Nov-Dec 2019 …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 6th November 2019 helping team members deal with limiting self-beliefs There are a number of ways in which a manager can help their team members be at their best. Some of these approaches hover on the border between coaching (where a manager can intervene) and counselling (where it would be best to …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th October 2019 The Autumn issue of Project, the APM’s (Association for Project Management) quarterly publication, carries a couple of articles on the very important theme of well-being. Working on life science projects can be a high stress activity The APM commissioned some research by the University of Manchester, led by Dr …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th October 2019 According to W. Bennis, “Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing.” Clarity of purpose is one topic where these differences in remit can be vividly illustrated, as Thomas W. Malnight, Ivy Buche and Charles Dhanaraj remind us in “Put purpose …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 6th October 2019 According to Nancy Kline, author of “Time to Think”, thinking for ourselves and thinking well, is what enables us to be effective in anything that we do. And yet many things mitigate against us being able to think as frequently or as well as we could. Barriers to thinking …
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