By Elisabeth Goodman, 27th June 2020 I enjoyed my first experience of “Coaching in the Workplace, 2020” this week: a joint conference by the Association for Coaching and the Institute of Coaching, delivered this year through a digital platform. I learned about more than can be covered in just one blog, but was particularly drawn …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, revised 11th June 2020 (Originally posted as “Developing your coaching skills as a manager” 18th January 2017) Helping people perform at their best – where to start? We teach coaching skills in RiverRhee’s Introduction to Management course and also in Coaching Skills for Managers. We also apply these skills ourselves as coaches. …
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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, 1st May 2020 Psychological safety – definition of the term One of our RiverRhee Alumni reminded me recently of the concept of ‘psychological safety’ in teams. It’s a concept that’s been around for a few years now and is something that is relevant to any team, at any time. It may be …
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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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