By Elisabeth Goodman, 17th September 2022 I’ve been working on two new books1,2 over the past year, and I’m really excited to share this pre-view of Coaching in the Helix for those of you who choose to buy and read this in early 2023! Here is an adapted extract from my introduction. This book is …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 22nd October 2021 A little about me and the title of this blog I’m on a bit of a creative journey at the moment, through a combination of some spiritual explorations (see for example Neill 2016) and following an 8-week course on mindfulness (Chaskalson & McMordie 2018) that I’ve interrupted mid-way whilst …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 24th January 2019 Harvard Business Review has come up with another insightful article on what makes for effective leadership. This time, Gary P. Pisano shines a light on what leaders can do to channel potentially chaotic creative talent into cost-effective and productive behaviours and outcomes. (The Hard Truth about Innovative Cultures, HBR …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th August, 2015 Why learn to draw? I’m a Francophile: I read French novels, my current favourites being Fred Vargas’s series featuring the detective Adamsberg. I spend my summer holidays in the Languedoc in the South of France, soaking up the sunshine, delicious fruit and vegetables, dramatic landscapes and ad hoc conversations …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 21st May 2015 The Ideas Centre – a great resource for creative thinking I recently had the opportunity to attend one of Dave Hall’s workshops from The Ideas Centre. Dave regularly holds off-site and in-house workshops where he introduces delegates to principles and tools to stimulate their creative thinking, and so enables …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 24th January 2015 Edward De Bono’s thinking course One of the aspects of my local library that I particularly enjoy is the way I might serendipitously discover a gem of a book that the staff have either casually or deliberately put on display. One such recent discovery was Edward De Bono’s “Thinking …
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By Véronique Mermaz Editor’s note: I met Véronique through Twitter and LinkedIn and have since had several face-to-face conversations with her. As she says in her footnote, she is a native French speaker living in East Anglia, specialising in French marketing support. I was struck when I met her by the richness of her experience …
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Intuition has an important role in process improvement In a previous blog “The problem with relying on intuition for process improvement and decision making” I emphasized the problems with, rather than the opportunities for intuition. However, as Gary Klein(1) points out, the analytical techniques practiced in Lean Six Sigma also have their shortcomings. A point also …
Intuition does have an important role in business In a previous blog “The problem with relying on intuition for process improvement and decision making” I emphasized the problems with, rather than the opportunities for intuition. One of my blog readers, Deborah Peluso, kindly pointed me to Gary Klein’s 30+ years of work on intuition with the …
Knowledge management and creativity/ innovation enhance project management. I am a firm believer in the value of knowledge management to enhance project management. I also believe that the use of formal structures, such as those advocated in Lean and Six Sigma (or process improvement), and project management, give people more rather than less scope for …
