By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th August 2022 My work, over the years, has taken me from enabling change in organisations, to teaching others how to do so, to coaching individuals for personal change. Facilitating any kind of change feels like a topic that is very much in my bones! So, coming across a new angle on …
Change revisited: from uncertainty to opportunity Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 22nd November 2021 I’m passionate about helping people to realise that they can have choice in what they do, and to discover or re-discover the resources to enable them to exercise that choice. For me it’s about getting clarity about what gives you meaning in your life, and then exploring and opening …
Making your life’s purpose a reality – one raindrop at a time Read More »
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 …
Starting from a position of choice in manager-employee relationships Read More »
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 …
Purpose statements revisited: how they matter and how to make them work Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 25th September 2019 We are entering that time of year when many companies carry out their performance reviews and appraisals. It can be quite a stressful exercise for individual team members, and for line managers. This article from the latest issue of Harvard Business Review provides some interesting insights that could be …
Are your performance measures driving the right behaviours? Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th September 2019 Why this blog? The ability to coach is an invaluable, if sometimes daunting, management skill, as well as something that I and my colleagues at RiverRhee offer to support our clients. So I am starting a new series of blogs, under the main heading of “The manager as coach”, …
The manager as coach: helping employees reach their potential Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th August 2019 Remember Gary Hamel’s article last November about how to retain employee engagement in growing and large organisations? The latest issue of Harvard Business Review (July – August 2019) carries two articles that provide some stimulating and converging ideas about how to achieve employee engagement through a combination of control …
The soul of a start-up, nimble leadership, flexibility and control Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 19th June 2019 providing the conditions for navigators of change One of the most repeated and, in my view, misleading tropes about change is that “people resist change”. Certainly if people are not given enough information and involvement or control they are likely to demonstrate resistance characterised by being a ‘victim’ or …
Recognising and responding to employees’ receptiveness to change Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 14th May 2019 Working across silos – an enabler for developing leadership skills I recently delivered one of RiverRhee‘s and PERLA‘s Transition to Leadership courses where we share, amongst other information, Michael D Watkins’ “7 seismic shifts” for new leaders. An essential skill, when moving into a leadership role, is the ability …
Working across silos – leadership in the matrix and in multi-functional projects Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th March 2019 How to give ‘negative’ feedback is one of the most frequent questions posed by delegates on RiverRhee’s management courses. It’s a topic we get into during our course on Performance Management and Development too. And it’s a question that arises when we explore the difference between coaching and mentoring. …
