I just took the Listening Habits Profile assessment on ListeningLeaders.com. When in coach mode my listening is very good, yet as a listening leader I score a measly 62%. Pretty average I’m to understand. It’s not that I don’t know what to do, more that I forget to do it all the time. That’s why [...]
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John is a typical upper-level manager. He began work with a large corporate the week he finished university. He thought his training was comprehensive but the real world knew better. It was a further eight weeks before his induction training was complete. John was well versed in the matters of timesheets, stationery requisitions and the [...]
Stephen Denning, the author of The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling has commented on the role of emotions in learning. He conjects that “narrative is important for high-speed learning: it can engage the heart” and suggests that learning is easy when we are motivated to learn. I agree. As with anything, a mood of ambition or [...]
Coaching In Action I walked to the middle of the circle holding my name tag in my hands. Turning around to face the other course participants I held up my name tag and declared in a voice from the centre of my being, “This is my name tag but this is me and I am [...]
