It’s a rare privilege to listen to someone, who has experienced great discrimination in the workplace, but has nonetheless achieved a highly successful career. Lord Browne of Madingley, former Chief executive of BP, this week gave at consultancy Arup in London, an impassioned speech , which was partly about his won experiences and partly about...
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Many companies limit the effectiveness of their talent management by taking a narrow perspective of what is involved – focusing on the aspects of identifying, development retention and promotion. In contrast, a systemic view of talent takes into account the whole Talent Life Cycle and consists of nine key elements: · Employer reputation and engaging potential (more…)
The Mentoring Expert Webinars with David Clutterbuck and Lis Merrick are designed to provide continuing support and development for mentors. They are available to any mentoring programme, whether in-company or for a professional association or not-for-profit. Each is designed to last for 60 minutes, including 15 minutes of questions. Participants are also encouraged to send in their experiences...
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Arguably the most common cause of problems coaches bring to supervision is mismatch of expectations at the contracting stage of the relationship. Inexperienced coaches, in particular, tend to see the client and their issues in a linear way – the client something they need to address and the coach’s job is to help them find...
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In coming to virtual group supervision, people tend to have two main aims: Typically, a session would involve: Presenting an issue In presenting within the virtual environment, it is important to be succinct, to the point and open. Try to keep your explanation and scene-setting down to less than three minutes. In preparation, you should (more…)
The virtues of being in an outdoor environment for coaching and mentoring have been supported by a number of recent research studies into the connection between being in the natural environment and both mental and physical well-being, creativity, attentiveness and memory. Now an even stronger link has been established between well-being and being near water, (more…)
Here is a powerful but deceptively simple exercise to help leaders connect more fully with their teams. No matter how some leaders encourage their teams to be speak their minds, there is always at least a residual hesitation for them in doing so. It’s hard for the leader not to jump in with his or (more…)
One of the characteristics of great coaches and great places to work is that they have Fizz and Buzz. Fizz is the enjoyment people get out of the tasks they do. Buzz is the enjoyment from the people around them as they do those tasks. Playfulness, good humour and laughter are three closely related functions (more…)
No, it’s not a typographical error – it’s the latest neologism from the Clutterbuck word factory! I talk a lot about stakeholders (people and entities affected by what we do) and influencers (people or entities that enable or constrain us in what we do). Mistakeholders are a special subgroup of stakeholders – people, who suffer (more…)
It’s a truism that change is often more noticeable from outside than from within. Team coaches often assume that, just because they can see significant improvements in team behaviours or functions, the team itself is equally aware. That’s often not the case. So, how do we make them more aware? Some of the simplest approaches (more…)
