The dangers of relying on an AI to write an article

AIs like Gemini or ChatGPT can be very helpful in speeding up research. I’ve always been careful to check out any references with another source, such as Google Scholar or Research Gate and where possible go beyond the abstract to evaluate the whole paper. Most of the time, I find that the work is genuine and that I can extract what I need from the article text. But not all the time.

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Psychedelic coaching

Board directors have immense responsibility – the future of the company is in their hands and in the decisions they make. They also have responsibility to multiple stakeholders, including employees, suppliers, customers, investors and the environment. In theory, great responsibility should be accompanied by great accountability. In practice, the consequences when directors do a poor job, are minimal. While there are sanctions for dishonesty (such as disqualification or in extreme cases, such as fraud, prison), the bar for incompetence is set so high in many Western economies that the only sanction is losing their job. 

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Tomorrow’s Board: Why every director needs the skills of coaching and mentoring

Board directors have immense responsibility – the future of the company is in their hands and in the decisions they make. They also have responsibility to multiple stakeholders, including employees, suppliers, customers, investors and the environment. In theory, great responsibility should be accompanied by great accountability. In practice, the consequences when directors do a poor job, are minimal. While there are sanctions for dishonesty (such as disqualification or in extreme cases, such as fraud, prison), the bar for incompetence is set so high in many Western economies that the only sanction is losing their job. 

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Enter the Otrovert

I once went through a battery of psychometric tests with one of the leading psychology consultancies. I wanted to understand them from the perspective of the client experience. For a lot of the questions, I found myself saying “From this perspective, I’d answer X; but from another perspective, I’d answer Y”. Clearly frustrated, the psychologist told me that my personality was too complicated for diagnosis!

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The protégé effect: How mentors learn from mentoring

The protégé effect: How mentors learn from mentoring1 The protégé effect describes how we learn by teaching others. Multiple experiments demonstrate that, to get our heads around a complex topic, explaining it to someone else can be highly effective. One such experiment took a class of schoolchildren studying the biological progress of a fever. Half...

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How Anyone Can Become More Trustworthy and Create Psychological Safety

Article by Deiric McCann, Genos Trustworthiness often seems like a mysterious quality, something inherent and unchangeable. However, the reality is that trustworthiness is a skill that can be intentionally developed by focusing on specific aspects of how we interact with others and how we present ourselves.  Similarly, psychological safety, which builds on trust, is crucial (more…)

From Teaming to Steaming

When a team is all aligned and coherent, we talk about “all singing from the same sheet”. It’s an apt metaphor, capturing the concepts of pace and flow, rhythm and attentive listening. Another metaphor that captures the way teams come together to release greater energy than would happen when they are working individually is “coming (more…)

Stages of Development of a Coaching Culture

David Meggison & I explored the concept of organisational coaching cultures in our book ‘Making Coaching Work’ (first edition published 2005). The subject has fascinated me ever since & continues to be a major ongoing theme. Based on multiple case studies, we were able to identify four stages that organisations went through in creating a (more…)

Self-reflection versus self-rumination

Introspection – being able to look in at ourselves – is at the heart of both leadership and coaching. Wise leaders’ self-awareness contributes to their identity and groundedness. When we understand ourselves better, we are more able to understand others. Coaching and mentoring both help others to gain clarity about their internal and external environments...

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Reflections of HRDs internationally

If I knew then what I know now…Reflections of HRDs internationally  Report of a study by David Clutterbuck Partnership, 2021 In mid 2021, with the help of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the UK (CIPD), and the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI), I asked Human Resource Directors for their views on the...

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