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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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An executive’s last 24 months in role before retirement – how to maximise the transfer of wisdom

Whenever a valued executive retires after many years, he or she takes with them a wealth of experience, insight and wisdom. This valuable resource is lost for good.

It doesn’t have to be that way. A planned approach can ensure a significant knowledge transfer.

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Core Qualities

Daniel Ofman’s Core Qualities model seeks to explain how people react to each other in terms of the ways in which they demonstrate tendencies towards core qualities – natural ways of thinking and behaving that are innate to the person (not learned behaviours). They can be viewed as characteristics that are part of a person’s...

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Feedback loops in Team systems

Feedback loops are an intrinsic part of all but the simplest systems. They inform how we respond to stimuli by adjusting behaviour. They can be reinforcing or balancing. Reinforcing feedback loops confirm what we already know or do and typically result in our continuing as before. Balancing feedback loops tell us when an action has...

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Future Story

Both individuals and teams often find it hard to focus on the future. We are just too busy in the present. What we need is constant nudges and reminders – a bit like checking the map and looking to the horizon to check we are going in the right direction. A simple technique that helps...

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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…)

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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…)

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Getting to know a coachee: Clutterbuck’s 13 questions

Psychometrics and other forms of diagnostic, such as 360-degree feedback, can be very helpful in getting to know a coachee and ‘what makes them tick’. But they take time, often require lengthy analysis and can become somewhat mechanical processes that miss the richness and complexity of ‘who is this person and how do they connect...

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