by Amanda Baines | Jun 12, 2015 | Leadership
Many executive coaches offer telephone coaching to their clients, and it can be very effective. If time and place are an issue it is often very helpful to be able to have a telephone call with your coach. But from a personal point of view, I far prefer working with my...
by Amanda Baines | Jun 3, 2015 | Leadership
We caught up with Chi-Zeng Nim, Marketing & Communications Officer at Stratford Circus Arts Centre, who was in the first cohort of associates who graduated from Foundation for FutureLondon’s elle leadership coaching programme this Spring; elle was designed and run...
by Amanda Baines | Jun 1, 2015 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
Teamwork has become the default way of working in organisations. Many of us have a long-lasting romance with teams, yet we rarely stop and question the assumptions. Like breathing, we just do it. Is teamwork still a safe bet or is it ‘last century’? The benefits of...
by Amanda Baines | May 29, 2015 | Leadership
Too many people blame circumstances or those around them for the stress in their life. The first step to self-leadership, and ultimately to great leadership of others, is to learn to take responsibility for and manage your own responses to stress. Brian Bacon from...
by Amanda Baines | May 22, 2015 | Leadership
One of the most common complaints we get in working with business leaders at any level in organisations is the old chestnut, “my boss doesn’t understand me”. Do these sound familiar in any way: ‘They’ are not telling me anything. He/she isn’t interested in me/my...
