by Amanda Baines | Jan 30, 2024 | Leadership
Imagine this situation. Fred is in your sales team and at the end of every month Fred misses his sales target because his customers never pay their invoices on time. It’s the end of the month and once again Fred is in your office looking very sorry for...
by Amanda Baines | Jun 30, 2016 | Leadership
What are you at work – a coach, a counsellor or a mentor? This article takes a brief look at these three very different roles and explains why it’s critical that you understand what you’re doing. The words coaching, mentoring and counselling are used very freely...
by Amanda Baines | Sep 13, 2015 | Leadership
Here’s an insightful post from Tamsen Garrie of en-act.co.uk on the differences between coaching and mentoring and the roles they can both play towards enhancing your business success: None of us have the full tool kit required to start, develop and run a...
by Kate Mercer | Aug 7, 2015 | Leadership
A natural consequence of believing leadership myths 1 and 2 – that it requires special qualities, skills, expertise and knowledge to be a leader today – is that there appears to be a shortage of the right kind of people. Andif you believe that leadership...
by Amanda Baines | Jan 19, 2015 | Leadership
As a leader, one of the major challenges you will face is how to successfully develop the people in your organisation. Your team will need to be challenged, supported, encouraged to be creative and allowed to show initiative and make mistakes. You need them to be...
