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How executives learn

As we are coming out of this crisis and starting to look forward, organisations are transitioning from crisis management to planning for the future. To successfully change and innovate, it is worth considering what you should stop doing as much as what you should start doing.

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Overcoming your inner critic

As we are coming out of this crisis and starting to look forward, organisations are transitioning from crisis management to planning for the future. To successfully change and innovate, it is worth considering what you should stop doing as much as what you should start doing.

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Self-compassion and the growth mindset

As we are coming out of this crisis and starting to look forward, organisations are transitioning from crisis management to planning for the future. To successfully change and innovate, it is worth considering what you should stop doing as much as what you should start doing.

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Leading in uncertain times

At one level it is easy to believe that there is more uncertainty about than ever, with the media constantly highlighting how unclear the future looks, what is going wrong and what could go wrong.

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Problem solving by re-framing

Framing is cognitive bias, which is built upon your beliefs, and determines how you ascribe meaning to the world around you and how you see yourself and others.

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Exploring Leadership Goals

Goals are one of the main tools in coaching to facilitate change and yet they are often misunderstood or used too simplistically, resulting in failure to achieve them.

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Trust in Leaders

Trust is an issue. No doubt about it. Do you trust the government? Do you trust your employer? Do you trust your leaders?

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Stop. Consider. Succeed.

As we are coming out of this crisis and starting to look forward, organisations are transitioning from crisis management to planning for the future. To successfully change and innovate, it is worth considering what you should stop doing as much as what you should start doing.

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Listen. Be open to change.

One of my old teachers used to say there is a reason you are born with two ears and one mouth, to listen more, and in the middle of communication there is U and I meaning both parties have to be involved. Organisations can create the environment but what are individuals signing up to.

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Can you coach creativity?

Organisations are advised that all they need to do is develop the right environment, culture, incentives, organisation structure, strategy and processes and then sit back and wait for creativity to flourish. But what is creativity? Where does it come from?

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