Change, Coaching, Creativity, Strategy, Training Transfer, Workshops
Whether you are planning a new product launch, forming a new team or planning a new strategy, there are two key challenges. The first is to decide what to do and the second is to make it happen. A whole science and business has grown up around the issue of Change...
Change, Coaching, Creativity
I’ve been asked by a few people lately why I named my business Creative Vectors Coaching. I chose the name to reflect my understanding of what coaching is. A vector is a term from maths and physics that has direction and magnitude and is illustrated with an...
Across Cultures, Coaching
Poor Jean Baptiste Bernadotte! When the Swedes asked this Napoleonic General to become their King in 1809, he thought he would be magnanimous and address the Swedish Parliament in their own language. But to his horror, his new subjects laughed at his efforts. Hofstede...
Coaching, Critical Thinking
Executive Coaching is a relatively new profession and even its practitioners sometimes struggle to explain what it is. In fact, coaching is a helping service that draws on many other disciplines to contribute to its own growing body of thought and evidenced practice....
Change, Coaching, Leadership, Resilience, Training Transfer
David (name changed) kept his staff under strict control. He knew if they had made a mistake, often before they did, and was quick to tell them about it and how to fix it. He wanted to develop his staff to be able to recognise and fix their own problems so he decided...