by Creative Vectors Coaching | Sep 24, 2012 | Coaching, Leadership, Resilience
In my last blog I wrote about the benefits of frustration as a prompt to get you to imagine what you want. “daring to dream is an important step in thinking about change” This kind of imagining is future-oriented and is a creative step towards choosing...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Jul 3, 2012 | Coaching, Creativity, Strategy, Teams, Training Transfer
I’m really enjoying reading a recently published book by psychoanalyst Adam Phillips called, “Missing Out: In praise of the unlived life.” He says that we spend a lot of our energy on awareness of what is not in our life and wanting something else. This is essential...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | May 29, 2012 | 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...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Mar 29, 2012 | 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...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Feb 21, 2012 | 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...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Jan 24, 2012 | 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....
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Nov 29, 2011 | Coaching, Leadership
Conscientiousness and a passion for excellence are highly prized qualities in the workplace today. In a highly competitive world we need to avoid mistakes and achieve the highest standards. So a perfectionist working style can be a real asset. But what happens when...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Oct 23, 2011 | Across Cultures, Critical Thinking, Strategy, Zeitgeist
I missed the first 30 minutes of this excellent play on BBC4, which re-imagined the controversy faced by Monty Python over their film, The Life of Brian. It was an hilarious and witty mix of imitation, story telling, satire and flights of fancy. Then I watched a...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Oct 18, 2011 | 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...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Sep 29, 2011 | Coaching, Leadership
Can’t stop checking your e-mails, texts, tweets or facebook status? Then you’re suffering from the modern complaint of new media addiction. These tools are fantastic for speeding up communication and finding new information, but used to excess can be a huge time thief...
