Cultural Intelligence: Head, Body and Heart – and More!

Across Cultures

Are you grappling with a cultural puzzle? Then I heartily recommend this article from the Harvard Business Review by Christopher Earley and Elaine Mosakowski, which I find to be very much in sympathy with my approach to working across cultures. The article identifies...

Who’s your Strategy Hero?

Strategy

Strategy is all about choice and we can look to some useful role models who typify three different strategies; Masterly Inaction, Revolution and Game Change. Your coach can help you choose. 1. Masterly Inaction Fabius Maximus, known as the Procrastinator, was a Roman...

Choosing an Executive Coach – accreditation?

Coaching

Deciding whom to work with when you are looking for an executive coach remains difficult. In 2004 The Harvard Business Review wrote about the “Wild West of Coaching”, noting that there were few barriers to entry, few quality controls and few ways for clients to check...

It is what it is

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...

Creative Vectors Coaching: Coaching defined

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...