As a coach, I am exposed to a wide variety of people and issues, and one of the issues that I feel is holding far too many people and companies back, is that they are amazing at identifying problems, but very few come prepared to discuss the solution. I have been working with two extremely large multi nationals in the natural resources sector and I can see that I could really make a difference if they would only be open to being solution focused and open minded to other ways

In my role as an executive coach, I am exposed to many challenges faced by leaders across many industries and at many levels, yet 1 factor continues to raise itself, and that is of Micro Managing. I call this “Playing in someone else’s sandpit”, and almost always ends in a failure – Bust. The question remains, why do senior leaders feel the need to play in someone else’s sand pit. There are many reasons, but 5 of the more common factors are; Lack confidence in oneself. Ins

I was coaching a group of leaders within a large multi national mining company and I was speaking with one of the up and coming Supervisors on the job. Being a mining company, and standing in the mining pit, there were plenty of rocks and stones around us. This specific supervisor was seeking guidance on how to be a better leader and he knew the role I was playing with his boss. Developing and coaching indigenous people needs to be relative, so I used the resources around

Being an executive, and life coach is all about helping people be at their best both professionally and personally on a sustainable basis. I am often called in by organisations to assist and coach employees that are either on a Performance Improvement Plan, (PIP) or at a minimum, are under performing. It is easy to blame the employee, or the junior leader for failing to deliver, and this is usually the first port of call for many, however, does this truly reflect what is ha

I was conducting coaching with a senior leader in a large multinational organisation, and a leading company in their field, and we were discussing why people are just not making decisions. As we dug deeper into work related examples, it became clear that the workplace culture of the company for the past 20+ years has been that the CEO makes all the decisions and no one else. People could suggest, but the CEO had the ultimate control. This created a culture of fear to make