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Communication, HR, Leadership, Leadership Development, Learning & Development, Organisational Development

How to Get Big Results When Time and Money are Tight

I was working with a client who had a huge budget for development, leaders who were champing at the bit to engage with the development programme, and an Executive Team that was excited to be walking the walk, not just talking the talk. And then I woke up. Yes, we can all dream of these perfect circumstances when it comes to developing leaders in our organisations. The reality is usually quite different. I’ve been there myself — convincing CEOs and Finance Directors that effective ...

Communication, HR, Leadership, Leadership Development, Learning & Development, Organisational Development

How Long Should a Leadership Development Programme Be?

How do you decide how long your leadership development programmes should be? This is a challenge in many organisations, and there are usually two deciding factors involved: The budget you have available for the specific programme How many days you think leaders will be prepared to invest in attending the workshop(s) If you’re like most HR and L&D professionals I meet, you already recognise that – usually – neither the budget nor the time available are sufficient to really get ...

Coaching, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Development

Why We Shouldn’t be Developing Leaders as Coaches

I ran my first coaching skills programme for leaders way back in 1992. At that time the concept of managers coaching was still new, the GROW Model for coaching was a bit ‘out there’ and I recall lively debates around whether or not coaching was a good thing. In the intervening years, coaching has become a flourishing industry and managers are expected to coach peers and bosses as well as team members. Sometimes, they’re even encouraged to coach themselves! But ...

Communication, Leadership

3 Simple Strategies for Engaging Managers in Development Programmes

It’s frustrating, isn’t it?You’ve invested time and budget in designing a high-impact development programme for managers in your organisation only to have a raft of last-minute cancellations or managers who just fail to turn up on the day.It’s a problem for many of the HR & L&D teams I work with. Despite carefully identifying a development need, creating the right development solution and sending reminder email after reminder email, too often there seems to be a yawning gap between your intentions ...

Communication, Leadership

3 Common Beliefs that are Crippling the Way Your Leaders Communicate

It’s hard to find an organisation that doesn’t need – and want – to improve the way leaders communicate. Whether the goal is to improve performance, increase employee engagement or create a safer working environment, better communication will be part of the solution. This solution will often include building leaders’ communication skills through a series of workshops and coaching programmes. It’s a practical approach that can bring powerful results. To get the best return on your investment in such development ...

Communication, Leadership, Performance Management

How to Help Leaders Fall in Love with Performance Reviews

In my last blog post I promised to share some findings from our research into how HR can make Annual Performance Reviews something that people really want to engage with. And I also promised I’d tell you about a webinar where you can find out more. The details of the webinar are at the end of this post, but let’s talk about the research findings first. Since the start of the year, we’ve been talking to leaders, to HR teams and to ...