Ensuring You Gain Tangible Value From Executive And Leadership Coaching

by Chris Sheepshanks on Mar 26, 2025

A leadership coach conducting c suite leadership training with a group of executives in an office.

Investing in executive and leadership coaching for your senior leaders and directors has wide-ranging benefits for your leaders as individuals, and for your wider organisation. However, with various leadership strategies and approaches available, it’s important you choose a developmen …

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Cultivating Teamship Through Your Leadership Development Strategy

by David Webster on Mar 26, 2025

A group of managers working with a business coaching consultancy firm to create a leadership development framework diagram that centres leadership.

Teamship is a powerful strategy for increasing accountability, cohesion, and productivity throughout your teams. Teamship is the synergy that happens when team members work spontaneously and collaboratively towards shared objectives, and is crucial for driving innovation and respondin …

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The Importance Of Developing Clarity Of Purpose In Coaching Teams To High-Performance

by Chris Sheepshanks on Mar 26, 2025

Purpose driven leadership is a corporate leadership strategy that aims to help team members find greater personal meaning in their work. Successful purpose driven leadership helps to align personal and organisational goals and values among your employees to achieve greater quality of …

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Turnover Contagion: Why Strong Teams Stay and Others Walk Away

by David Paice on Mar 20, 2025

The departure of a trusted team member can feel like a seismic shift within an organisation. But beyond the immediate emotional and workload burden, there’s a more insidious risk that leaders often overlook—turnover contagion.

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Topics: Resilience

How do leaders improve team dynamics?

by David Paice on Mar 13, 2025

A plethora of team dynamics on show during a strategy meeting, all having clear roles and accountability to ensure trust.

Different types of dynamics or connecting forces occur in teams. Some are obvious such as the sharing of tasks to complete a goal, some lie under the surface such as the thought someone else in the team is not pulling their weight may foster cynicism and cause people to bear grudges. …

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What drives cohesiveness in a team?

by David Paice on Mar 6, 2025

The chief executive of a fast growth tech company and his now cohesive team after he gained the knowledge on types of interdependence before coaching them.

How can you tell if your team is merely a collection of individuals or a healthy interdependent high performing team? Looking at the results will help. But you can't change those once they've happened. Better to look at what's happening internally to shape the results externally.

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Topics: Team Coaching

When the boss gets fired

by David Paice on Mar 6, 2025

When the boss gets fired

‘My boss got fired today!’ Is that a cue for celebration or concern? What kind of power vacuum has this left and are you now wondering who in your team might get promoted over you? Or worse, will a stranger fill that vacancy?

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Topics: Resilience

Take care of yourself won't you?

by David Webster on Feb 20, 2025

Self care and compassion

The English have an almost automatic instinct when greeting people. We ask, "How are you?"—but often, we don’t actually listen to the response. That’s because the answer is usually just as automatic: "I’m fine, thank you." Even when, in reality, the person is far from fine.

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Topics: Resilience

In Case of Change: Try Optimistic Realism Today

by David Webster on Feb 8, 2025

In case of change: try optimism real;ism

The Tale of Two CEOs: A Fable of Optimism and Pessimism

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Topics: Resilience

How does resilience improve performance?

by David Paice on Jan 23, 2025

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!

“That which does not kill us, makes us stronger” – Nietzsche (1895) Twilight of the Idols. What did he mean exactly and what specifically do we learn from setbacks that equip us to be better and stronger in the future?

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