Following on from the last post on Why It’s Better, And More Accurate, To Give Positive Feedback, here’s a format for doing just that. We’re more used to giving details about what people did wrong. When people do things right, the…
Why It’s Better, And More Accurate, To Give Positive Feedback
Objective appraisal is impossible Although feedback is famously “the breakfast of champions”, nobody likes getting negative feedback. Now a new book, Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World, by management researcher Marcus Buckingham and SVP…
The Human Cost Of Change, And How To Reduce It
Rising levels of stress and depression The business bestseller lists are full of books about how to embrace change. Silicon Valley companies are lauded for disrupting traditional business models. “A game-changer” is about the most complimentary thing you can say…
Free Online Collaboration Tools Compared
While designing my Practical Appreciative Inquiry online course pilot (now concluded, but email me if you are interested in the full-featured course that I’ll be launching soon), I auditioned various virtual whiteboard tools for online collaboration. These can be very…
Free Practical NLP ebook this weekend!
My well-reviewed little ebook Practical NLP: How to use NLP principles to improve your life and work, even if you’re not NLP trained is FREE today, tomorrow and Sunday! (8-10 February 2019) “I REALLY enjoyed this book! I’ve always had an interest…
The Problem With ‘Visionary’ Leadership
As I write, it’s ‘Fat Cat Friday‘ in the UK. January 4th the day when the chief executives of FTSE 100 companies have already earned as much as the average salary of their workers. Acclaimed author Yuval Noah Harari talks…
The IKEA Effect: How To Use It For Staff Engagement
A series of experiments at Harvard Business School by Michael Norton, Daniel Mochon, and Dan Ariely, found that people value products more when they have put work into assembling them. In one experiment, participants each assembled an item of IKEA…
Why Coaching With Compassion Works Better Than Coaching For Compliance – The Neuroscience Of Coaching
Coaching Works – But What Kind Of Coaching? It’s fairly well established that coaching works. For example, a meta-analysis of studies of workplace coaching in 2015 shows a strong positive effect on individual performance, and smaller but still positive effects on…
What Executives Get Wrong About Coaching
A study published in the Harvard Business Review by Leadership professor Julia Milner and management consultant Trenton Milner has revealed that most executives don’t really know what coaching is. It’s worth looking at what experts generally define as coaching. These descriptions…
Practical Appreciative Inquiry Training in London UK 2018!
I’m pleased to announce a new Practical Appreciative Inquiry facilitator training in Hackney, London, on 8-9 October 2018! Click here for full details and how to book. It’s a joint venture with Hackney CVS, so it’s a rare opportunity to…