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…
First Order And Second Order Change: Understanding The Difference
Understanding the difference between First- and Second-Order Change in organisations, and how to recognise when each is appropriate One reason that so many organisational change initiatives fail is that the leaders and consultants involved don’t recognise the difference between ‘first-order’…
Caitlin Moran On Sorting Out Problems
“Joy is not a luxury that you can tack on when you’ve sorted everything out, joy is how you will sort out your problems” – Caitlin Moran
Why You Shouldn’t Waste Your Money Sending Your Jerk Executive On An Emotional Intelligence Course
Anyone who runs emotional intelligence training courses for managers will recognise the type. The guy (and it usually is a guy) who has been sent on the course by his boss because, basically, he has the emotional intelligence of a…
Four Essential Questions For Coaching Yourself Or Others
Why some coaching questions can do more harm than good Coaching, if we follow Sir John Whitmore’s definition that it’s “helping people to learn rather than teaching them”, is about asking questions to help the ‘coachee’ find their own answers and…
Iain McGilchrist On The Divided Brain
Here’s an intriguing animation of psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist talking about the two hemispheres of the brain and summarising the ideas in his book The Master And His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. The video packs…
An Appreciative Inquiry Book List
Introductory Books The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry by Sue Annis Hammond Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution In Change by David L Cooperrider and Diana Whitney ‘Heavyweight’ books about AI Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: for Leaders of Change by David L Cooperrider,…