Category: Coaching coaches

  • Coaching future leaders

    The more the Glenn P Wallis team coach senior leaders, the more we believe that coaching should also be available at an earlier stage in a leader’s career, especially for those identified as ‘talent’ for future leadership roles. These future leaders would often benefit from improved confidence, greater self-awareness, increased leadership skills and higher role…

  • 6 Ways to improve Bad Behaviour

    “Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.” Philip G Zimbardo The context-specific nature of behaviour Today’s acceptable behaviour may become tomorrow’s abhorrence. It is difficult to make moral judgement about behaviour…

  • How you can lead high performance

    Do you sometimes think that you are too soft in your leadership approach? Are people tending to abuse both your helpful nature and your willingness to give them a second, third or fourth chance? Or are you getting feedback that your leadership style is way too demanding – people might throw around terms such as…

  • Stretch don’t snap

    High performers like to be stretched. Indeed they will push themselves, if you as their leader are not providing sufficient opportunity for them to learn, aim high and ultimately hit it out of the ball-park. There are several areas to be mindful of with these driven types however and it is to those ‘Red Flags’…

  • Me? Exec. development? Of course: Because I’m worth it

    What tends to happen to your own development the more senior you become as a leader? Yep. It tends to be put on the back burner and you – often for very laudable reasons – support everyone else’s opportunity to grab some L&D, before or in the place of you engaging in development for yourself.…