by Coaching at Work | Feb 21, 2011 | News |
John Blakey has joined Full Potential Group (FPG) as a managing partner. He joins from leadership transformation company 121 Partners, where he was managing director. He was previously director of IT consultancy, Team121, and was international MD at Logica before...
by Coaching at Work | Feb 21, 2011 | Manager-as-coach, News |
Spotting strengths The essential characteristics of an effective ‘strengthspotter’ have been identified for the first time. According to a study of 528 people by strengths expert Professor Alex Linley, they are: making connections between people and...
by Coaching at Work | Feb 21, 2011 | Book-review |
Title Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing your Career Author Herminia Ibarra Publisher Harvard Business School Press ISBN 978 15913 9413 6 Usefulness 4/5 Although published in 2004, Working Identity has stood the test of...
by Coaching at Work | Feb 21, 2011 | Articles |
Coaching is full of jargon, but in a good way. Learn the language and recognise your own, advises Sue Blow visiting fellow of the Coaching and Mentoring Research Unit at Sheffield Business School We trip over tortured, cliche-ridden language every day. Some of it is...
by Coaching at Work | Feb 21, 2011 | Articles |
An ambitious Australian TV show is proving that happiness can not only be measured, it can easily – and permanently – be improved. Now it hopes to do the same to the rest of the country. Liz Hall discovers how If you type “happiness” into a...