Personal Development | The Leadership Coach™

Innovation Inhibitors

Posted on23. Mar, 2009 by Paul Andrew.

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Leaders often get it backwards. “We need to be more creative”, someone says so we brainstorm ways we can “get people to come up with ideas” to make things better. Let’s have a suggestions box. Conduct an anonymous survey. Make our meetings more fun. Of course in the right environment these can be useful strategies. [...]

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The Spare Time Test

Posted on11. Mar, 2009 by Paul Andrew.

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I write this edition from the Middle East where I’ve been training leaders in Qatar. Last week I was working with Catholic school principals to assist them in becoming coaches to their staff. Both of these diverse groups expressed the same challenge to acting on their priorities (one that I believe is common to leaders [...]

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Think Like Your Successor Would

Posted on16. Feb, 2009 by Paul Andrew.

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In an executive coaching session with a very successful business leader last week I hit on an idea for overcoming a challenge we all face once we’ve been in a leadership role for a while. No matter how well we start, sooner or later there comes a point when we realise we’ve lost perspective on [...]

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Get It Right (The art of conflict resolution)

Posted on02. Feb, 2009 by Paul Andrew.

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Conflict is a fact of life when you lead teams. It can be addressed in a way that minimises the pain that conflict creates for people, leaving the team intact and the focus on the future. On the other hand we’ve probably all experienced the devastating damage that teams are plagued by when they handle [...]

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What’s So New About Your New Year?

Posted on19. Jan, 2009 by Paul Andrew.

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What does it take to make a New Year truly “new”? Besides the date ending with 09 instead of 08 what have you personally brought to this year that is different/ fresh/ bold/ exciting? Why not take a quick inventory right now of the following key areas as a leader, and ask yourself this one [...]

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Look Where You Want To Go

Posted on15. Dec, 2008 by Paul Andrew.

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Snowboarding is one sport that I picked up easily, though not without a few bruises along the way. I’m not a natural sportsman but one piece of advice from a friend on my first day snowboarding made a huge difference. As I twisted my body around and tried hard to force the board to go [...]

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Promote Yourself To CEO

Posted on01. Dec, 2008 by Paul Andrew.

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Whether you lead a small team, a large department or a huge corporation you can promote yourself to CEO. Today. Ok, maybe not Chief Executive Officer, but certainly a different kind of ‘CEO’ to remind you of three essential things you MUST bring to those you lead. I believe every leader should be three people, [...]