Insight & Influence
Archive | June, 2009

Tips for Coaching Managers

I wrote the short article below for a client’s in-house publication. I resurrect it here after being part of a discussion during an AHRI workshop on the differences between coaches and mentors. My contribution was to the effect that managers shouldn’t try to be a coach (noun) but they certain need to coach (verb). I [...]

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Leader Training – a waste of time and money

I refered to our latest Leading Change Newsletter “Leader Training – A waste of time and money” in a previous blog entry. I thought I’d leave a link here on the blog to make it easy to download. Cheers David

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Leadership Debate

One of my roles outside of Insight & Influence is as the NSW Co-ordinator of the Australian Psychological Society’s Interest Group in Coaching Psychology (IGCP). In this capacity, I organised a public debate between Randal (my partner here at I&I) and Peter Zarris, the National Convenor of IGCP on leadership. The publicity blurb for the [...]

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