The Communication Cycle Step 5 – Analyse, Learn, Change

by Leadership Coach, David Ferrers

This actually happened and it’s so dumb you’re going to find it hard to believe. I want you to imagine a business that turns over around three and a half million a year. It employs 30 managers and about 200 staff. They have some 400 customers. On the board of directors there’s a non-executive director [...]

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The Communication Cycle Step 4 – Feedback

by Leadership Coach, David Ferrers

The motivation guru Anthony Robbins once said: “feedback is the breakfast of champions.” It is. Of course, it can sometimes be hard to accept feedback, especially when people are telling us “home truths” that we may not want to hear. But we should always listen to feedback. You need to accept that occasionally people are [...]

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Can a Leadership Coach
Turn an Ordinary Manager
into an Effective Leader?

by Leadership Coach, David Ferrers

This is not about anything complicated like turning a sow’s ear into a silk purse. Changing people’s abilities is simply a matter of changing their behaviours. And that is something we do all the time. There is a certain amount of natural ability involved in some physical behaviours. For instance if you weigh 300 pounds [...]

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The 7 Sins That Betray Weak Leaders

by Leadership Coach, David Ferrers

I just read a great article on the Leadership Now blog entitled The Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership. The article highlights the 7 Leadership Sins defined by William Cohen in his book Drucker on Leadership. The 7 sins are clearly defined and should be on every serious leader’s list of sins to avoid because there [...]

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