As we saw last time, if individual coaching rests on enhancing individual strengths, systemic coaching rests on the professional interfacing of those individual strengths. To return to the sporting analogy, a rugby team will achieve greater success by learning how to...
I’d like to spend a little time discussing a relatively new development in coaching: systemic coaching. However, before doing so, let’s take a little detour into the world of sport. Most people in the business world are at least intuitively aware that coaching had its...
A member of a high-performing team is promoted to a new post elsewhere in the organisation in the hope that she’ll help lift the performance of a flagging team. She’ll bring some of the magic she learned in her previous role with her, won’t she? Wrong. The team she...
In 1909, Frederick Winslow Taylor wrote a book entitled The Principles of Scientific Management. The management approach now known as “Command and Control” was born. This has dominated vast numbers of businesses for decades. Taylor’s approach was the first to bring...