The Hass Business School study I referred to last time ingeniously studied the relationships between high-powered individuals and team cohesion, creativity and collaboration. And in each of these areas, findings were pretty unambiguous: teams composed of high-powered...
When leaders want to make their organisations more efficient in realising strategic goals, many of them resort to behaviourist, carrot-and-stick approaches. However, there’s a big problem: despite all the scientific-sounding talk of “measurable” KPIs and clearly...
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...