Coaches and trainers need to recognize that not everyone will respond positively to the prospect of change and some will resist. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” is a well worn phrase. And useful in its place. But there are times when, even though something might not be broken, it might have passed its
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When I left my first job after six months I was told I was making a mistake My first real job out of high school was in the head office of one of Australia’s leading life insurance companies, the Mutual Life and Citizens’ Assurance company or MLC, founded in 1886 as the Citizens’ Assurance Company.
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Yesterday I launched my new personal coaching program for business owners, executives and freelance professionals who are ready to be effective leaders in the new environment of social business. The Social Business Leader Coaching Program will be for no more than 5 people and will include a monthly 90 minute, one-on-one online coaching session, focused
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One of the most creative people I know, Steve Dalton (@spidie on Twitter), interviewed me recently for Coding by Numbers, a podcast site “by developers for developers”, produced by Steve and his colleague Craig Aspinall (@aspinall) . The site is also described on its Twitter page as a “Geek podcast” . We talked mainly about
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Connecting coaching and social media, announcing launch of weekly Twitter #coachchat discussion Regular Twitter users will be aware that several Twitter hashtag chat streams have sprung up, including notably #blogchat about blogging of course, #journchat for journalists and self-explanatory #SmallBizChat. I floated with a few coaches the idea of a #coachchat and have a couple
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