by Alan Denton | Career Transition, Coaching, Cultivating Talent, Director Development, Education, Financial Services, Legal, Manufacturing, Published Articles, Real Estate, Recruitment, Wealth Management, Women Executives
The annual CEO Success Survey by PWC revealed that CEO turnover at the 2500 largest companies in the world rose from 14.3% in 2014 to 16.6% in 2015—a record high for this study. 58% of the highest-priority hires, new executives hired from the outside, fail in their...
by Alan Denton | Career Transition, Coaching, Cultivating Talent, Director Development, Dynamic Leadership, Education, Financial Services, Legal, Manufacturing, Published Articles, Real Estate, Recruitment, Wealth Management, Women Executives, Workplace
Go on … Prove yourself during the ‘Honeymoon’ In most walks of life there is a ‘honeymoon’ period and, for many years, new leaders and senior executives have had their ‘First three months’. Pressure to deliver in today’s business environment may well have...
by Alan Denton | Career Transition, Coaching, Cultivating Talent, Director Development, Education, Financial Services, Legal, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Recruitment, Wealth Management, Women Executives
How come the importance of a coach on the performance of an Olympic athlete is often not reflected in the business world? An athlete’s sheer determination undoubtedly contributes to victory but it’s important to remember they don’t do it alone. After being questioned...
by Alan Denton | Coaching, Cultivating Talent, Director Development, Dynamic Leadership, Education, Financial Services, Legal, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Recruitment, Uncategorized, Wealth Management
I get asked this question daily. Leadership is open to widely different interpretations and full of confusing ideas and terminology. The descriptions, definitions and examples of leadership vary enormously. We lead when we are first given a supervisory role at work, a...
by Alan Denton | Coaching, Director Development, Dynamic Leadership, Education, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Recruitment, Uncategorized, Wealth Management
So you’ve got to the top, but you’re feeling disengaged from your team. Have you ever considered that this is a matter of your team’s perception of your role and actions? As a leader, people will inevitably look at you in a different light. Your actions will be...
by Alan Denton | Coaching, Director Development, Education, Financial Services, Legal, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Recruitment, Wealth Management, Women Executives
In the seventeenth century, the French statesman Cardinal Richelieu relied heavily on the advice of Father François Leclerc du Tremblay, known as France’s ‘éminence grise’ for his grey monk’s habit. Like the famous cardinal, today’s business leaders have their grey...
