What is making you such a chicken?
Within business, many people let their fears prevent them from getting the results they want. People are often put off by things such as public speaking, networking, and making significant changes to their business that could potentially gain them positive results....
Finding your own way
Some years ago we worked with a client who was headhunted by a major retailer. For the sake of this example, let’s call her Helen. She joined the company in a major role in retail operations. Having already had experience of executive coaching in her previous...
The flaws of recruitment
In today’s modern world most recruitment is thorough but, I would argue, fatally flawed. Too much effort is put into the ‘process’ of recruitment and precious little focus is put on the support mechanism, an appropriate induction, under development of a clear vision...
Challenging the chicken…
I remember the client case we took on in 2010 when a new hire was four months into his tenure in a very high profile role where delivery was paramount. We’d been brought in as a last ditch attempt to prevent him being fired and the merry-go-round of re-recruitment...
Is the Honeymoon period over for you?
An internal study of 20,000 executive searches performed by global executive search company Heidrick & Struggles found that 40 per cent of executives hired at the senior level are pushed out, fail or leave within 18 months of their start date. This study and the...
Changing for the better…
Let’s be honest, we don’t always cope well with change. For many people, the bigger the change, the bigger problem. If you agree then making the transition of moving into a new role a different department or a brand new organisation can be a stressful experience....