How effective communication can transform the way you lead your teams

Leadership Workout: 6 Ways to Develop your Leadership Muscles - without going to the gym!

01/12/2020

Leadership Workout: 6 Ways to Develop your Leadership Muscles - without going to the gym! “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle People get better when they practice. We’ve all heard the phrase “Practice makes…

Burn out and blackout: Building our resilience

10/11/2020

Burn out and blackout - What are your warning signals? As the days grow shorter, the blackout is coming. It has been a brutal year. How do you and your people recharge your batteries? I was so thrilled to find a jar of Nutella lurking in the fridge (honest – it…

The Coaching Habit: book reviews by my son

03/11/2020

The Coaching Habit, by Michael Bungay Stanier and The Fearless Organisation, by Amy C. Edmondson Recently I recruited Greg Stitt, who is my son, into my coaching business. To help me stay on top of things, I asked him to read and review some books that caught my…

Why Purpose Matters Now More Than Ever…

15/10/2020

There is a reason purpose matters more today than ever. On August 19th, 2019, 181 businesses in the US as part of the Business Roundtable[1] signed up to a new definition of the ‘purpose of the corporation’. At that time Jamie Dimon, chairman of J.P Morgan Chase said,…

The four legs of my sturdy table by Dave Stitt

31/08/2020

I’ve come to understand that my business has four pillars, writes Dave Stitt. Metaphorically speaking, they’re the four legs of a table that can hold the weight of my customers’ aspirations. The four legs are 1) my mindset, 2) marketing, 3) value pricing and 4)…

The natural way to change – become more of who you are

24/07/2020

The natural way to change – become more of who you are A professional coach will interrupt your story, but not your thinking. That’s because coaching is a partnership between the coach and you, the thinker, with the aim being to explore new thinking. New thinking is…