Here are some great links that you might have missed:
Strengthscope have a great profile tool for individuals and teams.We use it extensively with our executive coaching and leadership team clients. It is a highly effective and accurate profiler that provides a high quality report and promotes a new dialogue with our clients around their strengths in a work-setting.
The language of strengths is new to some, e.g. in one recent piece of coaching with senior managers in a large back-office services company, we noticed it's promotion of and reliance on lean and sigma-based tools with its own clients was so strong that its own managers had little or no vocabulary to describe their strengths and talents. They were eloquent on their weaknesses and almost silent on their strengths!
Adjusting the balance of conversations towards strengths and talents with leaders can radically alter their view of themselves and, critically, their colleagues; leading to fresh insights, improved relationships and enhanced leadership team outputs and outcomes.
The strengths profile and a personalised feedback sessions are highly cost and time-efficient. We can provide both as a package, over the 'phone and email at a time to suit you.
Miles Downey has a new blog-post with a simple yet highly persuasive idea to get us moving, becoming 'unstuck', through creating multiple views of ourselves rather than having single views that can lead us into becoming stuck in our ways, i.e. I am the way I am.
http://mylesdowney.com/2012/06/12/i-am-the-way-i-am/
At Optimum Interventions and The Open Channel, coaching with clients to help them become 'unstuck' is a key feature of our work. We really do appreciate that leaders can and do reach points in their careers where they are both successful yet at the same time in a dangerous position. They are at risk of becoming one-paced in terms of their style, impact and in the perception of others. They risk being outmanoeuvred by fleet-of-foot competitors and rivals who are actively developing their approaches; risking 'failure' to become more adept and agile in their responses to rapidly changing contexts. Coaching can help to unearth new insights and shape fresh directions or responses at just the right time, in an atmosphere of supporting challenge.
Check out what we can offer in executive coaching at both of our sites:
http://www.theopenchannel.co.uk
http://www.optimuminterventions.co.uk
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Miles Downey has a new blog-post with a simple yet highly persuasive idea to get us moving, becoming 'unstuck', through creating multiple views of ourselves rather than having single views that can lead us into becoming stuck in our ways, i.e. I am the way I am.
http://mylesdowney.com/2012/06/12/i-am-the-way-i-am/
At Optimum Interventions and The Open Channel, coaching with clients to help them become 'unstuck' is a key feature of our work. We really do appreciate that leaders can and do reach points in their careers where they are both successful yet at the same time in a dangerous position. They are at risk of becoming one-paced in terms of their style, impact and in the perception of others. They risk being outmanoeuvred by fleet-of-foot competitors and rivals who are actively developing their approaches; risking 'failure' to become more adept and agile in their responses to rapidly changing contexts. Coaching can help to unearth new insights and shape fresh directions or responses at just the right time, in an atmosphere of supporting challenge.
Check out what we can offer in executive coaching at both of our sites:
http://www.theopenchannel.co.uk
http://www.optimuminterventions.co.uk
Thanks for reading this blog. Why not comment or click on the Follow button before you leave.
