Great Circle

My wife Janine was making a great point the other day. In management herself, she was describing how – as a manager – it’s easy to make the demand that other workers comply with your own pet hates. In other words, those pet hates of the manager begin to take the form of regulations in the workplace. [...]

A senior team leader I’ve enjoyed coaching for the past 3 months was chatting with me about improving the way he ran meetings with his key staff. This had been our main focus for coaching for weeks because he believed (and was subsequently proved correct ) that a small amount of focussed effort on creatively [...]