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Coaching - The One Leadership Skill that is as Essential as an Engineer’s Screwdriver

Coaching - The One Leadership Skill that is as Essential as an Engineer’s Screwdriver

It is probably not a surprise when I say that the best leaders have a range of skills and tools that they can deploy at any one time. The key to leadership is to have as many tools as then to know when to use each tool. If your management skills were a real toolbox, then there is one skill that...

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How to be a better leader every single day - My Nine Top Tips for ‘Every Day’ Coaching

How to be a better leader every single day - My Nine Top Tips for ‘Every Day’ Coaching

Coaching is not just an activity consigned to the training room or your office, or something that takes hours each month. 'Every day' coaching is a habit you can do every single day. Opportunities to coach your team, improve their performance and develop their independence, come to you many...

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Peer Groups - Why Ten Heads Are Better Than One

Peer Groups - Why Ten Heads Are Better Than One

As an MD I was in two different types of peer groups, Vistage and The Alternative Board and I found them invaluable to me as a leader. I know am fortunate to run the Yorkshire branch of the Manufacturers Alliance, helping develop manufacturing leaders across the county. Read on the find why I...

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Five Killer Questions to ask your prospective coach

Five Killer Questions to ask your prospective coach

When I ran a successful Bradford manufacturing business, I knew that I was underperforming in some areas. I knew I needed a coach, a critical friend, to push me forward and help me perform even better. I took recommendations from friends and colleagues and interviewed three prospective coaches....

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Community Coaching Conference in York hits the mark

Community Coaching Conference in York hits the mark

I recently attended an inspiring conference, bringing together community coaches and others who use coaching to benefit the communities in which they live and work

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Why I love manufacturing. Or, how pickled onions changed my life

Why I love manufacturing. Or, how pickled onions changed my life

In the 1970s, I was introduced to manufacturing in my Grandad's pickle factory. My lifelong love affair with manufacturing started here. As I approach my 30th anniversary of working in manufacturing, the excitement of making things in factories has stayed with me all my working life. The idea...

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