At a time when it’s hard to find any good news when you turn on the TV – Brexit, floods, climate change and more – it’s reassuring to see that finding happiness and joy at work seems to be having something of a ‘moment’. The...
In today’s volatile business world it’s so important for organisations to engage employees. Now, more than ever successful companies - large and small - are deploying coaching and mentoring to improve productivity, increase employee retention and enable succession planning. They are developing cultures so that...
Transforming Our Everyday Conversations with Coaching. We were running an ‘in-house’ course with one of our clients recently and we had one of those great discussions about how we can use a coaching ‘style’ in many of our day-to-day conversations. Many realised that they were probably...
Christmas is a time for giving and as the world of work continues to change at an ever increasing pace, it got us thinking – in this new era, what is the best gift companies could receive in 2019? MENTORING! A gift that is just as...
Autumn has well and truly arrived, and at ECA we are gearing up for a busy period of in-house programmes. It is also a really good time to take stock, to notice how we are working together, what we have achieved, what our own development...
One of the most enjoyable pieces of work I do is to run a postgraduate management and leadership programme through Edinburgh Napier University for members of a trade association. I am privileged to be able to mark their work in which they have to write...
Yesterday marked the achievement of a family milestone as our youngest son passed his driving test. Apart from the shock of hearing how much extra the insurance would cost, and the realisation that when he is out in the evening I won’t sleep until I...
A New Kind of Leadership So it’s now June, my favourite month of the year and my turn for the ECA blog. I was wondering what might be of interest to our followers. Lately my attention has been very focused on Leadership Development, and how we...
On Nov 22nd 1963, the day he was assassinated, President John F. Kennedy was due to give a speech in Dallas warning that America’s leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason. Fifty –five years on, the speech has been recreated and...
This webinar, hosted by the Henley Centre for Coaching, aims to bring together hundreds of coaches from across Europe to hear the results and discuss the impact of the recent European Coaching and Mentoring Research Project. More than 3000 coaches took part across 50 European...