I have been coaching two business partners lately and they wouldn’t mind me saying that they are different personalities in every way. I think, in a lot of ways, this is their strength as a pairing, because these dynamics provide checks and balances and diverse ways of looking at things, but as with all relationships, […]
Category: Team Building
The 7 Deadly sins of training
I have been in the corporate world for most of my professional career. Just before I branched out on my own, I was the Organisational Development lead for a multimillion- pound IT programme protecting a multibillion-pound government asset. I had in my portfolio the Culture, Capability and Resilience of both the IT and the Programme […]
The Away Day/Team Building Conundrum
Back when I was a Learning and Development Business Partner, I met with a manager from one of my client areas to discuss the training plans for his team. Beaming me a big smile, he opened with, “I want to take them to a cook school!” “Right,” I said beaming right back at him ‘“Tell me about […]