One of the biggest impediments to team performance occurs when there is a mismatch between the leadership style and behaviours the team needs and those that the leader and the team default to. The word default is appropriate because there is usually an unconscious process of adaptation, which may be driven by: Having a language...
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The Abilene effect (where a solution is adopted that no-one really favours, but no-one feels sufficiently opposed to, to go against the majority) happens remarkably frequently, even in high performing teams. It is actually quite easy to prevent, with the use of a simple procedure. The starting point is to discuss the question: “What are...
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Like most human traits, worrying in the normal course of events has benefits, because it raises our awareness of real or potential threats. Compulsive worrying, however, can cause unnecessary stress and have a serious negative effect on performance. At extreme levels, where the person is, for example, unable to make choices or leave the house,...
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While most textbooks refer to the coaching conversation as if it were a single, discrete dialogue, in practice both coach and client carry out reflective dialogues in their minds before, during and after the spoken conversation. Each of these additional dialogues has an important role to play in the nature and the effectiveness of the coaching conversation. Within...
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The following are all examples of behaviours by mentees gathered over many workshops, where participants in mentoring have shared their best and worst experiences. These below are the top ten worst. As a mentee ask yourself: Could I be guilty of any of these? Copyright – David Clutterbuck
Massively Difficult Questions (or MDQ's for short....
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There’s a crisis in succession planning. Long one of the bastions of HR credibility, succession planning has a key role in maintaining HR’s strategic credentials. The problem is that evidence for efficacy of the elaborate processes devised to predict which talent to invest in and who should be targeted for promotion is thin at best....
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There is only a relatively small number of mentoring programmes, which have been designed from the start to facilitate mentoring between employees of a consortium of organizations. Some examples, where this has happened, include: The benefits of this kind of mentoring can be considerable. Among them: But there are disadvantages, too. In particular: What should...
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One of my most emotive recollections of mentoring is taking part in a Civil Service programme for disabled staff. One of the participants was a Thalidomide victim. Only partially sighted, with only rudimentary fingers at the end of stumps of arms, he turned the pages of the workshop manual with his tongue. And he fiercely...
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One of the paradoxes of formal mentoring programmes is that the essence of the relationship is its informality – the ability to discuss in private a wide range of issues that will help the mentee cope with and learn from issues s/he encounters, putting aside any power or status differences that might operate outside the...
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