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Centre for Coaching teams up with Lead SA for Mandela Day Leadership Development Project

Celebrating the leadership spirit of Madiba, the Centre for Coaching at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business and Lead SA formed a partnership to offer free coaching sessions to emerging leaders on Mandela Day this year. As organisations and individuals across South Africa and the rest of the world turned out to do their 67 minutes of good this Mandela Day, the Centre for Coaching at the UCT GSB turned its attention to what it does best – helping others to succeed through coaching. In partnership with Lead SA, the centre facilitated a series of one-on-one coaching sessions tailored for [...]

Centre for Coaching teams up with Lead SA for Mandela Day Leadership Development Project2018-04-05T17:55:14+02:00

THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN COACHING (6): Dealing with a massive business crisis

Janine Everson, Director of the Centre for Coaching, explores in this sixth interview of a seven part series on The Secrets of Success in Coaching: “Dealing with a massive business crisis”. In this example of exceptionally powerful coaching, Janine explores the case of dealing with a massive business crisis. Often in a crisis the temptation is to go it alone, fix it yourself. In this example, Janine explores how coaching helped a very senior executive identify and engage the support of others during a massive crisis, helping them get through, successfully. You will find a full transcript of the interview below.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBnfYLOiX4g [...]

THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN COACHING (6): Dealing with a massive business crisis2018-04-05T17:55:14+02:00

THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN COACHING (5): How can you dissolve conflict through active listening?

Janine Everson, Director of the Centre for Coaching, explores in this fifth interview of a seven part series on The Secrets of Success in Coaching: “How can you dissolve conflict through active listening?”. Competitive listening is often a source of conflict. In this interview, Janine explores what drives that conflit and how to identify it. She also gives a clear outline of how to listen actively, which will build collaboration and genuine one plus one makes three situations, giving rise to richer conversations and allow us to achieve more. You will find a full transcript of the interview below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8nZV5Y-fwk     [...]

THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN COACHING (5): How can you dissolve conflict through active listening?2018-04-05T17:55:14+02:00

THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN COACHING (4): Dealing with a poor individual performer

Janine Everson, Director of the Centre for Coaching, explores in this fourth interview of a seven part series on The Secrets of Success in Coaching: “Dealing with a poor individual performer”. In this example of exceptionally powerful coaching, Janine explores in the fourth interview the case of dealing with poor individual performance and where it stems from. Very often it's not the poor performer that is the source of the problem. Often it's something the leader is doing or not doing that is causing people to lose interest or to have a problem. You will find a full transcript of the interview below.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbvZAx9g2Ug [...]

THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN COACHING (4): Dealing with a poor individual performer2018-04-05T17:55:26+02:00

THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN COACHING (3): How to develop leaders in the most effective way?

Janine Everson, Director of the Centre for Coaching, explores in this third interview of a seven part series on The Secrets of Success in Coaching: “How to develop leaders in the most effective way?”. One of the biggest challenges facing leaders today is not what you learn, but how you bring what you learn alive and useful into your life. In this third interview, Janine explores this and how to develop leaders in the most effective way, with a powerful example from an industrial setting. You will find a full transcript of the interview below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU4acIlm8xQ   Daniel Schwenger: Hello from the [...]

THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN COACHING (3): How to develop leaders in the most effective way?2018-04-05T17:55:26+02:00

Mandela Day: True leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders

We’re inviting you, as a member of the international coaching community, to be part of a very special leadership development project this Mandela Day. Mandela Day was launched in recognition of Nelson Mandela’s  birthday on 18 July, 2009 via a unanimous decision of the UN General Assembly. It’s intent is to inspire a movement of volunteers who seek to better the world. Mandela Day asks that you donate 67 minutes of your time to a good cause in honour of Nelson Mandela’s birthday and to recognise the 67 years of his life that he devoted to the struggle for social justice and equality. The [...]

Mandela Day: True leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders2018-04-05T17:55:26+02:00

THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN COACHING (2): The secret to making coaching more affordable

Janine Everson, Director of the Centre for Coaching, explores in this second interview of a seven part series on The Secrets of Success in Coaching: “The secret to making coaching more affordable”. In this second interview, Janine looks at how to make coaching more affordable for organisations, including some innovative examples. You will find a full transcript of the interview below.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0X_HDaP2qE     Daniel Schwenger: Hello from the Dukascopy TV studio in Geneva. We’re talking about the Secrets of Success in Coaching, and in particular, how to make coaching more affordable for organisations with Janine Everson from the Centre [...]

THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN COACHING (2): The secret to making coaching more affordable2018-04-05T17:55:26+02:00

THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN COACHING (1): What a successful coaching strategy should look like for an organisation

Janine Everson, Director of the Centre for Coaching, explores in this first interview of a seven part series on The Secrets of Success in Coaching: “What a successful coaching strategy should look like for an organisation”. In this series, The Secrets of Success in Coaching, Janine covers topics such as “The secret to making coaching more affordable”,  “Developing leaders in the most effective way”, “Examples of exceptionally powerful coaching” or “The secret to dissolving conflict through active listening”. In this first interview, Janine looks at what common mistakes companies make when integrating coaching into business strategy, and explores what ingredients a successful coaching [...]

THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN COACHING (1): What a successful coaching strategy should look like for an organisation2018-04-05T17:55:26+02:00

Internal Coaching: improving employee retention and making coaching more affordable

By Janine Everson and Craig O’Flaherty, Directors of the Centre for Coaching, UCT Graduate School of Business Only a decade or so has passed since leading organisations began to access and integrate the modality of coaching into the running of their organisations. As with all new trends, there are always early-adopters, those who take the risk to experiment with a fresh application and make their mistakes until the impact starts to show — and the experimental phase is now over. “Organisations are starting to understand the power of a blended model — where both external and internal coaches can [...]

Internal Coaching: improving employee retention and making coaching more affordable2019-06-28T17:43:41+02:00
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