Introduction After working with team leaders and teams for 20+ years, I have developed a simple blueprint for working with teams. It begins with a conversation where team members are challenged to face up to the key questions surrounding identity that I outline in Start With Who (2022): Who are they currently being? Who do...
January. The time for New Year Resolutions. Or not. It used to be that making resolutions was the fashionable thing to do: Set specific measurable, actionable, relevant, time-based goals and then go and get them done. Simple. However, the limitations of this rational, almost scientific approach to target setting and goal achievement soon became...
One of the key differentiators of the Newfield Coach training program is that it is grounded in a rigorous and substantive theoretical framework – Ontology, the study of ‘being’. When a leader is said to have ‘presence’, it is his or her ‘way of being’ that is being referred to. To clarify what ‘being’ is...
Chalmers Brothers is a best-selling author, certified personal / executive coach, consultant, seminar leader and speaker. He has had 32-year career focused on leadership development, workplace culture, productivity and accountability, teamwork and clarity in communication, emotional intelligence, trust- and relationship-building. He is one of our trainers in The Coach Partnership Newfield Ontological Foundations program....
You may be familiar with the old Aesop fable about the Hare and the Tortoise. Simply put, it tells the story of a race between the two animals. The hare is overconfident in its abilities and sprints off at the start, before deciding to take a nap. On waking up, the hare sprints off to...
http://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-gcse-and-a-level-students-could-be-told-what-is-on-their-exam-papers-in-advance-12354383 This news article caught my attention yesterday. Before you read any further, notice your own reaction to the headline. I have shown this headline to a number of people over the last 24 hours and the reaction has been very consistent. The reaction is to have a point of view about it … and...
Your life happens in conversation. Sometimes that conversation is private (in your head) and sometimes it is public, either with one other person or with many people at the same time. To a greater or lesser degree, your ability to manifest your life’s purpose or create what you want to achieve in the next meeting...
Today, February 4 is World Cancer Day, which aims to increase cancer awareness and encourage it’s prevention, detection and treatment. With this in mind, we would like to highlight one of our esteemed graduates who has truly touched the lives of so many. Dr. Kesavan is one of Singapore’s leading urological surgeons and tumor immunologists,...
