by Keith Coats | May 31, 2019 | Leadership
Every now and then life gives us opportunity to say, “thank goodness that wasn’t me!” – understanding that but for some quirk of fate, it could so easily have been ‘me’. What is regarded as the most epic of all shoelace tumbles happened to one Nick Flynn in...
by Keith Coats | May 7, 2019 | Archive, Leadership, Tuesday Tips
Moving from Tactical Adaptability to Strategic Adaptability – and why it matters: 6 tips to consider as you make the move. Indra Nooyi, the former CEO of PepsiCo, once said that “Every morning you have got to wake up with a healthy fear that the world is...
by Keith Coats | Apr 9, 2019 | Leadership, Tuesday Tips
The Problem: My team aren’t reading…which means we might not be learning! “My team aren’t reading and I fear that will impact on our ability and need to learn” said a CEO to me recently. It is a legitimate concern when one understands the fundamental importance of...
by Keith Coats | Apr 2, 2019 | Archive, Leadership, Tuesday Tips
The Problem: We send ‘our people’ on multiple leadership development programmes and the ‘higher’ up the organisation the more such programmes tend to focus on theoretical content and information. We then expect our people to ‘know what to do with this’ yet all...
by Keith Coats | Mar 19, 2019 | Archive, Leadership, Organisational Development, Tuesday Tips
“Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, it off to work we go” sung Grumpy. Engaging employees is rightly regarded as amongst the most important of leadership challenges. Global surveys by Korn Ferry and others show that having an engaged workforce correlates directly with profitability,...