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Assessing Future Leaders – the Performance vs. Potential Matrix
Assessing Future Leaders - the Performance vs. Potential Matrix How to determine and assess future leaders, and where and how to focus your efforts in their development. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions You are looking to develop future leaders for your business. How can you do this so that you can consistently evaluate them across the board? What is more important when you evaluate them – their past performance or their future potential? It isn’t an either/or question.
5 Things to Do When Times Are Tough
5 Things to Do When Times Are Tough When the business environment is becoming harder, here are 5 strategies to help you focus your effort, time, resources and investment. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Every few years the business cycle turns down and things get tough. For good business people this is a sign to get going because with competitors struggling, it is a great time to build your business. There are two key areas you need to
Why Is Coaching Becoming More Popular?
Why Is Coaching Becoming More Popular? What is driving the uptake of coaching, and what are its benefits? by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Organizations are increasingly using coaching as a means by which to grow and develop their people and businesses. What is driving this growth? For one thing, the ever-increasing pace of change requires organizational leaders to develop quickly, and in the context of their current jobs. Traditional training programs are often set up to train or
How Executive Coaching Can Help You
How Executive Coaching Can Help You How executive coaching can help you in your business by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Executive coaching is a next evolutionary step in the development of leaders. Historically, leadership development was largely focused on participants’ involvement in training programs. These programs were all based upon one completely invalid assumption—if they understand, they will do. Wrong! In the United States the diet industry is worth about $59 billion per year, with over 50% of Americans
How to Manage Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity
How to Manage Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity - Part 1 When dealing with increased VUCA - volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity - what can leaders do? and how can they manage this on an on-going basis? Read on... by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Businesses are under increasing stress as markets are increasingly volatile, clients are more demanding, talent is scarcer and change occurs in faster and shorter cycles. To survive and thrive business leaders have to make
The Power of Deliberate Mistakes
The Power of Deliberate Mistakes How to benefit from making mistakes and challenging your assumptions. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions A common view is that failure is a bad thing. It implies a lack of success, personal weakness and it makes you vulnerable. None of these things are comfortable, enjoyable or desired and, as such, failure is to be avoided. The problem with this is that the only way you can learn and grow is to fail. It
Leading from the Inside Out
Leading from the Inside-Out What is the difference between an average leader and a great leader - the answer is WHY? by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions In a TED presentation by Simon Sinek a key question was asked – “How can some companies achieve things that others do not, when they have access to the same talent, resources, markets etcetera?” The answer is to this lies in a question. Great leaders focus on the Why?, and not the
Creating Peer Pressure
Creating Peer Pressure How to design and create peer pressure to align people and efforts. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Peer pressure is a useful way to get people to work together. A working definition of peer pressure for the purpose of this is: “Peer pressure is the influence exerted by a peer group or an individual, encouraging other individuals to change their attitudes, values, or behaviours in order to conform to group norms”. In other words, the
Attitude vs. Aptitude
Attitude vs. Aptitude How attitude is the driver of success and how to help people succeed. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions In a previous article, “The Exactitude of Attitude”, we examined the importance of having people not only with the right skills, but the right attitude – and that 46% of new hires fail within the first 18 months on the job. The reason? For 89% of them it is because they have the wrong attitude, and that