Leadership Coach David Ferrers

How to Spot a Good Leader

Leadership Coach, David Ferrers — Sat, 22 May 2010 08:08:53 +0000

As you have probably worked out by now I am a member of the University of Surrey Leadership Academy. The part of the Academy in which I do my research is an Action Learning Set. In this Action Learning Set a group of leaders and leadership coaches and trainers work together to develop ways that [...]

How a Leadership Coach Will Benefit You

Leadership Coach, David Ferrers — Sat, 08 May 2010 18:35:45 +0000

This website contains a great deal of information about how a leadership coach will benefit you and your organisation. The best way to find out more is to actually experience working with a leadership coach. All you have to do is call the freephone number on the left and you will come straight through to [...]

Will A Leadership Coach Improve Our Bottom Line?

Leadership Coach, David Ferrers — Sat, 08 May 2010 09:40:56 +0000

I am often asked, “what difference will it make to our profitability if we hire a leadership coach?” My answer is always the same, “leadership coaching can improve individual and team performance. If your objectives are correctly set this will improve output. When output improves it should impact on your bottom line.” The key to [...]

Leadership Coaching in Large Organisations – the Big Benefit

Leadership Coach, David Ferrers — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:53:34 +0000

The really important benefit of leadership coaching in a large organisation is the increase in productivity that the coaching usually creates. In this article I will show you how this benefit is created, but first… The Fatal Assumption It is often assumed that management and leadership are the same. They most definitely are not. Management [...]

Leadership Coaching Transforms Bad Tempered Production Manager

Leadership Coach, David Ferrers — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:38:30 +0000

A few months back I was asked to provide leadership coaching to a production manager. This engineer was highly regarded by his employers as an effective problem solver and determined achiever of results. However, he was seen as a “pusher” rather than a “leader”. At our first meeting I was immediately struck by the manager’s [...]

Leadership Coaching Benefits

Leadership Coach, David Ferrers — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:39:22 +0000

The great benefit of leadership coaching is that real change is very likely to result. This is because coaching is participative. People tend to learn better and thus adopt new, improved leadership habits more easily, when they are actively engaged in the learning process. Just sitting, listening to someone talking about leadership theory or practice [...]

The Communication Cycle Step 6 – Improve

Leadership Coach, David Ferrers — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:35:14 +0000

One of the points that differentiates you from a machine is that you can improve of your own volition. You don’t have to be programmed by an outside agent. If you don’t have that urge to improve, to make more of yourself, you may as well be a machine. Once you have worked your way [...]

Self-awareness an Important Key to Developing Leaders

Leadership Coach, David Ferrers — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:05:19 +0000

I just read a most interesting and thought-provoking article on the HR Ringleaders Blog. The title of the article is Self-Awareness Powers Great Leadership. The point that the author makes is that, even when managers are sent on leadership training courses, they often make little long-term difference to their behaviour. She puts this lack of [...]

The Communication Cycle Step 5 – Analyse, Learn, Change

Leadership Coach, David Ferrers — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:41:00 +0000

This actually happened and it’s so dumb you’re going to find it hard to believe. I want you to imagine a business that turns over around three and a half million a year. It employs 30 managers and about 200 staff. They have some 400 customers. On the board of directors there’s a non-executive director [...]

The Communication Cycle Step 4 – Feedback

Leadership Coach, David Ferrers — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:32:36 +0000

The motivation guru Anthony Robbins once said: “feedback is the breakfast of champions.” It is. Of course, it can sometimes be hard to accept feedback, especially when people are telling us “home truths” that we may not want to hear. But we should always listen to feedback. You need to accept that occasionally people are [...]