David Ferrers Leadership Coach

Your Questions About Any Leadership Issue Answered Instantly

David Ferrers — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:35 +0000

Do you ever find yourself unsure of the right course of action? In such situations do you ever wish there was someone you could talk things over with in confidence? Let me tell you Tim’s story. Difficult Leadership Issues Managed Successfully Tim’s company had recently taken over a larger, yet somewhat old-fashioned rival. His company wanted Tim, a production [...]

Leaders Are Readers

David Ferrers — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:57:05 +0000

How much do you read? Is it important that you read? I ask these questions because I was browsing around on the Leadership Now blog this morning and I noticed an article headed Build Your Leadership Library. They have 180 titles, all with at least a 40% reduction. I hasten to add that we do not make a penny [...]

How To Use a Compelling Vision to Propel Your Career

David Ferrers — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:33:48 +0000

What compels you to act? What makes it impossible for you to do anything other than obey a compelling internal urge to get up and go? It is always a feeling that you MUST….. But what generates that irresistible feeling? It is always a vision! So, is it possible to create such visions at will? And, if so, can anyone create [...]

Inspire Your Team to Follow Their Leader

David Ferrers — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:24:25 +0000

Are you ever disappointed when your message is misunderstood or, worse still, not acted upon? There are very common reasons for these misunderstandings and I’m about to tell you how to overcome them. But first let’s briefly look at some of the great inspirational speeches and why they had such a profound effect on their audiences. President John [...]

Poor Leadership Blowing It for Conservatives

David Ferrers — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:08:21 +0000

The shocking headline in today’s Sunday Times, “Tory lead plunges to 2 points,” is, if accurate, a reflection on the poor leadership of the Conservative Party. David Cameron and George Osborne are presenting the electorate with a series of wet ideas, presumably based on the latest suggestions of their spin doctors. It is time for these boys [...]

Bullying Helplines

David Ferrers — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:54:35 +0000

Have you ever been the victim of bullying? I’ll bet a pound to a penny that at some time in your life you have been bullied in some way. Bullying is the default mode of the autocratic leadership style that predominates in most organisations from schools to the workplace and even beyond into our retirement years. So [...]

The Communication Cycle Step 1 – Aim

David Ferrers — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:02:59 +0000

All successful leaders develop outstanding communication skills. Jack Welch, when he retired from GE, was immediately able to launch a new career as an author and speaker. Certainly people wanted to hear what such a successful businessman had to say, but he wouldn’t have lasted five minutes if he had not had the skill to express [...]

Types of Leadership Styles

David Ferrers — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:18:59 +0000

With some types of leadership styles a fall is almost inevitable. Here we examine three different types of leadership to ascertain their strengths and weaknesses. Autocratic Leadership Autocracy seems to be the default setting for human beings when they achieve leadership positions. Decide and tell always appears to be the easiest and quickest way to lead. Monarchs [...]

Autocratic Leadership and Followership

David Ferrers — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:10:26 +0000

I found this article on the Project Management Institute blog really interesting because it raises the issues of bad leadership and followership as well as citing examples of both. The concerns about bad leadership, which Dr. Barbara Kellerman highlighted at her leadership forum, are obviously very real. They become ever more relevant in the light of [...]

Why Verbal Communication Often Fails To Deliver The Intended Message

David Ferrers — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:40:18 +0000

“I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” It’s true, not everything we say communicates the intended message to the listener. The diagram on the left shows information entering the ear, being processed by the [...]