This blog takes a look at the impact of the virtual world on team leaders. If you feel you may be losing the right to lead, it may be because your team is leading you!

After several years of working with teams to help them increase their effectiveness, we’ve noticed how some continue to thrive post the engagement with us, and others stall completely. Some continue the learning and some retreat back to working in silos, in the months following a team development program.

What makes the difference?

What is Team Coaching?

We are looking for teams to help us in our quest… and for those few selected to join forces with us on that journey - there’s a very substantial benefit!

Trust – what is it? How do you know when you find it? Why is it relevant?

Trust is defined as ‘The firm belief in the reliability, truth, or ability of someone or something’. It seems to be in very short supply at the moment.

As team coaches we recognise it’s importance in building cohesive effective teams.

So, what if it is on the decline and or absent in a team? Can it be repaired or rebuilt? I believe it can.

Read my blog for some practical steps that can be taken to rebuild trust.

Giving feedback to a staff member can be stressful, particularly when it is of the corrective variety.

Unsurprisingly, without training, practice and experience, this so-called management 101 requirement is fraught with unforeseen responses and/or emotion, which in turn results in short or sometimes, long lasting unease between parties.

Before someone can be a great leader of others they must have ‘cleaned up their own act’ [or at least be consciously working on it] so it doesn’t get in the way of being the best leader possible.

The clients we work with would rarely hear me draw parallels between the success of sports teams and that of leadership teams in business. But in the case of Jürgen Klopp, I’d make an exception. Many of you will know that Klopp’s leadership of the Liverpool Football team has been transformational for the club, setting new standards in the world of professional football management. The world of business could do well to take note.

In over a decade of working to place new executives and then coaching others post commencement, I’ve come to realise that the first 100 days isn’t really enough - it takes at least six months!

It’s a question on everyone’s mind at the moment and I thought that Brendon Burchard’s Top Practices to handle difficult times had some very useful points in managing our responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.