By Chris Welford on 10th October, 2024 in Coaching, Development, Wellbeing
Many managers believe that motivating people is their role. They often resort to rewards, incentives, or even charismatic speeches to inspire their employees to perform at their best. However, motivation is profoundly personal and intrinsic—it cannot be sustainably injected from the outside. As business psychologists and executive coaches, we have...
By admingr on 13th March, 2023 in Change, Coaching, Development, Getting Help and Support, Psychotherapy & Counselling, Wellbeing
When it comes to coaching is a blended approach best? Traditionally, coaching and therapy have been seen as two distinct approaches to helping people make positive changes in their lives. Coaching is widely recognised as being one of the most powerful ways in which personal and professional growth can...
By admingr on 12th January, 2023 in Change, Coaching, Development, Exercise, Getting Help and Support, Self-knowledge
Are Your Resolutions Failing Already? For many of us, the promises that we made to ourselves just over a week ago are already looking shaky. By the time we reach the end of this month, around 90% of us will have quietly admitted that the idea of making resolutions...
By Lindsay Pilling on 8th December, 2022 in Coaching, Development, Relationships
Is Yours a Winning Team? As the FIFA World Cup hits fever pitch, you are watching some of the best teamwork around… but what makes up that winning formula and how can we apply it in the workplace? We are asking Is yours a winning team? You’ll be familiar...
By Chris Welford on 21st February, 2022 in Coaching, Development
As we emerge from the pandemic, the recruitment market is red hot. There can’t be many sectors where a severe shortage of skills isn’t a big headache to hiring managers. The temptation can be to cut corners to get bums on seats! We think that’s a risk that’s not worth...
By Chris Welford on 10th November, 2020 in Development, Self-knowledge
Get yourself a notebook or open a new document on your computer and in your own time, reflect on these points: Narrative. Start off by thinking about your personal history, your hopes, dreams and aspirations. Who are you? Where have you come from? Where are you going? Looking back, what...
By Chris Welford on 2nd November, 2020 in Development, Stress and Pressure
Knowing your habitual pattern of response when challenged, pressured or even threatened is as useful as knowing about the basic building blocks of your personality. If you don’t want to live on autopilot or to become the victim of your own destructive drivers, this area of self-knowledge is essential. Even...
By Chris Welford on 6th October, 2020 in Assessment, Development, Psychotherapy & Counselling, Sane Works
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet Ask most people about their development goals and they will reel off a list of weaknesses that they want to...
By Chris Welford on 28th September, 2020 in Development, Psychotherapy & Counselling
How do you develop people in the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world we are currently living in? We think traditional management and leadership development is no longer enough – even if it is being delivered remotely and flexibly. Right now, more than ever in this changing VUCA...
By Chris Welford on 13th August, 2020 in Coaching, Development
HR professionals don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how they get their message across; well not in my experience. All too often there seems to be the assumption that our knowledge and insight should speak for itself or that cursory references to best practice are enough. But there’s...
By Chris Welford on 23rd July, 2020 in Assessment, Development, Sane Works
Surely not – but yes! It’s been a decade. To say that it has flown by would be one huge understatement. Here’s a little birthday card that we have designed. We hope you like it. So, whether you are one of our incredible clients, a supplier of the tools and...
By Chris Welford on 10th June, 2020 in Coaching, Development
Despite the fact that companies will frequently say that ‘our people are their greatest asset’ the reality is that many managers consider people issues to be too ‘woolly’ and not worth spending time on. They often don’t feel that they add value to the real task of doing business. Difficult...
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