We are pleased to announce that Søren Raaschou of "posility aps" in Denmark is our newest CoachingOurselves licensee, offering CoachingOurselves to the Danish market. Søren is a specialist in project-management and an external professor mentoring MBA students at Aalborg University.
David Crisp, of Crisp Strategies, Inc, is a consultant in personal and leadership effectiveness who also blogs about leadership development issues. Dave asserts that effective leaders are those who consistently share knowledge and experience, and suggests how CoachingOurselves could contribute to leadership in your company.
Let’s face it: feedback is usually painful. We’re uncomfortable giving feedback and even more uncomfortable receiving it. Defensiveness, frustration, embarrassment… they’re all part of the human experience… and too often the performance review experience. But Marshall Goldsmith is known for his communication techniques and has developed a simple, effective way of giving and receiving feedback, honing this in practice with over 10,000 employees of companies.
Listen to part I of an interview with Henry on Falling Fruit TV. Henry discusses today’s conscious business movement, what a balanced society would look like and the role of responsible business. Falling Fruit is a new generation media network that “exists to inform, empower, and connect global change agents”. Their “Conscious Business” program highlights the leaders, strategies, and conditions that are driving today’s conscious business movement.
Media Contacts ("MC"), which is the global interactive media network of Havas Digital, has chosen CoachingOurselves as their new management development program. Their program was recently launched by David Creelman, head of Creelman Research in Toronto and an editor for HR.com. David also brings his years of consulting experience and insight to our team of CoachingOurselves authors.
We welcome Pharos HR AS as our newest CoachingOurselves international partner. Pharos began as a consulting firm in 1992 and works mainly with IT-related assignments, also serving as managers-for-hire.
This partnership was celebrated at "Kakefest 2008" and Lars Groth, our colleague in Norway, sends us a photo of the cake. (The cake comes from from the famous patisserie Pascal in Oslo.)
Read a recent interview with Henry Mintzberg in the Montreal French language newspaper “La Presse”. Henry discusses his experiences in creating innovative, alternative MBA programs which rely primarily on the exchanges between managers. He explains how the CoachingOurselves program takes this philosophy to its natural conclusion.
We’re pleased to announce our newest CoachingOurselves customer: the Inverclyde Community Health Partnership in Scotland. The Inverclyde CHP manages a wide range of local community based health services and is part of the National Health Service.
お祝い J.Feel! (Translation: Congratulations J.Feel!)
"Too many pressures! Not enough time!"
Sound familiar? But how to rise above this?
In "Dealing With the Pressures of Managing", Henry Mintzberg revisits the realities of managing. Forget the myth of the manager as an organized, systematic planner; management is inherently fast-paced, full of interruptions, and fragmented. Managers spend most of their time dealing with crises. (Does this sound familiar?) But how to deal with the unique challenges of "this most demanding of jobs"? How to think - let alone think ahead - amidst the chaos?
