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• The Appeal of the Far Right – A Case of Motivated Social Cognition
• Why is spiritual development often spoken about in terms of freedom from ego?
• On the plus side of less efficiency
• Why are English anaesthetists anonymous?
• Decolonisation or Decolonialisation?
• One Size Doesn’t Fit All: The Limitations of Professional Bodies in Coaching
• Why do some men adopt a grandiose, bombastic, persona?
• Contrasting Socratic Questioning with Systemic Questioning
• The role of Systemic Questioning in Coaching
• The role of Socratic Questioning in Coaching
• Book Review – Oliver Burkeman’s “Four Thousand Weeks”
• Finding your purpose in life
• How do you mend a broken heart?
• Paper Candidates and Fake Democracies
• The breakdown of the NHS
• When one corporate policy is at odds with another… and where it is also bad for the planet!
• Where empowerment and micromanagement clash
• How local groups are organised (pt1)
• The trouble with Fish!
• Congruence
• Congruence
• The philosophy of Person-Centred (Humanistic) Psychotherapy
• Power dynamics in coaching, counselling, supervision, management, and teaching…
• What’s the difference between counselling and psychotherapy?
• Gender Expansive Pronouns
• Eclectic, Integrative, and Pluralistic approaches to psychotherapy…
• The difference between supervising internal coaches compared to external ones
• Oh, dear… “What is your modality?”
• The impact of supervision on workplace coaches
• The sound of silence…
• Academic impact… hmmm…
• Turning adversity into opportunity
• The leaders’ challenge: coping with the CV-19 crisis
• Coping with the negative overload (IoD Global – CV19 #6)
• Finding the inner resources for creative, strategic thinking (IoD Global – CV19 #5)
• The end of the world as we know it (and other catastrophic thoughts) (IoD Global – CV19 #4)
• Around the World in Eight Days – (Day 8: London)
• Around the World in Eight Days – (Day 7: New York)
• Around the World in Eight Days – (Day 6: San Francisco)
• Coaching during a recession…
• Around the World in Eight Days – (Day 5: Yokohama)
• Around the World in Eight Days – (Day 4: Hong Kong)
• Around the World in Eight Days – (Day 3: Kolkata)
• Around the World in Eight Days – (Day 2: Mumbai)
• Around the World in Eight Days – (Day 1: Suez)
• War Councils (IOD GLOBAL – CV19 #3)
• At times like this; invest in trust (IOD GLOBAL – CV19 #2)
• Leading in unprecedented times (IoD Global – CV19 #1)
• Coronavirus, Gig Economy, Further Education and Hourly Paid Lecturing
• The IoD Global Convention Singapore 2020
• The EIGHT stages of the Employee Life-Cycle
• MONDAY 2nd March 2020 – THE 144th INFORMAL DRINK IN OXFORD
• New course: Introduction to Reflective Practice and Journaling (Oxford, Jan 2020)
• “Keeping staff in the dark about pay feeds perception of unfairness, new research from the CIPD finds…”
• In the pursuit of productivity…
• Collaboration
• “Introduction to Reflective Practice and Journaling” – Oxford University – Jan/Apr 2020
• “Advanced Coaching” course – Oxford University – Apr/Jul 2020
• “Introduction to Coaching Supervision” course – Oxford University – Jan/Apr 2020
• “Group Coaching” course – Oxford University – Feb/Mar 2020
• “Introduction to Coaching” course – Oxford University – Oct to Dec 2019
• University of Oxford Continuing Education 2019/2020 programme is released!
• Socratic Questioning and the nature of coaching (pt2)
• Socratic Questioning and the nature of coaching (pt1)
• What is this thing called “Critical Analysis”?
• Pay It Forward – How job hunters can make a difference
• The 15 commonest mistakes in CVs
• MONDAY 7th January 2019 – THE 130TH INFORMAL DRINK IN OXFORD
• Job hunting – the single most effective thing to do
• “I’ve been out of work for so long – I’ve just not been that lucky”
• Oxford University – Introduction to Coaching Supervision – Spring 2019
• Masters’ Level (CIPD L7) Human Resources Management Qualification – Sept 2018
• What is it that makes you different?
• Oxford University – Group Coaching Course 2019
• Oxford University – Introduction to Coaching – Autumn 2018 (FULLY BOOKED)
• University of Oxford – Advanced Coaching Course – Summer 2019 *** NOW FULLY BOOKED!
• Spare a penny for the…
• MONDAY 14th MAY 2018 – THE 122nd INFORMAL DRINK IN OXFORD
• MONDAY 9th APRIL 2018 – THE 121st INFORMAL DRINK IN OXFORD
• Clones aren’t always the same
• Monday 5th March 2018 – The 120th Informal Drink in Oxford – OUR TENTH ANNIVERSARY!
• Monday 5th February 2018 – The 119th Informal Drink in Oxford
• Monday 8th January 2018 – The 118th Informal Drink in Oxford
• Are your bum and balls up for some Continuing Professional Development (CPD)?
• A few questions about ‘customer delight’
• How important is quality today?
• RSA Watch Oxford – Changing Society (30 October 2017)
• When “professionals” don’t think twice, and snake oil sales go unchecked…
• Monday 6th November 2017 – The 116th Informal Drink in Oxford
• Monday 2nd October 2017 – The 115th Informal Drink in Oxford
• Monday 4th September 2017 – The 114th Informal Drink in Oxford
• Masters’ Level (CIPD L7) Human Resources Management qualification – Sept 2017
• University of Oxford – Advanced Coaching Course – Summer 2018
• Oxford University – Group Coaching Course 2018
• Oxford University – Introduction to Coaching courses 2017
• RSA Watch Oxford – The Built Environment and the Future (10 July 2017)
• Education and social inequality
• RSA Watch Oxford: Free screening – 4 talks on Inequality and Social Mobility
• An unprecedented product recommendation – does your laptop get a bit hot?
• University of Oxford – Advanced Coaching Course – Summer 2017
• If you insist on launching a survey…
• Climate and Leadership Film Screening – Update
• Climate and Leadership Film Screening – Oxford – 23rd January
• Finding better ‘quality’ information on the internet
• Oxford University – Group Coaching Course 2017
• Am I ever going to write any more books?
• Changing the course of two centuries of carbon-intense development (COP22)
• What are these climate conferences all about? COP22 – Podcast
• Climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience
• What swimming coaching can tell you about… well, life actually!
• Creativity Film Screening and Discussion – Oxford 24/10/16
• Oxford University – Introduction to Coaching courses 2016
• Laying people off? What would their relatives’ impact statements be like?
• Does name dropping really impress or turn people off?
• The challenge of helping people to help themselves
• Possibly the foremost CPD event in the Climate profession’s calendar…
• Masters’ Level Leadership Course in Oxford – 18-20 April 2016
• Positive psychology
• Introducing an after-dinner speaker
• University of Oxford – Advanced Coaching Course – Autumn 2015
• The most motivated businesses are employee-owned – and we told you that 20yrs ago
• The role of LinkedIn in building your network
• Thirty more things to bring to coaching
• Thirty themes for coaching
• BOOK REVIEW- The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring
• Corporate Culture – A literature review (for the ACCA-ESRC)
• The Oxford Launch – November 2014
• New enterprise – preparing the next generation of entrepreneurs – a challenge in leadership development
• BOOK REVIEW: The Leadership Coach (Teach Yourself)
• How long do you need to hold an audience’s attention?
• Idea identification and development – entrepreneurship & accelerated start-ups
• Entrepreneurship and accelerated start-ups – Introduction
• Reputation management, social media, food poisoning and Sy Oliver
• Is the ‘integrationist’ model for coaching a little lop-sided?
• There’s lies, damned lies and statistics…
• Never has spelling been more important
• When selection methods are a waste of time…
• Reflective practice and journaling
• Why is research so important?
• Develop your inner states-person – a guide to journaling
• When you REALLY want the people you work with to read something…
• Help for those returning to work…
• When old business tries to embrace the new
• Never start marketing messages with trite pleasantries
• Should coaching focus firstly on beliefs or behaviour?
• The origin of the term “integrative” in a psychotherapeutic (and by extrapolation, coaching) context
• Russell Brand on being heckled
• Instead of grand dreams, what about your 2014 New Year’s resolutions being a form of succession plan?
• Raising your head above the parapet
• When bullying is just a part of the tool-kit of senior executives
• Book Review: “Coaching Understood – A pragmatic inquiry into the coaching process” by Elaine Cox
• Developing Charisma
• “Management control systems” – catch ’em wrong or catch ’em right?
• How not to follow up
• Is there such a thing as a false anticipation?
• Towards a definition of coaching
• Shoot the marketing assistant (2)…
• Shoot the marketing assistant…
• Is what you are saying about yourself impressing others or merely delusional?
• What does science have to offer coaching?
• RESEARCH NEWS: Does coaching improve performance?
• It ain’t what you do – it’s the way that you say it…
• RESEARCH NEWS: The relationship between emotional and social intelligence and leadership effectiveness
• What is your coaching philosophy?
• Nine out of ten people don’t follow-up
• Learning something new or going through hoops – and for whose benefit?
• The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances
• Human Capital Management – automating the abuse of your most valuable asset
• With the id and super-ego fighting it out, should Prince Albert have played down his recent acquisition?
• Is Paul Gascoigne well advised to go public?
• Global access to your emails
• Banking Reform vs Banking Revolution
• A slightly different perspective on ‘resolutions’
• Planning for the New Year – planning to accomplish something – FREE annual planner
• Improving your impact at a conference or speaker event
• It’s all a question of attitude – a tribute to Zig Ziglar
• The history of the Elevator Speech
• Elevator pitches – engaging others in social talk
• The leadership consequences of the changing relationship between organisations, their employees and their customers
• Sustainability research funding – Is this just a case of Government lip-service?
• What informs your leadership attitudes?
• Leadership – a question of nature or nurture?
• The New Leadership Challenge
• The democratization of institutions
• Observing human behaviour – when we choose to intervene and when we don’t
• A few words about cookies and your responsibility for them
• What’s in a personal value and what are mine?
• It ain’t what you do; it’s the way that you reflect on it
• How to keep in touch with your network
• Dabbling with the minds of leaders and society
• What exactly is an entrepreneur?
• The art of Organisation Development (OD)
• Was Marshall Field really all that wrong?
• Business Book of the Week – Understanding the Small Business Sector – Storey
• How crowd accelerated innovation is transforming the nature of entrepreneurship
• Whatever happened to quiet time? “Because I love the new you.”
• Calling a halt to mindless change – 13 years on, have we learnt the lesson yet?
• Cultivating ‘gravitas’ – What is spirituality?
• How do you facilitate?
• Would you choose a coach for their ‘credentials’ or their personality?
• Calling all INTJ, Sagittarian, IMA High RED, amber memes – it’s time to get REAL (Relevant, Evidenced, Accurate and Logical)
• If this WAS your last day, what WOULD you do?
• Psychotherapeutic treatment can cure Cyclothymic Disorder
• Scapegoating and social media networks
• Feel better – create a scapegoat
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) – What are WE going to do?
• Just how common are mental health problems?
• Zeta-Jones, bipolar, and other high-performance ‘disorders’
• Zeta-Jones is one of many creatives to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but what is it?
• “Why a lack of empathy is the root of all evil”
• Business Book of the Week : The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov
• Digital utopianism and the allure of the internet
• The Personal Branding Phenomenon – distinguish yourself
• The Beauty of Diagrams – The Vitruvian Man – Art, Architecture, Anatomy combined mathematically
• Business Book of the Week : The Khan Academy ‘flips’ education (12/03/2011)
• After greed, is the relentless pursuit of efficiency as damaging?
• What exactly is a ‘rapporteur’?
• Business Book of the Week – Kanzi – The ape at the brink of the Human mind
• People who are lonely at work are often also lonely outside
• The much maligned ‘ego’ – common qualities of arrogant executives, religious zealots and suicidal terrorists
• Business Book of the Week – Fried challenges the myths in Rework
• Business Book of the Week – Christakis – Connected = The science of social media networks
• Ten ways for senior executives to get ahead by managing themselves
• Business Book of the Week – Zimbardo on the nature of Evil
• CIPD reports: 2 out of 5 public sector organisations undergoing redundancies
• The future of HR – what really needs to change is the approach of some of its leaders
• Business Book of the Week – Robinson – The element – How finding your passion changes everything
• Acquiring gravitas (sometimes called charisma)
• Call it gravitas or charisma – it’s the quality that distinguishes statesmen from politicians
• Likeability and trustworthiness are key to board appointments
• Business Book of the Week – Watson – Future Minds – How The Digital Age is Changing Our Minds
• Business Book of the Week – Drive – The surprising truth about what motivates us by Daniel Pink
• BBOTW – Mind Maps for Business by Tony Buzan
• Unaccustomed, as I am, to effusive praise…
• Business Book of the Week – Them and Us – why we need a fair society by Will Hutton
• BBOTW – The way we’re working isn’t working (Schwartz)
• BBOTW – “Linked – How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business and Everyday Life” by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
• When what you say has the opposite effect
• BBOTW – What got you here won’t get you there (Marshall Goldsmith)
• BBOTW – “Screw Work, Let’s Play” by John Williams
• Social Media – How to get the most from it
• BBOTW – “59 Seconds” by Richard Wiseman
• Psychodynamic confidants in fiction – Deanna Troi – Star Trek
• BBOTW – “What the dog saw” by Malcolm Gladwell
• Leadership and Personal Development Agreement
• An appreciation of one of those people who touched my life without knowing, and led me to work as a psychodynamic ‘confidant’
• How psychotherapeutic confidants enhance Boardroom decisions
• Why Greenpeace took action today?
• Every once in a while, you read something SO profound…
• How childhood experiences can undermine executive performance – how one boy fell victim to his mother
• When someone loses balance, work quality and impact suffers
• Juggling family expectations and personal passion in an executive career
• Using an empty chair to turn negatives into positives
• The difference between ‘targets’ and ‘outcomes’
• When organisations have their own life
• How projection undermines even polished performers
• How projection undermines even polished performers
• Reaching inside an executive’s hard shell
• Teams, groups, executives, and the psychodynamics of unconscious urges
• What will YOUR wake up call be?
• A very quick introduction to Psychodynamics
• The Dalai Lama explains why social media work so well
• Dalai Lama offers social media users advice on avoiding conflict
• Interpreting SOHO business names
• The myth of the SoHo entrepreneurial boom
• What is the ‘point’ of personal development?
• Papal visit outrage – it ain’t what you do, it’s the way people react to it
• Is this social media thing just a psychological defence mechanism?
• Corporate Alumni Networks – savvy employers nurture their leavers
• Social Intelligence – why some people love parties and others hate them
• The use and abuse of power at work – Association (4/21)
• The use and abuse of power at work – Position (3/21)
• The use and abuse of power at work – Control (2/21)
• The use and abuse of power at work – Introduction (1/21)
• When the experts begin to love themselves – Oliver James
• What DOES ‘banter’ in social media say about you?
• Differentiate yourself through emotional literacy
• A further nail in the coffin of the Royal Mail?
• Would you help me with an ebook? Collaborative project. NO CATCH!
• An apocalyptic view of leadership (v2)
• Have you tested your own Customer Care experience?
• The risks and responsibilities of personal development
• Writing (and speaking) made easy – Part 3 – The Sales Model
• Writing (and speaking) made easy – Part 2 – Writing and Public Speaking are both creative forms of selling
• Writing (and speaking) made easy – Part 1 – The Pervasive Nature of Selling
• Governance, fraud and the leader’s confidante
• Governance, fraud and management of emotion in decision making
• The interesting case of an OVER performing team
• Bank holidays, portfolio careers and winter cold cures
• Bank holidays, portfolio careers and winter cold cures
• How PowerPoint contributed to the Columbia re-entry disaster
• Speed networking – not all it is cracked up to be
• How to turn down a job offer
• Business preparedness for swine flu – oh, come on!
• Climate mitigation – McDonalds takes a lead
• The role of a psychotherapist’s supervisor
• Writing to build your counselling/psychotherapy practice
• Making heroes out of leaders
• Why climate security affects us all
• What does climate security mean to ‘real’ people?
• When leaders fear to lead
• A few more thoughts on networking…
• Corporate Alumni Networks – managing your reputation and protecting your future in recessionary times
• Politicians urged to use the economic crisis to fight climate change and eliminate poverty
• Greening the economy
• An environmentally more friendly alternative to Google
• Greening the economy
• Free Year Planner for 2009
• Resolutions, goals, happiness and engagement
• When is a model more than just a pretty face?
• The Myth of Positive Stress
• Developing Social Intelligence
• Emotional Literacy
• Why Social Intelligence is more important than simply EQ
• What makes us happy?
• Fertilising trees to combat climate change
• When dynamics spiral out of control
• Quaker business practices prove to be more profitable
• Midlife crises, chasing God, and other existential issues
• What do our priorities say about us?
• Say it with flowers. The emerging science of symbols and why it is important to business and leadership
• Conscientiousness is the secret to a long life
• Leadership and resilience – a genetic heritage?
• Avert your eyes, something big is about to happen
• It ain’t what you do, nor is it necessarily how you do it…
• Create a new window into your organisation
• The Brain Machine interface
• Insights on business from American Express
• Balfour Beatty, serious fraud and a culture of deception
• Leaders, Governance and the Chaplain
• Customer Contempt 3 : BT Broadband (British Telecom)
• Incentive and Reward – why organisation-wide schemes often fail
• The ethics of false or grandiose claims in advertising…
• Corporate Prosperity and Posterity (surprising new lists)
• Priorities for business initiatives in 2008
• Keeping to your resolutions
• The role of the Chaplain at a Marriott Hotel
• Hillary Clinton urged to model herself on Margaret Thatcher
• Investment Analysts need Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ) – is it a teenage thing?
• Mayor’s Office receives accolades for Six Sigma efforts
• Ken Livingstone appoints Director of Six Sigma
• Preaching the Human Sigma Gospel
• Executive Coaching is a maturing market
• It’s all in the name, but which one?
• Is emotional intelligence an infantile approach to life?
• Do company-wide development programmes work?
• What makes an ethical leader?
• Make Sense of Unstructured Data
• Do some professions demand a portfolio career?
• Damning criticism of Six Sigma by US Quality Professional
• USAF saves nearly 50000 walking miles, 16000 man-hours and $8M
• Some Six Sigma videos on YouTube
• Leading the Lean Enterprise
• When people ask me if Leadership Development works…
• Sometimes a few gray hairs work…
• In a downturn, what do Executive Coaches do?
• Do coaches pick up the ball missed by managers?
• Youth and Leadership Development
• Do sporting analogues work in the world of business?
• Leadership coaching and existential psychology
• Business school includes prayer as a tool for creativity and more
• Does history inform the future?
• On Being Human
• Are you paying for unwanted services?
• Contempt for Customers – 2 Tropicana Pure Premium
• Contempt for Customers – 1 Chiltern Railways
• Profit and loss – more than a simple equation
• Management Insult 4: Talent Management Programmes
• Management Insult 3: Due Diligence
• Management Insults 2: "Pro Bono"
• Management Insult 1 – Intellectual Property
• Spiritual blessings, civil registrations and wedding celebrations
• How you can do a little bit for charity, without spending a penny (more)
• The Royal Mail Online Postage Scam
• Angry young men
• Charity working and volunteers – a Good News story!
• Is something ‘wrong’ with Britain?
• Why are we so obsessed with the bad news?
• The delicate issue of EGO
• Day-to-day ethics
• You only need to be let down once by a guide book
• The "Great Places to Avoid" Guide Book
• Midlife – what crisis? (GW guide)
• Spirit at Work – Ten Frequently Asked Questions
• Ten Tips for Job Hunters (GW guide)
• Why leaders need coaching
• Operational Excellence and Leadership
• On training to be a coach
• Accessing Knowledge and Networks (Book Extract)
• After the New Economy – Doug Henwood (Book Summary)
• The Human Face of Corporate Governance – Lynn McGregor (Book Summary)
• The Personal Branding Phenomenon – Montoya (Book Summary)
• Managing the Professional Firm – David Maister (Book Summary)