Quite often, potential clients arrive knowing that they need to improve their influencing skills. When I ask them to elaborate, they soon begin to struggle to explain with any degree of clarity. Quite understandably, they do not know enough about the subject of...

You cannot become a good leader until you have learnt how to manage the day job.   Trying to be a leader when you are struggling to manage your deadlines, complete your projects, and deal with conflict, just doesn't work. Regardless of the amount of leadership...

Scary as this may sound, it is relatively easy to avoid if you are aware of the risk and take a few simple precautions. It is also possible to take steps to protect yourself if the worst does happen.Unlike many forms of coaching, this particular danger awaits the...

It is some time since I last wrote specifically about power here. The topic has not gone away, far from it. Power remains a central part of the way I look at the world, and how I help people with integrity to influence more effectively. Regardless of what you are...

In this article, I am going to share with you my thoughts and experiences of creating coaching programmes that help people to become more influential. Along the way I will give you detailed examples, including a template structure which I call the Executive Service....

How you choose to record and how you use these documents is entirely up to you, and perhaps the person in HR who is paying the bill. The examples given below are based on actual coaching I have done but have naturally been made anonymous. My suggestion is to take a...