Leadership Resilience – Relationship Strength, the Secret Sauce
“How does cultivating relationships enable these leaders to become Resilient?Is it a natural ingrained mental and moral toughness…
Coach In Sight
When a seasoned coach is in sight, deep and meaningful insights will abound. After all, what a coach learns from working with leaders is not theoretical. The first-person experiences of a coach with the hundreds of leaders they work with can lead to deeply personal insights – insights about the journeys of leadership – striving to realize potential, struggling to solve problems and seeking to maintain well-being.
In these pages, you will find first-hand insights from CFI Coaches that promise to set you thinking and maybe even acting. We are happy to have you not just read them, but download and share them too. Happy reading.
Are Leaders Made or Born?
“There is glamour attached to Talent while Hard work and Learning seems mundane. Also not being born with…
Effective Leadership through Empathy to face Adversity and develop Resilience
It’s ironic that much of what we learn—technological skills, communication techniques, and customer-first mindsets— often falls short in…
Strategic Career Pivoting
A strong recommendation to enhance one’s self-awareness and engage in meaningful self-reflection to establish the real intent behind…
Now you see me…now you don’t
“What happens when people you’re engaging with, employees, employers, team mates and even top management suddenly go silent…
New Year, New Behaviour!
“Just like a vaccine, we introduce the new behaviour in short doses and keep at it until the…
Personal Branding 6 : Isn’t Personal Branding too Complex
“If you can follow these five steps you can manage your brand and build it into a true…
The Aposematic Leader
“There is a weird belief especially in corporate circles, that if one is busy then one is productive.…
Personal Branding #5 – Personal Branding & Networking
“A network has to be wide and deep. You need to know people from different domains and some…
The Aposematic leader
“In the world of business today, I find there are some behaviours that leaders exhibit which ward off…
Successful Leaders step out of the comfort zone
“The comfort zone makes one feel that everything is fine, that you are the jack of all trades…
From Struggling to Successful : A case for Transition Coaching
“Transition coaching provides tailored guidance to help leaders quickly gain confidence, navigate their unique challenges, and align their…
The inner-work for coaches
“The conscious domain of self-awareness tries to answer the ‘what’ and ‘how’ questions about our behaviour. It is…
Personal Branding 4 – No Bragging Please
“If you don’t speak about your triumphs, they may get ignored or get mis-attributed. How to do this…
Leadership Resilience
“This individual strength and competence is the much needed Resilience attribute – required ever so much in Leaders…
Being Accessible – a Leadership Competence
“The best leaders are approachable and accessible. They are truly part of the team and not merely a…
How Good Am I, Really?
“In attempting to answer for oneself the underlying question (How effective, really, am I?), there are two problematic…
Chicken or the egg? Attitude or behavior?
“First try to change your attitude in order to change behavior. If not, focus the other way, and…
Personal Branding 3 – Crafted or Automatic
“Now being competent in your job is not an option in business or corporate life. I can argue that being conscious of your personal brand, crafting it and projecting it is becoming equally important.” Personal branding, a concept that can be traced back to 1997, is relevant to you irrespective of…
What are you paid for
“I am paid for my decisions, not for the hours of work.”Said the man of few words, patted…
Building Corporate and Team Culture – Leaders’ Perspective
“ I witnessed significantly more effective team functioning driven by shifts in the trust quotient, interpersonal relationships, and…
Who do I talk to?
The very sad incident of the young CA fresher at one of the Big Five has triggered a…
The Art of Letting Go: Enhancing Team Performance with Effective Delegation
“Delegation vs. Effective Delegation – What does it mean to delegate effectively, and why do so many leaders…
Human Well-being, Olympic Medals, and Workplace Productivity: What is the Common Thread?
“Performance assessment is no longer solely based on on-the-job skills, whether for a sportsperson or a corporate executive.”…
Personal Branding 2 – The Relevance
Personal branding is a concept that was first written about in 1997, almost 30 years ago. But some…
Personal Branding 1 – The Origin
When we coaches speak to our coachees that they should think about their ‘personal brand’ we often get…
Personal Effectiveness – Beware the Jekyll and Hyde Effect
“The aim to be effective in the workplace is laudable. If, however, the investment this requires –…
