– Self Determined Life

Self Detemined Life

Helping you manage performance and development

The importance of perspective taking: a lesson from life

Leadership emerges from the interactions between people and good leadership is exemplified by exchanges that leave all parties feeling that they have been understood and their interests accounted for. Good leadership is therefore relational not transactional. And at the heart of this kind of leadership is perspective taking capacity – the ability to understand the…

Continue Reading The importance of perspective taking: a lesson from life

Change leadership skills: 12 critical attributes of great change leaders

Leading change is hard. But good change leaders are essential if any kind of change – organisational or otherwise – is going to succeed. In the context of organisational change, Kotter’s change model emphasises the need for leaders to: create the climate for change, create the conditions for change, and then implement change in a…

Continue Reading Change leadership skills: 12 critical attributes of great change leaders

20 Effective leadership questions: the power to motivate and inspire

Effective leadership questions are at the heart of great leadership. This is because great leadership is relational, not transactional. As leadership expert Michael Cavanagh contends, “the quality of the conversation determines the quality of the relationships and the quality of the relationships determines the quality of the organisational system”. And, in my view, it is…

Continue Reading 20 Effective leadership questions: the power to motivate and inspire

What is coaching?

Coaching.fm is dedicated to helping managers and leaders improve their leadership capabilities and build high performing teams and there is a strong focus, within these pages, on coaching as the best way to facilitate improvement and growth. So if I’m promoting coaching as the means by which we can best bring about development in people,…

Continue Reading What is coaching?