How quick are you as a leader to offer guidance? Is your Advice Monster working overtime? In this Sirise Insights we look at developing a more impactful leadership style through coaching.

Greetings from a busy office here at Sirise Coaching where some days there’s hardly a break in between meetings and I’m balancing coaching and facilitation projects with several different clients. I suspect that you too, are probably in back-to-back meetings with little time for a tea break, let alone some ‘organised fun’. Yet we all know what happens when it’s all work and no play…

I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed people are starting to feel happier and more positive as the days get longer here in the UK. More sunlight, buds on the trees, flowers appearing, lambs in the field and all that good stuff. This got me thinking about Springtime being a great time to look forward and review your strategy.

How coachable are you?

Using the rather helpful research tool, Answer The Public, I discovered that this is one of the most common questions being asked about the topic of coachability. Along with keywords like ‘entrepreneur coachability’ and ‘coachability, the leadership superpower’.

Institutional capability seems to be an intriguing new concept C-suite leaders are talking about, and I’d love to share my thoughts about it in this Sirise Insights.

As we consider the start of 2024, let’s not look to resolutions but rather focus on the natural flow of things. This is what will deliver renewed sense of purpose, work-life balance and boost productivity no end. Arguably far better for you than forcing yourself into a new exercise routine that you don’t enjoy or deciding that you can exist exclusively on kale smoothies.

The holidays are almost here, and this email comes with every good wish to you and yours.

As I reflect on 2023, the word ‘Resilience’ comes to mind. Obviously, this is something we all need, and not just to get us through the festivities, along with a glass of mulled wine…

“Perspective is most often the key to happiness.”

I was recently introduced to my latest binge-watch, Virgin River on Netflix. In addition to appreciating the vast open landscapes and comforting sense of community, the above statement in the first episode resonated with me so much that I felt the need to write it down.

Can you believe we’re in Q4 already? 2023 has flown by and judging by the piles of Quality Street tins in my local branch of Tesco, it’ll soon be the holiday season.

I’ve noticed over the years that Autumn and January have something in common – they seem to be the months when LinkedIn tells me that more people than usual are starting new roles. Exciting times that present many opportunities, but let’s face it – it can also be a bit unsettling for the teams that have a new member joining.

“You’re not a success until you have a successor.” Sounds harsh, I know, but in reality, no leader gets to stay in their position indefinitely. Staying too long may mean that you exceed your useful economic life within that organisation. Succession Planning comes up quite regularly among my clients and I thought it would be a helpful topic to address in this month’s Sirise Insights.

Experts estimate that each person on earth makes up to 35,000 decisions all in the space of a day. Sounds exhausting, doesn't it?

Some of these may be life changing. Others could be as simple as deciding whether you're going to listen to the news or turn up the tunes on your way into the office. Other decisions may be quick and supposedly easy but will have significant consequences. Can you make it over that busy road before that large truck reaches you?

You, like me, might often have heard about the benefits of living a ‘Purpose-led Life’, but what does this mean for your business? In this ‘Sirise Insights’ emailer we look at the importance of PURPOSE and how it can drive better performance

As a Team Coaching specialist, I often get asked how does one deal with difficult people within a team? This is a something I’d like to address in this issue of Sirise Insights - and my perspective may be quite different to what you may think…

Do you tire of being asked for reviews all the time? Are you reticent to ask people what they think of you? In this issue of Sirise Insights we look at the F Word – FEEDBACK! And why it can have negative triggers for some executives…

As an executive coach I’ve worked with many individuals, typically executives or other high-level professionals, to help them improve their leadership and management skills. What some people don’t know about me, is that I also specialise in Team Coaching which has many benefits to an organisation. I love working with groups of people as I have seen how transformational team coaching can be. In this blog post I focus on one of the most important issues in developing cohesive groups, that of team commitment.

If you're a leader who's thinking about whether you have the space to explore a non exec director role, the team at Sirise Coaching would be happy to talk to you about that.