Author: Alan Denton
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What is making you such a chicken?
Within business, many people let their fears prevent them from getting the results they want. People are often put off by things such as public speaking, networking, and making significant changes to their business that could potentially gain them positive results. Often their fears are founded on the fear of the unknown; people are unlikely…
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The sky’s the limit…
Thanks to all the people who attended Alan Denton’s recent talk that took place in Central London at the start of October. Based on the feedback from the room and the e-mails received afterwards, a great many people got a lot out of the ideas and challenges that Alan suggested. Specifically, he challenged everyone to…
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Finding your own way
Some years ago we worked with a client who was headhunted by a major retailer. For the sake of this example, let’s call her Helen. She joined the company in a major role in retail operations. Having already had experience of executive coaching in her previous company, took us with her to support and challenge…
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How to build a team like Alex Ferguson
Even those who don’t follow football are familiar with Sir Alex Ferguson and his achievements at Manchester United FC. At times a controversial character, he has long been respected for his strong leadership and the achievements brought about under his management. Football is now so much more than a sport; it’s a highly competitive business…
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Making an organisation great
The great organisations give space, support and a framework for success that is clear – this is not the soft option or approach – many people, as you may have experienced, see the setting and managing of clear frameworks more difficult that just letting people succeed or fail on their own account. The number of…
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The flaws of recruitment
In today’s modern world most recruitment is thorough but, I would argue, fatally flawed. Too much effort is put into the ‘process’ of recruitment and precious little focus is put on the support mechanism, an appropriate induction, under development of a clear vision and strategy that is focused on a high degree of certainty for…
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Challenging the chicken…
I remember the client case we took on in 2010 when a new hire was four months into his tenure in a very high profile role where delivery was paramount. We’d been brought in as a last ditch attempt to prevent him being fired and the merry-go-round of re-recruitment starting up again at great expense.…
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Is the Honeymoon period over for you?
An internal study of 20,000 executive searches performed by global executive search company Heidrick & Struggles found that 40 per cent of executives hired at the senior level are pushed out, fail or leave within 18 months of their start date. This study and the data on recruitment success rates, below, are a clear indicator…
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Vision and direction or fire fighting?
We worked closely with a group of senior leaders in a global manufacturing business. Many of the leaders ran the operation because they knew the nuts and bolts from the ground up. This left a yawning gap in the vision and direction of the business, not to mention the enrollment, engagement, education and motivation of…
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The 8 Steps to Authentic Leadership
Trust is the key to any organization, brand, leader, product and relationship. The good news is that trust is not a scarce resource and because it has a plentiful supply we can all have more than we need. However, it is important to realise that trust is also one of the easiest things to lose,…