Author: Alan Denton
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Women in Entrepreneurship Day – TRC Slide Pack
Rachel Halsall, Development Leader at The Results Centre, is speaking at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on Friday the 18th November 2016. We are happy to share the slide pack used for her talk entitled “Women returning to Work after an extended absence”. View the slides Download the slides For more information on Career…
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Coaching Return on Investment – does it exist?
♯Big Ideas in Executive Coaching Research recently completed with coaching buyers (Denton, 2016) indicated a clear need for value and results from coaching. They really want to see measurable outcomes and, on the surface, this seems a reasonable and laudable expectation. In contrast whilst coaching research suggests that executive coaching works, the measurement of the…
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Trade Secretary Liam Fox call Britain’s bosses ‘too lazy and fat’
The recent story of Trade Secretary, Liam Fox, biting the hand of those he needs support from is, to say the least, interesting. His assertion that Britain’s business leaders are either too ‘fat’ or ‘playing golf on a Friday to export’ has rankled with many of our clients. What was he thinking …..? Given the…
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Who is your next great leader in waiting?
With all the uncertainty around the economic direction of the UK, the qualities of great leadership have never been more valued. It seems (certainly as far as political parties are concerned), that it’s a quality currently in short supply. Recently, I watched individuals jockey for positions within our political parties. As an organisation this might…
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Brexit, Boardrooms and Beliefs
How your attitude to the events in June could reveal a great deal about the future of your business and your leadership style. The last two weeks have probably been the most momentous and, in some ways exciting and uncertain in most of our lifetimes. Kipling’s quote ‘IF you can keep your head when all…
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Taking employee engagement to a new level
I was recently asked to speak about employee engagement. It’s a big topic at the moment that many organisations have concerns over. Companies realise that productivity is as much about engagement as technology and so having an engaged workforce is essential on many levels. The more engaged the staff, the happier the customer and ultimately…
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Strong client relationships are integral to success
The Results Centre founder Alan Denton was asked to write an article for The Barrister Magazine on the subject of client relationships. Although it focusses on the legal profession, the article contains insights relevant to many professions. Here is a specially adapted version of the article: Good client rapport is a key part of success…
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How do you define Leadership?
I get asked this question daily. Leadership is open to widely different interpretations and full of confusing ideas and terminology. The descriptions, definitions and examples of leadership vary enormously. We lead when we are first given a supervisory role at work, a monarch and president are both leaders. We lead our own children in rights…
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COACHING opens up a World of POSSIBILITIES
Those teams with the vision, drive and creative engineering mindset who designed and built Concorde in the 1960’s lived and chose to work in a World of Possibilities. They were not constrained by the past – time and time again we come across people in all business sectors who refuse to follow the trends already…
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Choosing the best in class
Choosing the right people to be at the front of your business can be a minefield. So we thought we’d provide a free helping hand to make sure you choose the best in class… According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) on average less that a third of companies use assessment centres as a method…