Category: Legal
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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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How Effective is Executive Coaching?
As an executive coach, I often get asked, ‘Does executive coaching really work?’ The good news is research carried out over a number of years and in different contexts suggests that it does. What’s more, the research in question covers a lot of common ground when discussing the benefits and results of coaching, albeit to…
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What’s holding you back?
Fear is a choice. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not something you have to suffer and do nothing about – it can be embraced and directed towards achieving amazing results! Do you ever find that fear holds you back when making an important, perhaps even business-breaking decision? Do you find fear preventing you from going…
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Onboarding – how to succeed
A Heidrick & Struggles study of 20,000 executives found that 40% of those hired at senior level left 18 months later. If the first 101 days in a new role determines long-term performance, what makes them successful? Understanding what positively impacts the first three months – or 101 days – in role sets the barometer…
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VW Crisis – what price for a Leader’s Integrity?
Volkswagen is the latest and possibly the highest profile in a long line of self-destructive corporate disasters deriving from lack of integrity at the top. As announced by VW last week, the current provision set aside to deal with the issue is a huge €6.5bn, meaning the company is set to pay a colossal price…
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Coaches: good enough for Olympians, but not for you?
With just one year to go until the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, we look at the importance of a coach on the performance of an Olympic athlete and how a valuable a coach can be in the professional arena. An athlete’s sheer determination undoubtedly contributes to victory but it’s important to remember…
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Can you delivery great results in 101 days – The Lawyer
Alan Denton was asked to write about how to make the best possible start during the first 101 days in a new role. View Article
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Transition within the legal sector – how to manage the process successfully
The legal profession is often seen as a static environment by those working outside it (and sometimes within it), populated by traditional partnership structures and slow to implement the different concepts embraced by other industries such as outsourcing. View Article
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Do you have these qualities to drive change?
All leaders must have the power to transform a company; whether you have been assigned the task of radically adapting a business, or are just trying to keep up with the latest trends, you need to have the ability to drive change. So what are the three key qualities that aid a leader in making…
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Save time, get more done
As a managing director, CEO or manager, chances are that you spend a lot of time organising other people, rather than getting your own work done and reaching your own goals. However, often it can be the little shortcuts that really cut the time spent on certain tasks, so here are The Results Centre’s top three…