Entries by Adrienne Davitt

The Challenge of Change – Part 2

Every organisation plans and feeds back to a greater or lesser degree but there is a tipping point that only a relatively small number reach. When applied to the proper extent, planning and feedback become game changers; they allow managers and management click together like Lego. They provide the mechanism and the anchor through which the individual and collective change can be achieved.

July 25, 2011 by

Can you handle failure?

Handling failure and blame is a key to managerial success. But roughly 70 % of Americans have a personality type that tends to react inappropriately when things go wrong.

May 20, 2011 by

How Executives Can Learn from High Performing Athletes

The performance of elite athletes and those who excel in business is alike in many ways and both of these high performing groups can learn much from one another and how they excel in their relative fields. Countless research endeavours have found that how top sports people approach their respective games – and often their professions – is akin to how business leaders drive change and growth in organisations.

May 16, 2011 by

Understanding the Change Cycle in Coaching

Change is inevitable in all aspects of life. In the business world the rate of change is ever increasing, with new technologies, new competitors, new products, new markets, new customers and new demands appearing every single day. Because it’s going to happen whether we like it or not, change should be looked upon as an opportunity for growth and development – a way to make ourselves as people and the environments in which we live and work better.

March 16, 2011 by