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| In this issue : |  News Client Profile In my View Bookshelf |
| 1. Scottish survey | |
| Scots to shape up or pay up | |
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In
her keynote speech at the annual conference for the Association for
Coaching in Edinburgh, WWS director Averil Leimon concluded: "Scottish
cynicism is a blight that kills new initiatives in our country".
Her conclusion is based on research conducted with business leaders
at 20 of Scotland’s top companies. Check out the seven universal
Scottish values she identified.
seven universal Scottish values ... |
| 2. Toppled from the top | |
When news broke recently of PM Tony Blair’s forced confession of a leaving date, Sky News turned to WWS director François Moscovici for comment on the psychological implications. They wanted to find out the parallels between the corporate world and politics. "My response was that shareholders vote
every six months, not every five years and CEOs are prepared to jump
at shorter notice than politicians. The lesson to politicians is:
be prepared, and once you have made the decision, leave immediately." |
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| 3. Talent guru joins WWS | |
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Colin Duthie, a leadership
and talent management specialist, recently joined WWS to help clients
raise their game even higher. He has worked internationally in both
corporate and business roles for several FTSE 50 companies and
public sector organisations. Colin brings expert knowledge on talent
management, and the cost-effective retention of high performing managers.
His strength is benchmarking to help companies measure their efforts
in the ‘war for talent’ against best practice.
how Colin helps companies win the war for Talent ... |
4. Hot off the press |
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| A Guide to Coaching and Mental Health | |||
We are pleased to recommend the latest tome of Routledge's business coaching series co-edited by WWS director Averil Leimon. This Guide to Coaching and Mental Health alerts coaches to possible mental health problems in clients and provides an assessment of the psychological issues in the context of coaching. According to psychology and health guru, Professor Cary Cooper it is "A thoughtful, highly readable and extremely useful book that will help coaches… a must-read to demistify the stigma of mental illness" Essential
Business Coaching But don't just take our word for it: Essential Business Coaching is also a compendium of 10 case studies: five corporate buyers of coaching – from PwC to BT – and five executives who have gone through the experience and described what happened and their results. We are also pleased to report five star reviews in each country where our book is distributed.
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| Coaching the Leaders | |
| John Campbell, Director of Wholesale Energy, Scottish Power | |
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John runs one of one of ScottishPower's core energy businesses in the UK. His role covers three strategic areas: power generation; commodity trading and renewable energy - each with its own director who reports into John. His remit includes 1,000 permanent staff, with up to an additional 1,000 contractors and the business is spread from Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands and includes both Southern and Northern Ireland. read John's insider's story on leadership coaching... |
| In praise of Al “Chainsaw” Dunlap… | |
| If business needs its heroes, it equally needs its
villains and none come bigger than Al Dunlap, ‘saviour’
of Scott Paper, destroyer of thousand of careers and waster of billions
of shareholders’ money at Sunbeam Corp. Many quotes have been
attributed to this charming man, including the infamous: “'If
you want a friend, buy a dog. I've got two.”
what can we learn from corporate vilains? ... |
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| Pulp versus wisdom… classic business books | |
Airports are littered with really bad business books
that promise to reveal leadership secrets of your local Chinese
takeaway in seven minutes or less… However some books stand
the test of time and are trusted companions for all those grey moments
when you need a little help or reassurance. In this column we plan
to identify key reads, so please send yours via the link below so
that we can build a stimulating reading list for those of us who
like our thinking a bit less distilled… Here are our three
for our launch issue: |
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