It is no surprise that organisations are relying more heavily on consultants to complete or complement their suite of services. It makes sense at a number of levels, including improved efficiency, flexibility and economy. CfOD’s experience in consulting relationships with out clenst is that results improve dramatically when the relationship is a major focus –…
The OD Challenge: How Adaptable is Your Organisation, Really?
Does your organisation provide the space for people to ask the question, not what is, but what could be? Does your organisation have the emergent qualities necessary to adapt? Do you build sustainable relationships with your people? Organisations that prosper over the long term don’t just offer best value, they offer genuine affection for people…
Global Leadership – a SPIRAL DYNAMICS Integral Perspective
How do we lead in an increasingly complex environment? Intuitively as leaders we know solutions that have satisfied our existential problems in the past are not working anymore. How many more restructures, consultative processes, mediated discussions, leadership challenges, terror attacks, battles and wars will there be before there is a paradigm shift in our thinking?…
The Best Career Advice I’ve Ever Given
As part of my coaching I often have conversations with people about major career decisions. Should I take this job? Should I pursue this opportunity? Should I accept this promotion? An important part of answering these questions depends upon the way you view your career. When I started out a long time ago in a…
Local Government ‘Early Adopters’
A lot of the work we do at the Centre for Organisation Development is with local government. It is interesting then that it has taken me so long to put my finger on what it is about local government organisations that make them different from so many other organisations. I think it is, that they…
The Best Way to Reward Your Team
I recently had an important meeting with the Harley Owners Group. Given I was a co-founder, a life member, the #1 ticket holder and it was 30 years since we started, it was a landmark occasion. This made me think about how we reward our people. What’s the best way to reward your team? To…
Three Essential Strategies You Need to Grow Your Career
Over the years I’ve coached hundreds of people – maybe even a thousand – across many organisations and at different levels, from graduates just starting out through to CEOs considering retirement. As you might expect, over time you start to see the same things emerge about what works and what doesn’t as people grow their…
How Understanding Neuroscience Will Improve Your Life
You might have noticed in the past decade we have learnt more about the human brain than in all the time since we started walking upright. It sure helps that we can now see a living working brain in action as compared to simply guessing about how our grey matter functioned from the outside –…
Leadership Secrets from Michael Phelps Coach
Athletically, I’m probably as far from swimmer Michael Phelps as you can get. I’m not a big sports fan either. And I haven’t been swimming for a long, long time. (In case you don’t know, Phelps is the most successful Olympic athlete of all time. He has 22 medals – 18 of them gold.) While…
How to Build Organisational Strength
Now, we want to turn our attention to building organisational strength. Imagine if all of your people were doing work they loved most of the time… (And I need to emphasize ‘most of the time’. The expectation we can always be working in our strengths and doing things we love all of the time simply…