Paper: How to design, implement and evaluate organizational interventions for maximum impact: the Sigtuna Principles

By |2025-08-13T12:40:00+01:00September 9, 2020|Facilitation, Leadership, Models, Web Resource|

Interesting research on change design, support and evaluation

Recovery Star – Resilience

By |2025-08-13T12:48:10+01:00April 22, 2020|Executive Coaching, Leadership, Models, Web Resource|

The Recovery Star developed by the Association of Mental Health Providers (formely the Mental Health Providers Forum), is an outcomes measure which enables people using services to measure their own recovery progress, with the help of mental health workers or others. Recovery Star | Mental Health Partnerships:

The Performance equation

By |2020-04-19T09:34:22+01:00April 12, 2020|Executive Coaching, Models|

This is the fourth, in an occasional series, of articles around key concepts that have had a signifiant impact on me as a business leader, person, coach, trainer and facilitator. I originally came across the concept of the inner game and the performance long before I even knew what coaching was and far before I got trained as a professional coach. [...]

Comfort Zone

By |2020-04-18T21:06:59+01:00April 12, 2020|Executive Coaching, Leadership, Models|

This is the fifth in a series of articles around key concepts that have impacted me personally and professionally over the course of my career. I cam across the phrase of comfort zone early in my career when working at Plas-Y-Brenin, The National Centre for Mountain Activities in Snowdonia North Wales. All instructors were asked to stretch course participants out of their [...]

DeBono – Direct Attention Thinking Tools

By |2025-03-11T11:05:48+00:00April 12, 2020|Executive Coaching, Models|

This is the third of ten blog articles around concepts that have had a significant on me as a manager, leaders, coach and facilitator. When considering to change career in my very early twenties and get into working in people performance improvement in organisation I wandered into Gibraltar's only book shop at that time. The management section was pretty thin, but [...]

STORM Mnemonic – Engagement

By |2020-03-25T12:43:06+00:00March 21, 2020|Leadership, Models|

In preparation for a programme in October on Strategy Execution for Senior Leaders, I have been reading "Seven Strategy Questions: A simple approach for better execution" by Robert Simons, and it had an acronym on it that I liked for leadership engagement. The acronym was developed at the cosmetics company Mary Kay to espouse their beliefs about motivation. Their workers, principally [...]

Change Grid Certification – Business Coaching

By |2025-08-11T17:08:02+01:00March 21, 2020|Executive Coaching, Leadership, Models|

  Yesterday (Wednesday 3rd July 2013) I completed my ChangeWorks ChangeGrid Certification. What is ChangeWorks®? ChangeWorks is a system that applies the principles, insights, tools and techniques of “Tension Management” to supporting the change process at the individual, team and organizational levels. The focus of ChangeWorks is measuring, monitoring and managing the levels of "productive tension" the individual or population is [...]

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