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Personal reflections on living through change and… reaching ones potential
All change practitioners, and those who have practiced ‘change management’ know the theory about negative and positive change, based on Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s experience of people dealing with grief....
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Taking control of your working life as an employee; a first 100 days approach?
At 4am on a fresh autumn morning, a coach load of members of the European Pharmaceutical Student Association (EPSA) began their early morning journey from Genoa, Italy, to Nice (France) to attend a...
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Building strong personal career paths – do you have a case study to share?
Readers of my blogs will know that I am an avid reader. I’ve just made my way through ‘Do more great work’ by Michael Bungay Stanier. It’s a misleadingly small book! It looks small, and from the...
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Why is employee engagement such an important topic?
By Elisabeth Goodman My blog on employee engagement (Employee engagement – some interesting data and perspectives for Lean and Six Sigma practitioners) is, of all the blogs that I have written since...
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Banishing the Monday morning blues: Being Exceptional
Holidays are an excellent time to catch-up with my reading, so I have just had a very stimulating week reading Rob Yeung’s “E is for Exceptional”. I’ve previously enjoyed Yeung’s books on networking,...
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Finding the leader within ourselves
Why yet another article about leadership? I’ve had an unusually busy few weeks so the gap between my blogs has been greater than usual. However the magical combination, for me, of coming across an...
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Developing your coaching skills as a manager
By Elisabeth Goodman, 18th January 2017 There are so many resources available to help managers perform at their best. We teach coaching skills in RiverRhee’s Introduction to Management course and...
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Living in the moment
By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th May 2017 Taking a moment to enjoy the wild flowers in the Haut-Languedoc, France, May 2017 I’m enjoying a delightful few days in the Haut-Languedoc, trying my best to live...
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Dealing with the dark side of our personalities!
By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th November 2017 Current approaches to management put emphasis on identifying and developing our strengths. And rightly so. Our individual strengths give us the opportunity to...
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Leadership achievement …with balance
By Elisabeth Goodman, 17th November, 2018 What is “Achievement Orientation”? The fourth primer in Daniel Goleman et al’s series on Emotional Intelligence is entitled “Achievement Orientation” – as...
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The manager as coach: helping employees reach their potential
By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th September 2019 Illustration from Boyatzis et al, “Coaching for Change – how to help employees reach their potential”, HBR Sept-Oct 2019, pp. 151-155 Why this blog? The ability...
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The manager as coach: leadership, management and coaching
By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th February 2020 We had a question during our recent RiverRhee Introduction to Management course about the relevance of learning about leadership skills as part of a management...
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Keeping our personal values in mind in the workplace
By Elisabeth Goodman, 13th February 2020 I am finding some great intersections between my regular reading of Harvard Business Review and my new reading as part of my development as a coach. This blog...
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Working with diversity in thinking, learning and interpersonal styles
Elisabeth Goodman, 9th May 2020 I’ve been doing a bit of reading and thinking about the impact of diversity in how we think and learn and how this might play out in our interactions with each other at...
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Starting from a position of choice in manager-employee relationships
By Elisabeth Goodman, 17th May 2019 An article in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review has, as is often the case, triggered some lateral thinking on my part. Borys Groysberg (2020) explores a...
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Going on a growth mindset journey
By Elisabeth Goodman, 10th August 2020 Have you ever…? Decided that something that you wanted to do was just too difficult?Hit obstacles that have put you off continuing with something that you...
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Developing your career – with choice
By Elisabeth Goodman, 12th January 2021 An article in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review (Bowles, H.R. & Thomason, B., 2021) caught my eye because it is a topic I am passionate about:...
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What if neurodiversity was simply treated as another form of diversity?
By Elisabeth Goodman, 18th January 2021 Some background on neurodiversity The term neurodiversity was first coined by Australian sociologist Judy Singer, and encapsulates a whole range of cognitive,...
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Flexing our learning muscle for personal development
By Elisabeth Goodman, 28th April 2021 I came across an excellent McKinsey article by Christensen et al (2021) on “intentional learning” – the idea that we: set clear goals for what we want to learn...
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Confidence, visibility and credibility – ingredients for realising our potential
By Elisabeth Goodman, 22nd May 2021 “If you don’t try it, you’ll never know” is a message that Melanie Boyle, VP of Project Management and Fellow of the Association for Project Management (APM),...
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