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Vesa Ristikangas | 08.01.2025

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How to Increase the Impact of Leadership Coaching?

If you have been wondering how much money your organization has spent on training or coaching and what results have been achieved, this blog is for you.  Typically, at the end of a coaching day, the immediate feeling is evaluated - how participants experienced the training day. However, measuring just the feeling is not a guarantee of a change in behavior. 

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Kati Lanu | 03.01.2025

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Listening at the heart of collaboration and a coaching approach

At the heart of good interpersonal skills and successful collaboration is listening—Being present while listening. In all of our coaching sessions, interaction situations always arise in some form: skill of being present, encountering another individual truly as a person, active listening—and the experience of being heard and seen, which is so necessary for the other.

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Anna Lönnroth | 17.12.2024

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How to Evolve from an Executive Group to a Leadership Team?

The difference between a team and a group is not always clear. An executive group can operate effectively and achieve its goals, but a team goes further: in a team, all members support each other, share responsibility, and work towards a common goal. A team is not merely a nominal assembly at the top of an organizational hierarchy; it is a living, breathing unit of collaboration where everyone's contribution is valuable.

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31.01.2022

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Here is how to succeed in remote management

The basic role of a remote manager is the same as that of a middle manager: to lead the operation. However, the old way of leading no longer works.

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Peter Peitsalo | 19.01.2022

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Succeed in multi-site work! Five tips for tearing down the virtual wall

If I were asked to describe the recent times in one word, multi-site work is the first that comes to my mind. Organizations are feverishly thinking about how to return to office work, if they return, and how to organize future work. There are many questions and tensions, and for a reason.

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10.01.2022

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A New Normal?

Perhaps the biggest upheaval in our working lives began with the Covid-19 pandemic. As a nation, we had to take a huge leap and learn many new digital skills.

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04.01.2022

How to build a coaching-based organizational culture

A coaching-based organizational culture is a description of an operating culture composed of strong self-direction, accountability, agility and solution-orientation. Further, joint goals, continuous learning, collaboration, and outspokenly handling contradictions are integral parts of a coaching-based culture.

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04.01.2022

Why to Develop your Systemic Coaching Skills now?

Benefits of systemic coaching skills are multifaceted. Systemic coaching helps the client to understand their thinking more deeply, as well as the surrounding phenomena and relations they have with the system.

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24.11.2021

Make coaching leadership culture a reality

Pillar Cards® is Finland’s most influential coaching tool! You can use it in your daily leadership activities, individual and team coaching, supervision, goal setting and performance appraisals. Get yours now!

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Vesa Ristikangas | 27.08.2021

Towards a Stellar Management Team

Regardless of the current state of the management team (poorly functioning, satisfactory, good, or high performance), development is always possible. It is a process that involves the whole group.

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David Clutterbuck | 29.11.2020

How to have gravitas as a team coach

Gravitas is one of the Ancient Greek virtues, a combination of “dignity, impressiveness, seriousness, influence, weight and presence” in the words of Caroline Goyder, a specialist voice coach and scholar on the topic. How to develop gravitas as a team coach?

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David Clutterbuck | 28.04.2020

Team coaching virtual teams

Virtual teams and how to coach virtual teams have a number of differences compared with co-located teams. In this blogpost, Clutterbuck discusses the key factors to remember when preparing a virtual team for coaching.

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Victoria Sahllal | 09.01.2020

Where to get the perseverance to keep on going?

How do I focus on one thing at a time, when there are plenty of things to do? Where to find the motivation of doing things and finishing the tasks? Where to find enough perseverance?

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David Clutterbuck | 06.01.2020

Four perspectives of reflective self-awareness

One of the simplest methods of developing greater self-awareness is to allocate time regularly to revisit recent experiences and seek insights from them. A simple structure for this is the quartet of questions:

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David Clutterbuck | 08.11.2019

Is your organisation ready for internally sourced team coaching?

Teams are the cellular structures that make the corporate body work. Without teams, it would be next to impossible to organise large, complex tasks. Yet teams rarely perform as well as they might.

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David Clutterbuck | 15.09.2019

VLOG: Responsibility back to the team

If there are issues in the team, what should the team coach do? Professor David Clutterbuck gives his tips.

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David Clutterbuck | 06.06.2019

Why coaches and mentors shouldn’t beat themselves up when client change doesn’t happen

Every beginner coach or mentor goes through a phase of questioning their own competence, based upon a sense that they could (or should) have had so much more impact.

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David Clutterbuck | 01.06.2019

Multiplicity theory and team coaching

The concept that humans are composed not of one single self or personality, but of numerous different “selves” that think and behave differently in response to different stimuli, is now well entrenched.

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David Clutterbuck | 30.05.2019

Yet another reason to focus more on the team and less on individuals

Having a team full of superstars doesn’t lead to high performance, according to research by Roderick Swaab. His researches indicate that when two-thirds of the team are star performers, they co-operate less and become more competitive with each other.

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Peter Peitsalo | 23.05.2019

When the captain and his crew are blindfolded

As a top management team aims for the stars, it might end up landing on the moon, if the core of its teamwork is not good enough.