Leadership Development Coaching

This article on leadership development coaching (and the links here) introduce you to our approach ... and to us.

If you've picked up the general tone from our Home Page and you like it ... great! We've taken a little space here to set our stall out.

We hope this will help you to check out quickly whether the rest of the site may be useful to you. You'll probably want to know if we're talking the same language

Limitations to exisiting leadership development approaches

First, we take a look at the limits of some current leadership development approaches. This article focuses on limitations - as we see them - in the development of leadership potential.

We respond to that with an approach that says it's less about skills, more about "Developing the Whole Leader." You'll find more in this article about development in leadership potential.

Leadership development coaching: our background and recent experience

As two leadership development consultants, our backgrounds are pretty different. Robert has followed a career in alternative medicine. He's led the development of ground breaking educational and clinical projects.

As a qualified teacher, he stated work in local authority employment. A growing interest in people led to a quick move to social care, working with young people deemed 'at risk' for various reasons. He worked for social services departments in Gateshead and North Tyneside.

He led the development of a borough wide program of outdoor education as a vehicle for confidence building and social skills development. This included working with an instructors' panel of 50 volunteers, full-time and part-time staff: assessing training needs and planning leadership development programs to fulfill those needs.

This work had a strong leadership development coaching approach: appraising, encouraging panel members to take ownership of their own development needs.

This work with "at risk" or marginalized groups of people (including substance mis-users) has continued. With Mike, he is now developing an approach to community leadership development that emphasizes adaptive leadership. This focuses on the needs of the emerging "Community Cohesion" agenda.

Here we describe more about ourselves and our - very different - backgrounds as leadership development consultants.