Useful
Resources
Leadership Coaching: From Personal Insight to Organisational Performance
This book is shaped around a distinction between three behavioural tendencies: Defiant Leadership, Compliant Leadership, and Authentic Leadership.
Breakthrough Conversations for Coaches, Consultants, and Leaders
This book offers a detailed understanding of the underpinning concepts, a 5-step journey for applying the ideas, case studies of coaching with individuals and pairs of managers, and highly accessible practical tools.
The Location of Authenticity
This is chapter twenty-one from The Winnicott Tradition – Lines of Development. Written by Graham Lee.
Guided
Reflective Practices
We can enhance our self-awareness and presence, whether a manager or a coach, if we engage in practices that help us to pause and to observe our own mental and emotional states.
Mindfulness practices are a great resource for honing self-observation and awareness. Below are two sets of guided practices that I have offered on previous programmes, Rewiring Your Brain for Resilience, and, Bringing your ‘A’ Game.
Whether you choose to use these guided practices, or others you can find online, the key is to commit to practicing regularly for at least a week and to find out for yourself the impact on your mental and emotional state.
In the Breakthrough Conversations trainings, whether for managers or coaches, I offer specific other practices that are built around the techniques in that programme.