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“I’m a bit of a maverick when it comes to competition in business. You see, I don’t think I have any. Before you accuse me of all sorts of arrogance, let me explain. It’s not that I don’t recognise that there are other people out there offering the same thing as I do. It’s that I don’t care.” Last month I wrote an article for The Maverick Paradox on Maverick competition in business. I explored the idea of competition being an abstract concept and the true nature of ‘healthy competition’. Read the full article here.

“Only people can achieve targets and they need to be allowed to learn their own effective ways for doing so.“ I recently spent some time with the brilliant Tim Gallway, author of The Inner Game of Tennis, and i wrote about my time with him, and all that i learnt, in an article for Training Zone. My intention in the article is to show that inner game coaching principles can make a real difference in a work situation by setting out what happened when I used them to improve performance in one of my client’s organisations. Please check out the article

“The notion of GROW coaching can make us believe that asking questions is all there is to coaching, but this is simply not true. “ I recently wrote an article for the guys at Training Zone about the GROW model. Many management training courses focus on the GROW model as a way to teach delegates how to coach, but this seldom works and it’s time we equipped managers with the right skills to coach effectively.  Have a read of the article and let me know what you think.