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Why introverts rarely emerge as leaders Keywords: leadership, introvert, extrovert, introversion, extroversion, leadership development, emergent leadership, informal leadership, affective forecasting errors Emergent, or informal, leaders are people who take on…

A number of new (2018)  wide-ranging studies of executive coaching have just been published. These include the first systematic review of executive coaching, which focuses on all the previous published…

One of the problems with many training and education courses is that the curriculum is set by the institution or organisation. Whilst on one level this appears to make sense,…

Keywords: Personal qualities, professional qualities, humanities, professional development, empathy tolerance of uncertainty, burnout A new study looking at how to develop positive personal qualities in medical physicians has tested the…

Keywords: expertise, developing expertise, learning, learning and development The idea of having expertise in an area is an important one in organisations and yet we rarely give much thought to…

Keywords: Coaching, solution-focused cognitive-behavioural coaching, engagement and well-being matrix, Performance, Well-Being, Mental health A number of previous studies have found that solution-focused cognitive-behavioural coaching can be effective both at increasing…

Keywords: executive coaching, coaching, coaching effectiveness, behaviour change, learning and development methods, learning and development An intriguing, new (waiting to be published) study by a team of researchers from the…

Keywords: coaching, executive coaching, evidence-based coaching, measurement of coaching, evaluation of coaching, psychological capital, thriving a work Coaching makes a series of assumptions about the outcomes of the process of…

Running a safe and efficient space programme is one of the highest risk jobs of all. A new report shows that investigations into organisational learning with regard to the Challenger…