Asking better questions in Performance Management Conversations: How to shift underperformance – Part One

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Lots of our clients tell us they are struggling to get people to shift into being high performers through coaching. This often comes up when thinking about performance management. It's all very well talking about coaching people to high performance,…
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Bad Questions – what makes a question ineffective

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Bad Questions - what's the difference between ineffective questioning, and effective questioning? Check out this webinar recording from one of our regular Coaching Cafe Sessions. In this webinar, we looking at ineffective questioning. In…

Course Re-Accreditation Survey 2019

Collingwood coach, Nathan Buckley, attributes their success to taking a strengths based approach

Collingwood coach, Nathan Buckley, attributes their success to taking a strengths based approach For those of you not in Victoria, it's 'Footy Grand Final Week' here in Open Door's home state and this weekend the Collingwood Magpies take on…
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Three Cheers for the Champions of Coaching

Three Cheers for the Champions of Coaching   This week is 'Coaching Week' in Australia! Coach Week is a celebration of 'all things coaching' and for me it holds an extra special piece of significance this  year as this month we celebrate…

Mentoring for High Performance

We are often asked on our programs ‘what’s the difference between coaching and mentoring?’ and many managers realise that what they call ‘coaching’ is actually ‘mentoring’.  In this blog, rather than explore the differences, I…

The role of vulnerability in leadership

I was reflecting recently after a couple of executive coaching sessions about the topic of vulnerability.  My clients, both very senior women where discussing the role that vulnerability plays in their workplace and particularly as part of…

Shifting Under Performance – Part 1

Whenever I am delivering a coaching workshop and talking about coaching to enable engagement, accountability, responsibility and high performance, our conversations are often naturally diverted by someone who says… ‘It’s all very well…

Knowing the GROW Model versus actually coaching!

In all of our coaching programs we ask participants to go back and just ask the basic ‘four top coaching questions’ to really practice the GROW Model: What is it you want to achieve? (Or what is your goal?) What’s happening now? …

Forget active listening and just listen!

So one of the ideas that I have been reflecting on lately is whether the concept of active listening has become out dated!  Yes, I know it’s a bit controversial! But before all great coaches before me rise up and call for me to hand in my…