Press Coverage
The Risks and Rewards of Global Leadership Development - Talent Management Magazine
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April 2012
Done correctly, global leadership development programs build leaders' strengths and widen organisational capability and cross-cultural competence.
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Licence to Lead - HR Director
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2011
Lise Palomares, HR Development Manager - Nokia
Developing new leaders in times of significant change is essential to stay competitive and retain key talent.
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Can a coaching mindset help develop the way you lead? - Supply Business
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September 2014
Christopher Smith, Director, Bath Consultancy Group explores how a coaching mindset can develop the way you lead in the September issue of Supply Business (www.supplybusiness.com).
What is the best coaching conversation you have had? Were you coaching or being coached? Many see coaching as something that only happens in formal meetings or with outside experts.
In my experience coaching can become part of how we work, a mindset, not the answer to everything but invaluable in building relationships, generating trust and making a real difference in getting to good quality outcomes that benefit business performance.
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Two Steps to Success - Training Journal
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February 2011
Peter Hawkins and Christopher Smith outline the twin pillars of authentic leadership: relationships and alignment.
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Challenges of leading Gen Y in the Credit Crunch - Changeboard
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October 2009
Laura Heath examines the challenges leaders in Professional Service firms are facing in leading Generation Y in the Credit Crunch. She draws on research that Bath Consultancy Group has conducted both with leaders in professional service firms and Generation Y in their first or second roles.
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Closing the Female Talent Gap - Changeboard
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October 2010
Sue Pritchard and Laura Heath from Bath Consultancy Group both presented at a recent Opportunity Now event. After 30 years of discussion, organisations must move forward on closing the female talent gap. There needs to be a new approach to working with women leaders.
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Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast - HR Director
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February 2011
Mergers and acquisitions can have a toxic balance sheet culturally. It is a vital role that HR leaders can play and will prevent derailment, maintain productivity and retain key talent during a challenging time of change. HR needs to ensure that there is human due diligence so that the culture of different organisations is assessed as thoroughly as the financials of an organisation being acquired or merged.
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Counting the Cost - Coaching Crisis
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January 2010
How coaches behaved in the credit crunch isn't just a matter for personal reflection - coaching is young enough for our reactions to have affected the whole profession.
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How to be a Virtual Leader - Edge Magazine
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May 2010
The rise in remote working is putting managers under pressure to engage and motivate staff who are increasingly removed from the physical constraints of the conventional office. Managers need to do more than issue instructions to maintain productivity, writes Sue Weekes.
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How to implement change in the public sector without your best people leaving - HR Magazine
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May 2010
For many leaders in the public sector it isn't difficult to demonstrate a convincing rationale for change, show the graphs and numbers that justify your proposed strategy, draw up a new structure and win a mandate to make change. Yet this is only half the job. The other - perhaps most challenging half - is implementing this new way of working without your best people leaving, morale crashing, performance falling through the floor and dissatisfaction erupting among your customers.
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How to successfully lead a virtual team - fresh business thinking
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June 2010
Virtual teams are becoming as common as their non-virtual counterparts as an increasing number of organisations grapple with the challenges of working globally and also acknowledge the potential they offer to harness a range of skills, experience and ability. Here I will outline some steps you can take to ensure you successfully lead your virtual team.
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If you only do one thing this week... tell your bosses what you think of them - The Guardian
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February 2010
Employers should receive appraisals as well as employees – just be careful how you go about '360-degree feedback'.
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Is the public sector really ready for change? - Reuters
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May 2010
David Jarrett is chief executive at Bath Consultancy Group. The opinions expressed are his own. For many leaders in the public sector it’s one thing to demonstrate a convincing rationale for change, show the graphs and numbers that justify your proposed strategy, draw up a new structure and win a mandate to make change. Yet this is only half the job. The other – perhaps most challenging half – is implementing this new way of working without your best people leaving, morale crashing, performance falling through the floor and dissatisfaction erupting among your customers.
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Leadership Team Coaching - Shining Arrow
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May 2011
Book Review: Leadership Team Coaching.
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Managing Change in Your Business - Accounting Web
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August 2010
Many firms are operating under ‘survive or thrive’ conditions and are looking to make large scale changes – but too many are forgetting their most important transition tool – their people. David Jarrett reports.
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Signed Sealed Delivered - Coaching at Work
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September 2010
With the Royal Mail facing continual upheavels, it needed radical change to help its leaders cope. Liz Hall explains how Lane4 helped embed a coaching culture that is proving something of a quiet.
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Team Coaching Made Easy - CIO Business Technology Leadership
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April 2011
A methodology for building team-level excellence.
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The Benefits of Coaching to HR Remain a Secret - HR Magazine
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October 2010
Aspects of The Coaching Secret's theories left Peter Hawkins, honorary president of the Association for Professional Executive Coaching, wanting - nor was the benefit of coaching to HR adequately explained.
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United Front - Coaching at Work
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May 2011
The perfect leader is a myth. In fact, the future of leadership is in the collective, says Peter Hawkins - and this is where team coaching fits in.
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Coaching at Work
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October 2010
Gil Schwenk challenges managers not to pass on difficult conversations to their coach, instead include them in a three-way dialogue to solve the problem.
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Project Magazine
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October 2008
Sue Pritchard looks at how organisations and partnerships can create the conditions for successful complex programme implementation and delivery.
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Coaching at Work
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March 2008
Peter Hawkins graced the front cover of the March 2008 editon of Coaching at Work. During this in-depth feature Peter spoke to Liz Hall about supervision, social change and spirituality.
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Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice
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December 2007
A paper by Peter Hawkins that explores some of the key challenges facing the growing profession of Coaching. These include: ensuring that coaching is meeting the needs of both the coachee and the organisation, and also that there is demonstrable return on investment.
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Coaching at Work
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December 2007
An article which notes the appointment of Peter Hawkins as the Association of Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision´s first president, and outlines his views of the association's future role.
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Grapevine
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September 2007
Managing and developing the talent within an organisation is a strategic focus. However, there still exists the real challenge of how to involve the organisation and senior managers to champion initiatives. At Tate & Lyle we have taken an innovative approach.
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HR Zone
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August 2007
Tips for the top: Getting the most from executive coaching
Executive coaching is beginning to be seen as less of a solution to a problem and more of a tool to help people realise their full potential. With increasing numbers of top-level executives having tried and benefited from it, Matt Henkes looks at how its effectiveness can be measured with comments from Gil Schwenk of Bath Consultancy Group.
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Financial Director
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July/August 2007
Increased competition and technological advances mean businesses have to change just to survive. Supplied commentary from Peter Hawkins on why strategic change projects fail.
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West Midlands Local Authorities sign up for coaching training and supervision
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July 2007
Twelve West Midlands local authorities and the West Midlands Local Government Association are working in partnership to develop a Regional Coaching Pool to train managers in delivering high quality coaching across the authorities. Bath Consultancy Group has been selected to provide ongoing coaching supervision. The project aims to train 150 local government managers as coaches. The initial funded duration of this programme is two and half years but it is hoped that it becomes sustainable in the long term, not only being one of the UK’s largest coach-training programme but also long running and successful.
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People Management
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June 2007
Tim Smedley reports on the Local Government leadership development enquiry between Wales and Denmark.
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HR Director
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June 2007
With coaching fast becoming the focus of many leadership development programmes, Gil Schwenk, principal consultant at Bath Consultancy group, discusses the four key elements of an effective coaching strategy.
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Strategic HR Review
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May/June 2007
Fiona Ellis draws on the experience of OD and HR professionals in a range of organizations to explore the nature of this relationship.
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People Management
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May 2007
A report from the HRD Conference by Liz Mcann of the BBc and Peter Hawkins.
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People Management
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May 2007
A case study on Coaching/Supervision at the BBC.
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Coaching at Work
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May 2007
An article by Kate Hilpern about "The Case for Coaching" in the legal profession with input from Gil Schwenk.
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Coaching at Work
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May 2007
Comments from readers (including Gil Schwenk) of the April/May issue on goal-setting and how useful is it?
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CIO Magazine
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March 2007
An article on company culture by Janine Milne from interviews with Peter Hawkins, David Jarrett and Paul Freeman.
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Coaching at Work
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March 2007
‘‘Watch with Auntie'. A BBC coaching supervision case study with quotes and interview from Peter Hawkins.
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Public Servant
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March 2007
An article written by Danny Chesterman for Public Servant magazine on holding anxiety in the public sector.
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People Management
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January 2007
Viewpoint from Dr Peter Hawkins on who should pay for coaching supervision.
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People Management
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January 2007
News story on a leadership development inquiry to push forward public service reform in Wales.
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People Management
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November 2006
Fiona Ellis' response on whether OD is really the new HR.
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Coaching at Work
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November 2006
CIPD article on the importance of coaching supervision. Written by Eileen Arney.
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Coaching at Work
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November 2006
News item reporting on the CIPD Coaching at Work conference session given by Professor Peter Hawkins and Gil Schwenk.
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Training & Coaching Today
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October 2006
Review of 'Excellence in Coaching: The industry standard' which includes a chapter by Professor Peter Hawkins.
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