Develop Potential | Executive Coaching, Staff Development and Performance Management

Our recent breakfast workshop was a huge success! ran out of chairs! We are holding another free workshop as part of the Innovation Dublin Festival this week. Contact me if you would like to join us on Friday at 9:30am in the Guinness Enterprise Centre in Dublin 8.

In collaboration with Terence Daly of "Think Twice" we are running a workshop in the Red Cow Hotel on Thur 20th October, 8 - 9:30 am, entitled "Fresh Thinking for your Business". This is aimed at business owners who are looking for a fresh approach to tackling the challenges they face

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Looking forward to hearing latest thinking of participants at this Friday's annual conference. Theme is very relevant - redefining leadership requirements in the current climate. All our team will be attending. We will report back!

We are getting great interest in our L&D forum for this friday 16th. Expecting 25 L&D professionals to share their ideas and thoughts on motivating and engaging staff in the current environment where fresh financial incentives are very limited. We would be glad to share key learnings after the event if you want to contact us! 

In case you hadn't already noticed, we are getting a lot of encouragement to be more creative and innovative in our enterprises. This makes sense for the current Irish business environment. Productivity and Innovation are going to be the key opportunities of the future. While we can improve productivity - there may be some practical limits. Whereas our ability to be innovative is unlimited.

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I attended a workshop last Tuesday evening, presented by Sir John Whitmore,  one of the most well known  and respected authorities on coaching.  His book "Coaching for Performance" is probably the most widely read text on modern coaching techniques

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Last night I attended a lecture in the beautiful surroundings of the Royal Irish Academy, which took the form of an interview between Leo Enright and Astronaut Joe Edwards. Joe talked passionately and with confidence about his career and how it led him to pilot the space shuttle for rendezvous with the International Space Station. He told stories about how Ireland looked from space and how the

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I had the opportunity to interview some senoir managers last week for a business article. My job was to ask lots of questions so that I could get fresh material - this also involved checking and clarifying my understanding.  A curious thing happened in each case - by the end of the interview the person I was interviewing  had gotten into a deeply reflective mode  and was thinking

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Worked with a client last week who was facing challenges with a new management role in a large organisation. A lot of the concerns were about communication and getting support from fellow managers - however the biggest insight was that self belief was critical and had to be rebuilt. Those that succeed in their goals tend to have strong self belief and find ways to reinforce that confidence. It is

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Our sailing crew got the result from last two races of the summer season- we were delighted to get a couple of first places (after applying handicaps!). This was a huge improvement on first part of season when we were glad to finish the course within sight of the rest of the fleet! Great at the end of our first season crewing together. The lesson was that we needed to literally

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