Coaching for Leaders

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Coaching for Leaders focuses on practical leadership development, mentoring, communication, and management skills for people leading teams and organizations.

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Included for practical guidance on practical leadership development, mentoring, communication, and management skills for people leading teams and organizations.

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Compliance & regulation

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How to prevent corruption in organisations: a systemic approach

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Compliance & regulation 8
Conflict resolution 6
Processes & SOPs 5
  • Removing bad actors without fixing institutions changes nothing.
  • Anticipate corrupt meetings — never attend high-risk ones alone.
  • Reputational risk now outweighs legal risk for many businesses.

Customer discovery

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How to pivot quickly using lean startup and customer discovery

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Customer discovery 10
Pivoting 8
MVP & prototyping 7
  • Your MVP cost can drop from $1M to $0.50 with the right framing
  • Validate the problem before showing anyone what you're building
  • Payment is the only real signal — enthusiasm is not validation

Founder interviews

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How vision and persistence drove a facilities management pioneer in Nigeria

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Founder interviews 10
Resilience & grit 8
Identity & self-belief 6
  • Lost $3,000 and was rejected five times — kept going anyway
  • Failure led directly to founding IFMA's Accra chapter in Ghana
  • Do the thing you'd do without pay — everything else is just economics

Vision & mission

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Translating leadership vision into results with a five-step decision formula

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Vision & mission 9
Management 6
  • Most leadership teams have no written three-year vision — ever.
  • Five-step CFARL formula turns vision into measurable, iterable outcomes.
  • Attach to the vision and data; stay flexible on execution method.

Productivity & habits

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How your brain's survival wiring shapes learning and performance

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Productivity & habits 8
Culture building 6
  • Your brain predicts everything — learning only happens when predictions fail.
  • Depleted body budgets kill learning before any teaching begins.
  • Five minutes of daily deliberate experience retrains how your brain predicts.

Management

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How to be a better mentor: practical principles from the research

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Management 9
Communication 7
  • Informal mentoring relationships consistently outperform formal programme pairings.
  • Listening to respond shuts off comprehension — ask questions instead.
  • Opening your network, not just your time, is the mentor's highest-leverage move.

Culture building

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How to advance your career through intrapreneurship and personal branding

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Culture building 8
Business operating systems 7
Identity & self-belief 6
  • Reverse mentoring: junior employees teach executives technology in return
  • CEO sponsorship is the single biggest predictor of program success
  • Owning a niche and helping others freely drives career advancement faster than credentials

Public speaking

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Handling Q&A with confidence: the ADD framework

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Public speaking 9
Communication 7
  • Treat Q&A as dialogue, not dodgeball — mindset changes everything.
  • The ADD framework structures any answer: Answer, Detail, Describe relevance.
  • Always prepare a closing statement and a back-pocket question in advance.

Communication

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How to influence and manage multiple stakeholders at work

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Communication 9
Project management 7
  • Ask stakeholders directly "Can you hit the deadline?" — then pause
  • Treat difficult people as challenges: retell their story back to them
  • Executive support outweighs methodology, plans, and team effort combined

Communication

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How to escape the advice trap and lead with curiosity

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Communication 9
Delegation 8
Identity & self-belief 5
  • The first problem someone states is rarely the real problem.
  • Letting others find their own answer beats giving a brilliant one.
  • Interrupting a rambling conversation is an act of good coaching.

Time management

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Giving up on "done": how leaders manage competing demands

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Time management 7
Culture building 7
Communication 5
  • Effortless productivity is a myth — build ease, not output.
  • A 90-day brain dump forces the painful but clarifying cut to six priorities.
  • Strengths mismatches, not low performers, are what organisations should fix.

Productivity & habits

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How leaders learn through pattern thinking and active application

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Productivity & habits 8
Competitive analysis 6
  • Cool Ranch Doritos came from the salad dressing aisle, not the snack aisle.
  • Avid learning without action changes nothing — follow-through mechanisms are the key.
  • Strong conviction becomes a liability when it stops you learning from disruptors.

Hiring & recruitment

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How to build an inclusive hiring process that attracts overlooked talent

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Hiring & recruitment 9
Culture building 5
  • Gendered job listing words cut female applicants — swapping them costs nothing.
  • Blind résumé review eliminates name-based bias before any interview happens.
  • Degree requirements exclude qualified candidates without improving hire quality.

Culture building

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Meetings as a symptom: Seth Godin on significance at work

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Culture building 8
Management 7
Identity & self-belief 5
  • Most meetings are managers taking attendance, not conversations
  • 300 volunteers built a book in 5 months with zero meetings
  • Tolerating bullies costs more than firing them ever would

Delegation

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Lessons in diplomacy and leadership from Susan Rice

Coaching for Leaders July 22, 2024


Delegation 9
Founder interviews 8
Resilience & grit 6
  • Brutal feedback at 32 forced a complete leadership reckoning
  • People follow decisions they disagree with if they felt truly heard
  • Political attacks cost innocent families — children who never chose public life

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