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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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