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Our recent research with CEO’s in Scotland’s Private Sector has shown a degree of confusion between Training and Corporate Coaching. We thought it time to clarify the issue.

When applied well Corporate Coaching creates short and long-term benefits for all stakeholders – at Organisation, Team and Individual levels.

In our opinion the key benefits of why CEO’s should engage and get involved with Corporate Coaching at each level include:

Organisation level:
Improved organisation performance
High… Continue

According to Jonathan Passmore’s book “Excellence in Coaching” the return on investment (ROI) of coaching was measured at 529% (and an astonishing 788% when including the financial benefits from employee retention) for a coaching programme integral to a leadership programme implemented at Nortel Networks (Anderson et al 2002; MetrixGlobal 2005).

The Manchester study in 2001 (Johnson 2004) measured a return of 5.7 times the initial investment for executive coaching and one-to-one career coaching… Continue

Along with our media partner CA Magazine, the official journal of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, we are delighted to publish Part One of our research into the attitudes of Business Leaders in the private sector in Scotland towards values and culture, the role they play in building long-term sustainable organisations, and in the development of competitive advantage.

The attached PDF file contains the results in the editorial double page spread from the August edition of CA M… Continue

Working with clients in the UK Financial Services sector since before the collapse of the two largest British Banks and the subsequent stock market roller coaster has become a real eye opener as we see into these organisations in a way we probably would not have under the 'old' regime.

Recently concentrating on the Building Society sector we have been staggered to hear and see the how the backwash of the Banking crisis is directly effecting their activities.

The FSA are trying to treat Buildin… Continue

Our requests to conduct in-depth, face-to-face interviews with Scottish Business Leaders is receiving a positive response.

As a follow up to our initial research in May 2009 into the attitudes of Business Leaders in Scotland towards the role of Culture, Values, Leadership, & the importance of developing Competitive Advantage in building successful, long-term sustainable organisations, this second round of activity aims at answering the many questions raised by the May research.

In the last… Continue