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Creating Success with Management Coaching in Bristol: Empowering Leaders and Transforming Organisations

As organisations navigate the complexities of the modern business landscape, the demand for effective leadership and strategic decision-making has never been higher. This is where the significance of management coaching in Bristol comes into play.

This blog delves deep into the realm of management coaching in Bristol, exploring how it empowers leaders, transforms organisations, and contributes to the city's thriving business ecosystem.

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Coaching, Leadership, Time Management Lucy Duggan Coaching, Leadership, Time Management Lucy Duggan

Starting a New Project: The 4 Pillars of Success

We have found that the key to planning and starting a new project begins with getting 4 essential pillars in place before we begin. These pillars are set by asking 4 indispensable questions.

Pillar 1: WHY. Sharpening up our notion on the purpose and value of the project lays the strong foundation that every project needs. You’re tapping into the emotional motivation to get started and to keep pushing on with it when it runs into any challenges. 

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Why leaders need to take workplace resilience seriously

One of the reasons why leaders need to take workplace resilience seriously is that it creates an organisational culture that is fit for the future.

Almost every one of us has an awareness that we are living in times of massive change. The old world is passing away and the emergent world is not yet in full view.

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3 things bosses can do to build resilience and wellbeing in the workplace

Research suggests that if you let people be self-directed (in the context of clear parametres and support) it will boost commitment to the organisation, not diminish it. Once an organisation embarks on a sincerely felt mission to foster employee wellbeing, all sorts of weird, wonderful and unexpected directions or travel emerge.

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What Does a Successful Team Look Like?

A successful team is nothing if not a motivated team. Broadly speaking, empowerment is a short-cut to motivation.

Knowing each other in a social sense, not just a role sense, knowing what makes everyone tick as individuals, and communicating the company vision in a way that strikes a chord with all, that fosters that sense of belonging too. 

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How Does Leadership Affect Workplace Culture?

How does a good leader lead? And how does leadership affect the culture in the workplace?

We all know how bad leaders lead – we’ve all heard about, or directly survived the bosses from hell who create organisational cultures that are poisonous. See our list of the symptoms of a toxic work culture.

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How does forest immersion promote business innovation?

We believe that forest immersion can provide a super-boost to any organisation’s innovative capacity.

Here’s how:

Observing nature’s processes, patterns and practices give rise to elegant solutions to complex problems. This is a practise often referred to as biomimicry.

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What is eco wellness and how it can strengthen your business?

When the people working in your business have appreciation, respect and awe for nature, some excellent business outcomes follow. There really are some important ways that strengthening the connection between your team with the natural world will strengthen your business.

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How forest training can benefit your organisation: Containment

A major factor in why forest training benefits organisations is that when teams spend facilitated time in nature, as a group and as individuals, they experience the creation of a strong container and a felt sense of containment. 

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What difference does resilience training make?

Besides being fun and interesting, and perhaps ticking a few well-being related boxes, what will it actually do for their team and for their organisation?

On a very basic level, the difference that resilience training makes is that it brings awareness to the multiple components that contribute to resilience.

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Nature’s Nebuliser – Why spending time in the forest is good for you

One of the many interesting things that we learnt was what ‘phytoncides’ do to humans. These are the plant chemicals that trees release into the air to protect themselves from bacteria, insects and fungi. They also act as signals that communicate with other tress.

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