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Moyra Mackie helps leaders and teams to work with courage, compassion and creativity. She is an executive coach and consultant and the founder of Mackie Consulting.
As a professional coach perhaps I shouldn’t be saying this, but:
“Anyone can be a coach.”
And what’s more, you don’t have to be shut in a room one-on-one to flex those coaching muscles.
Coaching moments happen all the time
You might be having coffee with a colleague or friend, leaving a meeting, picking up the kids or sitting down to dinner with the family.
In any of these moments, someone is bound to say something that describes their situation – “I’m stuck” – or their emotions – “I’m sad, mad or surprised”.
Moyra Mackie helps leaders and teams to work with courage, compassion and creativity. She is an executive coach and consultant and the founder of Mackie Consulting.
How many times have you tried to change something in your work or personal life, only to find yourself drifting back to your old habits?
Even when we know that the change we want to see makes logical, rational sense – giving up smoking, exercising more, balancing work and life – we often fail to make the change.
Why do we act against our own best interests?
Well the answer came when I was handing out these postcards this week.
The Tolstoy quote has resonated with most people, but one conversation in particular stands out. On seeing the quote one of my clients said:
“small changes…that’s so true. Except that I usually make big changes.”
“And how does that work out?” I asked.
“Well sometimes it works, many times it doesn’t and sometimes it’s chaos.”
Which is an answer Tolstoy, a master of observing the small details of peoples’ actions and attitudes, could have predicted.
Moyra Mackie helps leaders and teams to work with courage, compassion and creativity. She is an executive coach and consultant and the founder of Mackie Consulting.
Richard Smith is a leader in the environmental industry, consulting with the University of Hertfordshire. His role includes consulting, management training and executive coaching. He is a believer in development and learning, especially in relational settings. The day we stop learning is our last on Earth, until then we never know the limits of how much we can grow.
Recently I was coaching a client – let’s call him Joe – who told me he was seriously considering leaving his company.
When I asked him why, Joe didn’t mention anything about the merits of his company’s competitors.
What he did talk about was his boss
“I don’t get any feedback. I’m told no news is good news but I don’t know what I’m doing right and I don’t think I can learn and grow if I don’t know exactly where and how to improve or challenge myself.”
So I asked him what he could do to change this situation
Moyra Mackie helps leaders and teams to work with courage, compassion and creativity. She is an executive coach and consultant and the founder of Mackie Consulting.
by Guest contributor John Stepper on August 30, 2013
From the age of 5 to 23, I spent much of my weekdays with teachers. People I could learn from or rely on for help or guidance. Then, for decades after, I stopped.
As I struggled through some of the most difficult times in work and life, I almost never asked for help at all.
Isn’t that odd? Why would I get more instruction and assistance for trigonometry than for making work and life more fulfilling?
What is coaching, anyway?
For sure, there have been helpful people in my life.
My parents were supportive but lacked the experience to help me at work.
I’ve had the occasional good manager, but most lacked the empathy and emotional objectivity you need in a good coach. After all, you can’t reasonably expose your fears and weaknesses about work to the same person who’s paying you for that work.
If these people can’t coach you, who can? And what would they do?
John is changing how people work at Deutsche Bank using collaboration platforms, communities of practice, and public social media.
He writes about making work more effective and fulfilling at johnstepper.com and on Twitter as @johnstepper
by Guest contributor Sheri Spencer on August 16, 2013
We are all leaders
Leading is the way we motivate and move others and ourselves into action.
We all lead in every area of our lives, either intentionally with purpose and passion or by default, unaware of our influence and impact.
What kind of leader are you?
Every day there are endless opportunities for all of us to lead and to harness the powerful energy that exists within and around us.
This energy shows in our thoughts, emotions and actions. Individuals exhibit energy, but so do groups. These forces can be destructive or constructive.
The founder of the Institute for Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), Bruce D. Schneider, categorizes within Energy Leadership ™ the types as either:
catabolic (destructive) or
anabolic (constructive)
These energy categories are further divided into 7 Levels of Energy
Each level is characterized by a set of thoughts, emotions and actions.
The Individuals or groups that are primarily catabolic react to their circumstances with worry, fear, doubt, blame and anger.
Those that are primarily anabolic take responsibility for their thoughts, emotions and actions, look for and create opportunities that engage, enable and empower all, with an authentic ability to motivate, inspire themselves and others to be extraordinary.
An Energy Level is not good or bad; there are advantages and disadvantages at each level. It really depends on the situation and the desired outcome.
Sheri Spencer practices Energy Leadership Coaching. This partnership enables and empowers you to connect your inner purpose and passion with your outer goals to fulfill your aspirations and potential. As a coach, her only agenda is to help you achieve and sustain what you most deeply desire, so that you grow from good to great.
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” ~ T.S Eliot
And this is the end where I start from
At the age of 10 I helped my family to sell everything we owned and almost everything we treasured.
It took hours for me, my brother and sister and my mum and dad, to carry the contents of our house outside and arrange them neatly on the lawn.
I remember seeing the dinner service my parents had been given as a wedding gift, my mum’s wedding dress and assortment of hats, handbags and shoes. I remember the beautiful walnut drinks cabinet with mirrored inlay and our wooden trunk of toys.
I can still see the people from Victoria Falls (pop. 16,000) coming to wander round our garden; inspecting those things which had so little monetary value, but meant so much to the five of us who named the price and took the Rhodesian dollars.
Then we packed up our lives in eight metal trunks and began the journey south by rail to Cape Town and north by sea to Southampton.
Our family began our new life in England on July 4th 1977
My parents had four children under the age of 11, one thousand Rhodesian dollars, no work and no credit history.
Moyra Mackie helps leaders and teams to work with courage, compassion and creativity. She is an executive coach and consultant and the founder of Mackie Consulting.
Have you or your company ever used management consultants?
Every year in the US alone, more than $396bn is spent on management and IT consulting, so the chances are there is a consultant somewhere near you, right now.
Moyra Mackie helps leaders and teams to work with courage, compassion and creativity. She is an executive coach and consultant and the founder of Mackie Consulting.
Moyra Mackie helps leaders and teams to work with courage, compassion and creativity. She is an executive coach and consultant and the founder of Mackie Consulting.
