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07 Mar 2025

Use a Train-the-Trainer to secure your organization’s future

By salomons.coach
In Blog, Closing leadership capability gaps

Empowering experts to transfer their invaluable technical and tacit knowledge ensures organizational resilience and growth. A Train-the-Trainer program equips seasoned professionals to mentor successors, preserving expertise, accelerating skill development, and fostering a culture of learning. Future-proof your workforce by transforming knowledge into a living asset that drives innovation and long-term success.

28 Feb 2025

What’s in Your Leadership “Shopping Cart”? Shaping Your Narrative for Growth

What’s in your leadership “shopping cart”? The narratives we tell ourselves shape our identity, decisions, and effectiveness as leaders. This post explores the "Shopping Cart Theory" as a metaphor for self-reflection, highlighting how minor actions reveal deeper leadership qualities. By examining what you carry—accomplishments, fears, or values—you can reshape your story to unlock growth, authenticity, and resilience. Discover how small, conscious choices and a guided coaching process can transform your leadership journey.

21 Feb 2025

Exponential growth through self-awareness

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14 Feb 2025

Transforming Year-End Reviews: From Obligation to Opportunity

By salomons.coach
In Blog, Closing leadership capability gaps

Do your performance appraisals feel routine? Year-end reviews often become dreaded events that yield little benefit. What if these sessions were opportunities to strengthen relationships and boost performance? Picture a shift from evaluation to teamwork, where you set goals together and motivate your team. By fostering open conversations, you can enhance performance and build trust. Learn to make these meetings strategic for your team's growth—rather than just checking a box.

07 Feb 2025

VUCA defined (again, but more readable)

By salomons.coach
In Blog, Leading through uncertainty and crisis

landscape with mountains and VUCA in front

VUCA—volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity—defines today’s fast-changing business world. Leaders face rapid change, unclear outcomes, and interconnected challenges daily. Recognizing VUCA in action helps leaders respond effectively. By understanding its components and adopting agile strategies, leaders can make better decisions, build clarity, and guide their teams through uncertainty with confidence.

24 Jan 2025

My Integrated Coaching Framework for Exponential Growth and Success

By salomons.coach
In Blog, Closing leadership capability gaps

man with backpak jumping to other rock in front of sea and blue sky with setting sun

co-active coaching model & methodology

21 Jan 2025

Overcoming the Leadership Communication Gap

Miscommunication is a leading cause of workplace inefficiency and conflict, often resulting in misunderstandings, reduced productivity, and increased tension. Studies highlight how poor communication impacts team dynamics, leading to incorrect assumptions and diminished morale. Addressing these challenges requires fostering clarity, active listening, and emotional intelligence to create stronger connections and avoid conflict. Effective communication not only resolves workplace issues but also enhances collaboration and trust, driving both individual and organizational success.

17 Jan 2025

What Harvard Business Review has really taught us about coaching

By salomons.coach
In Blog, Closing leadership capability gaps

Over the past decade, Harvard Business Review has shown that coaching is not about fixing people—it's about helping leaders rise. HBR highlights coaching as a collaborative partnership that strengthens self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and the ability to navigate complexity. From executive development to performance and long-term growth, the research is clear: coaching improves leadership behavior, deepens team trust, and creates healthier, more resilient organizations. At its core, effective coaching is built on listening, reflective questioning, aligned goals, and honest accountability—exactly the foundations of modern leadership in a VUCA world.

10 Jan 2025

Effectiveness of coaching vs a leadership development program

By salomons.coach
In Blog, Closing leadership capability gaps

Effectiveness of Coaching vs Leadership Development Programs. Organizations invest heavily in leadership development, spending up to 5% of annual revenue on training programs, yet only 11% of executives report these initiatives meet expectations. Research shows leadership training can boost job performance by 20%, but challenges remain in achieving sustained results. Leadership coaching, on the other hand, offers a personalized approach, boasting a 96% satisfaction rate and an ROI six times its cost. It excels in fostering behavioral changes and leadership effectiveness. Combining these approaches integrates cost-efficient group learning with high-ROI individual coaching, yielding powerful results. Let’s explore how this can work for your organization.

03 Jan 2025

Creating a safe and speak-up culture in teams

Creating an environment of psychological safety is vital for team trust and collaboration. Leaders can achieve this by modeling vulnerability, encouraging inclusive participation, establishing clear communication norms, implementing structured reflection, providing support, and monitoring team dynamics. Key strategies include sharing personal mistakes, seeking feedback, promoting open dialogue, valuing diverse perspectives, setting respectful interaction expectations, conducting regular debriefs, offering training, and assessing psychological safety. These practices empower team members to express ideas and take risks, fostering a culture of innovation and mutual respect, ultimately enhancing team performance.