David Noer, the Frank S. Holt Jr. Professor of Business Leadership in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, has had two columns published in February - one in the latest edition of Business Coaching Worldwide, and the other in the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.
“Plain and Simple: Powerful Guidelines for Coaching in Troubled Times” (Business Coaching Worldwide) offers four pieces of advice for business coaches who may be finding their clients coming to them recently with more “heart” (emotional) problems than “head” (data and logic) problems.
Business Coaching Worldwide is a popular online journal for business coaches and serves as a practitioner-oriented publication that accepts articles only from experienced executive coaches.
To read the full column, click on the link to the right of this page.
He also published a monthly column in the News & Record, “Leading in tough times,” focused on leading during turbulent economic periods. Noer discussed three traps that get in the way of effective leadership:
1.) “Gunnysacking” – using layoffs and economic decline as an excuse to “get” either people or functions that have angered, hurt, or frustated you in the past.
2.) The Cost Cutting Activity trap – getting so personally involved in micro-managing cost reduction that you neglect the primary leadership role of “re-recruiting” a demoralized work force.
3.) Using the skills and approaches that worked when leading on the way up. Leading a system in decline requires very different skills.
To read the column, click on the link to the right.