The Scoop
Change and Transformation for 2024
Welcome to The Naked Coaching Club ‘Scoop’ page!
A quick reminder that our Naked Coaching Club has a simple aim; to educate and inspire thought leadership and peer learning to support you, your teams and your culture to perform better in the workplace. Our periodic Scoop page is intended to be a quick, digestible page for you to ’snack’ on, between our events.
Our last Naked Coaching Club was on November 23rd, and it was a vintage! Our teammate Professor Damian Hughes shared his intimate thoughts and views from his latest book, ‘How To Change Your Life’ which launched on the 7th December 2023. Aligned with the strong narrative and insights from the book, we believe there is no better way to kick off the year ahead than to share some insights and thoughts to help you thrive under the theme of 'CHANGE and TRANSFORMATION’.
Please enjoy it, and most of all - please tell us what you’d like more of ahead of next month by clicking here.
Gary Cole, Founder and Partner
Hot Skip Reads
Why does change often fail? The biggest obstacle to change is human resistance. Here Adam Grant shares stories and summarises some practical steps to help overcome this.
Katie McAuley, Partner
To create change, leaders need to show employees, customers, and stakeholders the “art of the possible.” This article highlights three key leadership roles — architect, bridger, and catalyst, or ABCs — to access the talent and tools they need to drive innovation and impact.
Brian Cashman, Partner
Any organisation seeking to improve culture this year should read Peter Fuda's white paper ‘Why we fail to create high-performance cultures’. This paper explores the obstacles that regularly hinder successful development and advocates the need for a well-defined and coordinated strategy that is reliant on leaders who walk the talk.
Kirsten Gillard, Partner
More and more, as we work with ambitious leaders and teams, we are supporting them in delivering transformation and change. This LSE article highlights brilliantly that change in the behaviours of individuals within an organisation should be the key focus, for your efforts to be successful. The research offers ten elements for a “people-centred transformation framework” which I would strongly recommend is worth a read as a starting point for anyone looking to transform their workplace culture.
Sam Finlay, Partner
| TILT365: FREE 60 mins Executive Coaching Session
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TILT365
A rare and unique opportunity to help you CHANGE and TRANSFORM
In collaboration with our partners at Tilt365®, we are giving away a FREE 60 mins Executive Coaching session + debrief of the True Tilt Personality assessment.
There are only 12 spaces available, so please drop Celia a message if you would like to apply by clicking here.
We strongly believe that Tilt365® is the best personality assessment tool on the global marketplace. This is for one reason… behavioural choice is a preference, not innate or fixed. And by choosing to pursue a pathway of more intentional choice, you can reach more powerful outcomes and more meaningful goals.
Interested in reading more about workplace cultures?
Investing in building a generative culture is an investment in making yourself, your team, or your organisation more prepared to tackle whatever comes next in an inclusive and productive way.
Further Reading:
Our Naked Coaching Club event in November 2023 at the Shard was an incredible night. Damian has a way of distilling complex ideas into such simple and tangible tactics we can all use. The book offers the best lessons and takeaways from over 200 episodes of High Performance podcast to serve as your personal guidebook to change, big or small. To buy the new book, click here.
Naked Coaching Club Events
What’s coming up?
Manchester Naked Coaching Club
Date coming soon
Join Professor Damian Hughes and some of our wonderful clients from the North for what promises to be a compelling panel session. The panel will share some of the authentic business challenges we have worked with them on plus their lessons for success. Come and join us for what promises to be a fun and engaging session!
Click here to add your name to the guest list or email celia@archipelo.co.uk
Book Club
Every month we will hand-pick 3 inspirational books around our theme. This month our coaches have chosen their personal recommendations on change and transformation.
Paul Carolan
Partner at Archipelo
“Think Again” by Adam Grant
We’re big fans of Adam Grant at Archipelo and his book Think Again gives the reader a simple but effective mindset and skillset – ‘Rethinking’. Cognitive laziness causes the first instinct fallacy – that we’d prefer to stick with an old/existing perspective than grapple with a new one. Ultimately our desire for predictability makes us resist rethinking. Grant uses a powerful analogy for our ways of predictable thinking - we won’t use Windows 95 but will stick to ideas we formed in 1995. The book really challenges us to have a consistently open mind in your toolkit, enabling us to make discoveries about ourselves and the pathways to better ideas and solutions
Sarah Bussey
Partner at Archipelo
“Mindset” by Carol Dweck
It’s a New Year and on 1st January lots of us will have made some change resolutions for 2024.
Being in the right mindset to achieve and sustain our resolutions is mission critical and Carol Dweck’s seminal million selling book Mindset can really help get us off on the right foot.
Dweck pulls on decades of research on achievement, failure and success and identifies two mindsets – a fixed mindset and a growth mindset – that can have a profound effect on change in our lives. Those with a fixed mindset avoid challenges seeing their abilities set in stone – focusing on the NOW. Those adopting a growth mindset lean into challenge and difficulty believing they can grow through mentoring, hard work and perseverance – focusing on the YET.
Are you approaching your 2024 change resolutions with NOW or YET?
Gary Cole
Founder and Partner
“Personality isn't Permanent” by Benjamin Hardy
The simple premise of this book is that ultimately our personalities are a simple matter of choice, rather than innate.
The author offers a compelling rationale and a practical toolkit, outlining how to ‘project manage’ our behavioural choices to reach more meaningful goals and pursuits. It is simple, easy to read and all of our Senior Coaching clients appear to love it too. My favourite tip is ‘forcing function’ which I now use regularly to change things!
