The Scoop
Welcome to The Naked Coaching Club ‘Scoop’ page!
For years we have provided clients, partners and friends with our Naked Coaching Club events - with the primary aim of helping you to perform better in your workplace. Our new Scoop page is intended to be a digestible page for you to ’snack’ on insights, tips and downloads.
We will try our best to unify the theme of each Scoop page in direct response to live trends and challenges we are actively working on with clients. The loose theme for this page is around human needs and belonging as a foundation for high-performance culture. Please enjoy it, and most of all - please tell us what you’d like more of ahead of next month.
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Hot Skip Reads
Paul Carolan, Partner
Replacing all managers with coaches is an extreme way of increasing employee happiness, but the learnings to increase engagement and belonging are key - goal setting, feedback, development opportunities, and autonomy.
Gary Cole, Founder and Director
Making more disciplined behavioural choices against your core values, can lead to a dramatic improvement in performance, and more purposeful work output. Find out how to do it here.
We often talk to clients about the latent and unused power of feedback. This article frames feedback through the lens of uncertainty, something many are experiencing right now. It also highlights the importance of the leaderseeking feedback, alongside 6 practical tips to ease the way. All brought to life with brilliant lizandmollie visuals.
Sarah Bussey, Partner
BOOK NOW: New for leaders: Managing & Inspiring Peak Performance |
BOOK NOW: New for leaders: Managing & Inspiring Peak Performance |
Open Courses
An early opportunity to sign up to our exciting new open course 'Managing and Inspiring Peak Performance'. Aimed at leaders, emerging talent or small groups. Our 2-day public course will sharpen your leadership skills, boost performance and enhance your organisational culture.
If you want to read more, follow this link or chat to Celia about this wonderful opportunity
Naked Coaching Club Events
Our popular thought leadership events are passionately focused on helping our clients confront and resolve live challenges they are facing, through 'mingling', peer learning and knowledge sharing. They have always been free and will always be free.
To find out more about the 6 themes that Professor Damian Hughes covered in our latest NCC, here is our action-packed summary.
Setting the scene with High Performance
Navigating 'Growing pains'
Enabling Empowerment - the stepping up challenge
Balancing healthy culture vs holding people to account
Selecting the next best steps for the status quo
Motivating staff vs incentives that are hard to achieve
What’s coming up?
Manchester
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 night!
NCC Downloads
The Naked Coaching Club is about peer learning and learning while doing differently! That’s why we are offering you some free downloads to 'snack’ on and to experiment with.
Whole Diagram
Our in-house performance coaching model seeks to combine and simplify the complex area of human ‘wants and needs’ as the basis for goals, rather than starting with a goal itself. It’s very revealing about where you are deficient, so download and get involved!
The Bigger Picture
Remember Maslow’s hierarchy of needs from your Sociology A-Level?? Well, it was recently discovered that Maslow never intended the needs to be a hierarchy at all!
The implication for your workplace is that we all have a need for the bigger picture, so time to improve the communication to your teams about your strategic framework/stated ambitions!
Book Club
Every month we will hand-pick 4 inspirational books around our theme. This month our coaches have chosen their personal recommendations on belonging and human need.
Sam Finlay
Partner at Archipelo
“Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race” by Reni Eddo-Lodge
To feel a real sense of belonging will be different for different people. It requires you to be understood, valued, welcome, equal and included. I strongly recommend this book to everyone as a provocative reminder that not everyone sees the world in the way you do.
If you are genuinely looking to create an inclusive and thriving environment for all, then understanding others is the foundation. This powerful book will kick start your reflective practice to think and act differently.
Brian Cashman
Partner at Archipelo
“Belonging” by Owen Eastwood
If you're seeking a thought-provoking and soul-stirring read, "Belonging" by Owen Eastwood is a book that deserves a spot on your reading list. In this captivating work, Eastwood explores the universal human need for connection, acceptance, and a sense of belonging through the lens of his Maori heritage.
Through powerful storytelling and insightful anecdotes, Eastwood delves into the intricacies of human relationships, identity, and finding our place in the world. The book explores the various dimensions of belonging, including cultural, societal, and personal, unravelling the impact it has on our well-being and fulfilment. Eastwood's ability to blend vulnerability, wisdom, and empathy makes "Belonging" a captivating and relatable exploration of a topic that resonates with us all.
Kirsten Gillard
Partner at Archipelo
“Fear Less, How to Win Your Way in Work and Life” by Pippa Grange
If you are fascinated by personal growth, intrigued to understand more about why we think and act as we do, then this is a good read for you. This book tackles the subject of ‘fear’, now we’re not talking heights or spiders… initially it delves into just how prevalent fear is in our history, society, workplaces, families, before most notably focussing on how it shows up in our beliefs, as ‘the fear of not being good enough’.
The book examines how fear can infiltrate our lives, govern decisions, damage relationships, steal fun, and if that wasn’t enough, it can also keep us small (it nearly stopped me from writing this review) and ultimately how it dares to stop us from achieving our full potential!
Fear Less is brimming with tips to look fear in the metaphorical eye, square up to it and replace it with something more useful in pursuit of greater growth, achievement and happiness. This book is a practical read, jam-packed with excellent case studies, making it very easy to spot where fear is lurking in our own lives. The author, Dr Pippa Grange, is a renowned sports psychologist and culture coach who helped transform the England team in 2018, so there is a detectable and insightful sporting theme throughout.
Katie McAuley
Partner at Archipelo
“The Art of Possibilities”
by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
This book is well known as the origin of the ‘Zander letter’, a concept based on the story of how Benjamin’s Zander was able to support and inspire all his students to achieve ‘A’ grades by reframing the challenge using a highly effective visualisation exercise. The book presents a much bigger belief at its core – that have invented our worlds and how we judge ourselves – and so it follows that we can also change and reinvent the boundaries, opening up a ‘Universe of possibilities’.
The book is co-written by this husband and wife team, and whilst the concept at times can be abstract, the real joy and value in this book is the practical application of this philosophy through Rosamund’s work as a therapist and Benjamin’s works as a conductor/teacher. It raises awareness of our self-imposed limitations and gives tangible examples of how to nurture this mindset/behaviour by encouraging humour and compassion – an uplifting read.
