How To Assess And Improve Collective Team Performance
Happy to share 6 simple actions you can take to raise the performance of your leadership team + a benchmark of 20 behaviors great team-players adopt that sustain high performance.
The stakes are about superior value creation as well as well-being, engagement, collective intelligence, and agility across your whole organization.
And a momentous upside of any behavioral progress your leadership team makes is that it cascades throughout your company because employees adopt -over time- their senior leaders’ behaviors.
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Nine Reasons Leaders Are Hiring Executive Coaches, And What Happens Next
The Covid-19 crisis confirmed executive coaching’s effectiveness via videoconferencing and its proficiency at enhancing leaders’ mental health, energy and clarity in challenging times. Consequently, the steep growth of the executive coaching profession is accelerating further.
The continued crisis and its fallout have also significantly evolved the reasons why high-potential leaders decide to hire executive coaches.
What are the current top nine triggers of their decisions?
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Seven Things Exceptional Leaders Do That Bolster Their Success
What is it that exceptional leaders do to consistently succeed beyond expectations? The answer took shape right in front of me for over 15 years, as I learned about exceptional leadership in action from those I have been privileged to coach, more than any course possibly could have taught me.
Attempting to summarize my learning from them made me realize that their exceptional leadership is underpinned by seven things they do, all captured in the acronym LEADERS; namely: love, enable, assemble, dare, embolden, reach and sustain.
Here are snapshots of why and how exceptional leaders engage with their people in that singular way.
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Seven Self-Empowering Practices For Women To Bring Out More Of Their Leadership Greatness
I invite you to set the parameters of your optimal lifestyle within the OECD’s Better Life Index and discover the countries best matching it. Aren’t they governed by gender-balanced groups of female and male leaders?
Next, check the 2021 Fragile States Index of the most unstable nations, and you’ll be reminded that the countries with the worst scores are led solely by men.
Business suffer from gender imbalance too.
Read more here.
Tough questions to answer before you shape the future of your business, your teams and yourself
When was the last time you paused and asked yourself how do I need to evolve as a strategist, a leader and a person to best shape the future of my business, my teams and myself? That’s a question I often ask senior leaders the first time I meet them. And most exclaim, “too long ago!” When my eyes repeat the query, they usually add, somewhat apologetically, “before the latest crisis.” And that can’t be right.
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Reinvent your coaching practice with Artistry, to embody inspiration and co-create far greater value
Coaches need to reinvent their practice now. A lot is at stake:
- Staying relevant while artificial intelligence (AI) tries to outsmart humans at problem-solving
- Co-creating far greater value with clients going forward
- Making the coaching profession a compelling source of inspiration
Here I will share why enriching coaching competencies with coaches’ innate artistry is critically important and how coaches can do so effectively.
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Successful Leaders Must Become ‘e-CIA Agents’ — Here’s Why And How
Navigating 2020’s stormy seas was not easy. 2021 can reward you with opportunities to conquer “blue oceans”, to borrow a phrase from Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. How will you effectively lead your people across high seas toward those bounties?
I suggest three imperatives for leaders on such a conquest and several proven, concrete and simple action you can take to succeed.
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Thrive Again By Reinventing Your Leadership With Your Inner Artist
How we are, how we think and how we lead are what brought us to our current profound crisis. Logically, we won’t rebound high and long if we don’t profoundly change. What, then, needs to happen deep within us as leaders so we can thrive anew?
“A reinvention, inspired by our innate artistry, of the way we are, think and lead” is the answer that progressively formed in my mind after more than 10,000 coaching conversations with executives.
Read more here.
Catalyze Your Team’s Collective Intelligence With Five Practices For Crisis Time
How will you find the best way forward for your business in our crisis-prone, volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world? No leader is smart enough anymore to do it alone. But the collective intelligence of diverse teams stands a chance.
Read more here.
来自10000教练小时的领悟-拥有美好生活的十条洞见
Co-Wisdom, China
自2006年起，JF为800多位高管和团队提供教练服务，客户来自汽车、通信、咨询、IT等行业和非营利组织。
JF有丰富的企业高层管理经验，曾担任500强企业的董事总经理。在拉法基集团工作过15年，担任部门战略副总裁、亚洲区副总裁、大中华区董事总经理。
10 insights e 10 dicas para Coaches, colhidas em mais de 10.000 horas de Coaching (in Brazilian Portuguese)
Ao celebrar minha conclusão de 10.000 horas de Coaching, sou muito grato às pessoas a quem tive o privilégio de servir – eles me ensinaram mais do que eu poderia imaginar, e especialmente sobre como ser um Coach melhor para eles!
Interview: ICF Global Chair – Jean-Francois Cousin
CoachingLife, Australia
An interview with Jean-Francois Cousin, Speaker, Author, Master Certified Coach (ICF) and Chair of the Global Board 2019, International Coach Federation
Reinventing leadership at work
HRM, Singapore
Written in two parts, Game Changers at the Circus first unveils a compelling fable about the transformation of a sluggish circus, where animal leaders are stirred to organize the greatest performance possible from their teams.
Tips for making faster decisions
FM Magazine, USA
While automation and big data create tremendous potential to reshape our world and create new possibilities, the rapid pace at which information and insights are coming at businesses requires them to act quickly to stay ahead of the game.
Winning In A VUCA World With A Culture of Agile Collaboration
SIM Management 360, Singapore
Leaders can create the culture of agile collaboration needed for success in challenging business environments by attaining four leadership levels.
Setting up Thai leaders for success in Asia and worldwide, The Nation
The Nation, Thailand
How can CEOs and human-resources executives best help Thai leaders contribute more of their unique strengths to regional and global teams and to attain world-class leadership standards?
“Cousin Leads the Circus!”
Gavroche Magazine, Thailand
Jean-François Cousin, un coach d’entreprises basé en Asie depuis 20 ans, vient de publier un ouvrage en anglais sur la gestion d’équipes, à l’usage dit-il, « des leaders fatigués… des livres trop sérieux.»
The Nation: Our world of increasing ‘VUCA’ calls for the rise of the monkey in you
The Nation, Thailand
The start of this Year of the Monkey may well be a critical time to unleash more of the smart, curious, agile, playful monkey in you!
First peer business coaching session held
The Nation, Thailand
The leadership team of the newly founded Bangkok Chapter of the International Coach Federation recently held the country’s first ever peer business-coaching session.
Inspire your employees
The Straits Times, Singapore
Organizations should look at ways to motivate employees in a sustainable manner. What can you do, as a leader, to inspire and engage the people around you? Read on for some simple ways.
Recognizing toxic leadership
Business Times, Singapore
“I am opposed to a paternalistic approach to management. It may sound nice, but it’s self-preserving at the expense of employees’ growth… It looks caring, but it’s selfish and toxic.” – Jean-Francois Cousin.
Game Changers at the Circus
HR Magazine, Singapore
Each workplace has its share of autocratic lions, peace-loving elephants, nonchalant chimpanzees, eager beavers and single-tracked eagles…
How Leaders in Asia Can Change the Game
The Edge, Singapore
If there are three major success ingredients could match the AEC acronym, most business leaders would propose employees’ “Agility, Engagement and Collaboration” – the three characteristics of winning corporations. How can leaders in Asia “change the game” and embed them?
6 ways for Asian leaders to build collaboration and agility
Human Resources Online, Singapore
Jean-François Cousin, author of Game Changers at the Circus, analyses how leaders across Asian and Western cultures can adapt their leadership styles, in this conversation with Jerene Ang.
‘Game Changers at the Circus’: An unconventional leadership book launch in Singapore
French Chamber of Commerce, Singapore
“Enjoyable and compelling, this timely fable and its lessons read like a novel but serves as an important business manual. With wisdom and context from a long and successful business career, Cousin has painted a vivid picture of how to enact change effectively. Page after page of insight!” – Marshall Goldsmith
The Nation: Time for Asian leaders to ‘change their game’, re-boost competitiveness
The Nation: Thailand
Change is urgently needed, yet 70 per cent of change programs fail, as stated in “Changing Change Management” from McKinsey (July 2015). The most common cause is employees’ disengagement and my experience as a global executive coach concurs: Leaders may roll out any change process they like, but change won’t be sustainable if employees are not energized enough to make it stick.
The Nation: A truly game-changing manual on leadership
The Nation, Thailand
Jean-Francois Cousin is an executive coach and speaker based in Bangkok and working worldwide. He just authored an unconventional book about leadership: “Game Changers at the Circus: how leaders can unleash Greatness in their organization“, including a fable and a leadership workbook.
Interview on 938 Live Radio, Singapore
938 FM, Singapore
Jean-Francois Cousin chats with Keith de Souza from 938 Live Radio about his latest book ‘Game Changers at the Circus‘ out now on Amazon.
BFM Malaysia Podcast: A Toxic Workplace
BFM, Malaysia
Every organization has a cast of characters with bad habits & toxic behavior that hampers the growth and performance of a company. Jean-Francois Cousin’s book, ‘Game Changers at the Circus‘, employs storytelling and a step-by-step approach to demonstrate how even the most toxic workplaces can be transformed into a culture of greatness.
3 types of leaders for improved organizational competitiveness
Singapore Business Review, Singapore
Low staff engagement is largely due to inadequate leadership styles that de-motivate employees. Let’s explore what leaders can do differently, to enable their people to win the battles ahead for greater competitiveness.
