Proactive Style

A wealth of research provides the basis for a wide range of practical tips and techniques, supplimented by models, checklists, and audio files.
Learning and Development Manager, Tate

We are committed to continually expanding our knowledge in our areas of expertise through research and liaison with a large number of organisations, participating in leading discussion forums, monitoring new developments and contributing thought leading papers of our own.

The following lists our most recent white papers and thought leadership (each can be downloaded by clicking on the relevant title).

Current White Papers and Recent Articles

Who's Coaching Who? Survey of UK organisations use of coaching and insights into the effectiveness of coaching training.

Really Making A Difference: Insights From Coaching And Mentoring Experience Feedback from UK and US organisations' assessments of their coaching and mentoring experiences, examining common weak links, insights and priorities for achieving success.

Coaching On The Fly Examines how and when to adopt a coaching style over other management interventions.

Coaching Is Good For You Good, selfish reasons for managers to make time to coach.

Fallacies and Fixes Examines common fallacies inherent in many approaches for assessing learning return on investment and presents approaches for overcoming these.

Measuring Return on People Investments Examines the latest thinking on measuring the 'immeasurable' - proving returns on coaching, learning and other 'people projects'.

ROI or ROE? - The Good, The Bad and The Indescribable Puts ROI on coaching and training programmes under the spot-light, questioning when ROI is relevant and when alternative means of assessment are more appropriate.

Tell Me More - Analysing Anecdotes Presents the case for using anecdotes in effectiveness and benefits analysis, describing a systematic approach for breaking down and analysing narrative points.