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Co-authored by Nick Wilkins and Dr Sunny Stout-Rostron How do corporate leaders develop the competences they need? And how should they be supported in their development? These are important questions, because the answers determine the precise forms of support executives and managers will need at particular stages in their professional development. This article briefly reviews […]
Family enterprises are the foundation of big business, with many multinationals having their origins in a small family start-up. Family dynamics, however, often impede growth and sustainability of these businesses. Family Enterprises: How to build growth, family control and family harmony, edited by Richard L. Narva, is a collaboration of experts from a variety of fields, offering […]
Dr Sunny Stout-Rostron has contributed a chapter to Richard Narva’s latest book: Family Enterprises: How to Build Growth, Family Control and Family Harmony. The chapter is entitled “Executive coaching challenges with family firms”. Further details on the contents of this essential guide to working successfully with family firms can be found here Recognition of the […]
Learning from experience and client stories Learning, and particularly learning from experience, seems to be one of the major components of the coaching conversation. Learning from experience implies an understanding of the language and content of the client’s story, with the coach helping the client to reconstruct their own reality by searching for meaning through […]
By Dr Sunny Stout-Rostron “The term complexity captures the greater levels of uncertainty, ambiguity, interdependences and interrelatedness that now characterize the environments in which organisations operate” (Clarke, 2013:135). Business coaches need to think systemically, and this article briefly looks at the importance of leaders taking decisions in alignment with the context of their organizational environment. […]
Co-authored by Dr Sunny Stout-Rostron and Nick Wilkins This article is adapted from Sunny Stout-Rostron’s best-selling book, Business Coaching Wisdom and Practice: Unlocking the Secrets of Business Coaching (2009), which is available from Knowledge Resources (www.knowres.co.za) Ethics are most often recognized as the rules of conduct in respect of a particular group or culture, or […]
Co-authored by Nick Wilkins and Dr Sunny Stout Rostron Naturally business coaches want to market their services. And what more tempting way to sell business coaching than to quote nice big numbers about the return on investment (ROI) the client firm can reap? Like this, for example: “The latest study on executive coaching ROI is […]
Co-Authored by Nick Wilkins and Sunny Stout-Rostron. You’re a 40-year-old executive heading an operational division of a large company. You get to work at 07:30, scan the business news, then respond to 57 priority e-mail messages that you can’t delegate to your line managers or PA. A message from the CEO reminds you to forward […]
One of Sunny’s passions is working with gender issues in the business world. Due to her extensive experience in this area, she was invited to contribute a chapter to The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring. We are delighted to bring you a copy of this chapter for your reading pleasure. Please […]
“Sunny Stout-Rostron brings her wealth of experience as a practitioner and researcher to this highly valuable book. It is immensely practical and will more than repay the time invested in reading and re-reading it. I thoroughly recommend it.” – Professor David A. Lane, Professional Development Foundation, UK Available in softcover and ebook versions
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