SENSEI LEADERSHIP CONVERSATIONS
A collection of our bi-monthly articles providing an excellent
introduction to the sorts of challenges we can help organisations
with or reflecting current events.
Please find below a selection of different publications including case studies, leadership development stories. To view PDF versions of Our Stories, as well as a full archive go to the Our Stories Archives.
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SENSEI BREAKTHROUGH COACHING
Our approach to executive coaching is distinctive because we have developed our skills supporting leaders tasked with making sustainable change occur in their organisation. We therefore help leaders deliver performance outcomes that make a significant difference in their organisation, including supporting them with any changes in personal behaviour and habits required to ensure performance outcomes are delivered as effectively as possible...
SENSEI VALUE FOR TIME CONFERENCES - our antidote to ‘Death by PowerPoint’
Sensei has helped many major corporate organisations to deliver a significant return on the time and effort invested in their conferences. Find out why one-way PowerPoint presentations should play NO part in your next annual conference...
NEW TEAM FACES REAL CHALLENGE – now is the time to liberate passion By Ian Nicholls
Our belief is that a successful organisation is one in which passion flourishes and people feel engaged to contribute. However, as we start what will be an interesting journey as a nation, one in which tough decisions are taken and tough action followed through, passion may well be in short supply. How to achieve success and liberate passion must be high up the “worry list” of Cameron and Clegg...
A BETTER APPROACH TO CONSULTING VALUE by Omar Khan
Sensei's approach to consulting revolves around engaging human performance. It is an evolution of an approach called process consulting. The "process" refers to "human processes". The approach of linking human performance to business results is not just a collection of techniques to be compared to some other set of techniques. It is a fundamental paradigm about how consultants can actually confer value to clients...
THE WASTE OF TRAINING by Omar Khan
Organizations are made up of people who, like many of us, find change unappetizing and will go to great lengths to look for panaceas and band-aids, rather than grapple with real issues of human change and growth.
Bosses are happy to seek consulting solutions when they face cerebral, analytical, diagnostic challenges. They look for firms with pedigrees, fixate on theoretical models that are conceptually compelling, and leave the sordid matter of “implementation” for later ...
DEVELOPING A STRATEGY FOR THE FIRM by Malcolm Follos
Strategy means different things to different people, it requires us to see the ‘big picture’, think long-term, plug into future trends and make collective decisions that affect the future of the firm. All of this is a very long way from the ‘operational’ activity that consumes our typical working day ...
THE NATURE OF CLIENT VALUE By Omar Khan
Consultants often congratulate themselves gratuitously on providing great service, caring about their clients, being trusted advisers, etc and ad nauseum.
Here is a simple but non-negotiable check-list to ascertain whether you are really providing premium relationship value — value by virtue of a client relating with you — over and above the type of general expertise that is almost certainly readily available through multiple sources...
