Back Issues - June 2005

• Your organisation: where is it on the road to becoming a coaching culture?
  David Clutterbuck and David Megginson examine the theory and reality of changing to a coaching culture, and offer some practical advice for a deep transition.
• How do you prefer to work?
  Charles Margerison takes a look at eight types of work and, using data from extensive research, explains why it is important that people understand and utilise their work preferences.
• Spotlight on Grant Ledgerwood
  Grant Ledgerwood tells Mike Levy why coaching is here to stay.
• Reworking your identity: walking the crooked path to career change
  There are not many instances when putting the cart before the horse is to be recommended, but when it comes to changing careers Herminia Ibarra has a few persuasive arguments for disregarding conventional wisdom and adopting an alternative approach.
• The California Personality Inventory: a contender for the professional toolkit?
  Personality assessment is a field populated by many techniques and suppliers. Jonathan Hill reviews one of the longest established questionnaires and examines its potential as a tool for the trainer or coach.
• Interim Management: a new approach to trouble shooting
  Stephen Harvard Davis defines the phenomenon of interim management, outlines its advantages and explains how training can help interims to ‘hit the ground running’ without creating fatal quick wins.
• Focus - 'Opinion' from Trevor Phillips
  In the final part of our Focus coverage on diversity, Trevor Phillips discusses the importance of diversity and equality in training and development functions.
• Focus - Diversity and equal opportunities: why do they matter?
  Linbert Spencer is positive that actively valuing diversity enables organisations to consistently deliver more to their customers, clients, other stakeholders and the wider community with greater frequency, by helping a larger number of their people to be increasingly engaged with their work.
• Focus - Women: why so few of them?
  The motor industry is one of the world’s oldest and largest employers but fails to attract women in representative numbers. Jo Cameron offers some guidance on how to change outdated attitudes in the workplace through learning.
• Emotional e-wiring
  Gilly Salmon examines attitudes to technological transition.
• Netcheck
  Clare Forrest surfs the Internet for free information on project management, and is generosity itself in sharing it with us.
• We're doing some teambuilding ...
  Andrew Mayo reflects on his own experience to establish what makes teambuilding events work.
• Analysing the job
  Part 6 in the Learning Needs Analysis series by Sarah Cook.