One of the challenges when putting leadership, coaching and mentoring programmes into organisations is that people often have very different ideas of what coaching and mentoring is, and what their roles are as coaches or mentors. When establishing a coaching or mentoring programme, or even having a conversation about this with the rest of the [...] Read more

It’s rightly said that to change a company you must first change the consciousness of its leader.  Unless leaders embrace their own development journey how can they expect their organisation to blossom, profits to soar, customer relationships to thrive, staff engagement to deepen and market share to grow? So a question for leaders – how [...] Read more

As a long-established business coaching firm AltusQ has been well placed to observe the increasing use of coaching techniques and methodologies as tools for supporting and developing leaders. Needless to say we’ve been delighted by the improved profile and acceptance of coaching generally – but we have also noted that things don’t always pan out [...] Read more

Formal mentoring programs are increasingly popular within many organisations. Typically these programs match promising junior staff with senior executives with the aim of imparting some wisdom from the top down. As this is the most common format you might like to think of these programs as, “right side up”. But there are other ways to [...] Read more

Formal mentoring programs are becoming increasingly popular within many Australian and international businesses. Mentoring expert Akram Sabbagh from AltusQ provides a personal perspective on why this is so. Read more