by Cedric de Beer | Mar 31, 2020 | Articles
Covid 19 is forcing many companies to have staff work remotely from home thus creating what are known as “virtual teams”. Leading virtual teams will pose new challenges to many managers, because it really is quite different from leading a team of people who all work...
by Cedric de Beer | Nov 12, 2019 | Articles
Almost without warning, we are into the last few weeks of the year. This is often a time when companies review the year and consider how to do things better as they plan for the year ahead. Company leadership and staff, too, may be engaged in formal appraisals...
by Cedric de Beer | Sep 11, 2019 | Articles
Amongst sports lovers there will always be disagreement about GOATs (greatest of all time), except perhaps Mohammed Ali and Donald Bradman. Sidestepping that debate, regarding men’s tennis, there are facts about Roger Federer that cannot be disputed. He was...
by Cedric de Beer | Jul 31, 2019 | Articles
There is an interesting gap between the ambitious definitions of coaching in the literature and what happens in many coaching practices from day to day. On the one hand coaching theory promotes an ambitious, even transcendent view of the discipline –...
by Cedric de Beer | Aug 15, 2018 | Articles
The right CEO, for this company now. There is probably no more important job for a company’s Board than selecting the right CEO. And if the company has a succession plan aiming to groom internal candidates for the job, then it is critically important to select...