Industry Links
Global Leaders in Management:Sign up to McKinsey Monthly Newsletter to stay abreast of the best thinking
Leadership Material:Join the Leadership discussion on Stephen Covey's own website. His seminal work, 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People' was voted the best Business book of the 20th Century
Jim Collins' website, the author of 'Good to Great' depicts the 5 essential 'must have' ingredients if you want to rise above merely being good and aspire to being truly great
Behavioural Expert Aubrey Daniels has excellent material on Improving Performance. His understanding of human behaviour and how to make it work inside organisations is world class
Franklin Covey are the global leaders in Leadership and Personal Effectiveness
A new and independent Marketing think tank has been launched jointly by the Chartered Institute of Marketing and Thomson Reuters, Marketing Transformation is an all encompassing Leadership Forum for all Marketers.
Useful Coaching Links
International Coaching Federation is the premier governing body globally for the Coaching profession
The Irish Coaching Development Network seeks to self-regulate and accommodate all strands of Coaching in Ireland. It also provides on-going training and CPD
A useful Coaching Networking Group is Association for Coaching
UK based Coaching Development are the premier providers of Coach Training in Ireland- This is where I graduated as a Professional Coach. They are 1 of only 2 ICF accredited Coach Training programmes in the UK and Ireland
Testimonials
"Alasdar has tremendous Coaching ability and excellent people skills. He has excellent business skills and very sound judgement. He has 2 unique and stand-out skills: Brilliant ability as a Coach and his understanding of how Leadership impacts Business performance. His top 3 characteristics are:
1. Impeccable personal integrity with strong team Values
2. Commitment to delivery of the end goal through Customer Focus
3. Ability to build and sustain high quality Relationships with key people. He's thoroughly professional in his work and is also a lot of fun to work with. I would have no hesitation in recommending him to anyone seeking high quality solutions and a long-term partnering approach."
Santi Cursaro
ex-Global head of J&J Medical
Johnson & Johnson
"Alasdar Browne has undertaken a range of both Leadership Development and 1 to 1 Performance Coaching assignments as an associate for Harmonics. He has designed and delivered some of the modules of a highly successful Strategic Leadership Development for Senior Management clients for a major Dublin city centre Teaching Hospital. His high quality interventions have consistently received excellent feedback from our clients. He's especially skilled at taking concepts and models and tailoring their usefulness to be practical for clients. He's highly creative and resourceful and brings a lot of humour and fun to his work. I would highly recommend Alasdar as he always goes the extra mile for us and adds much to our success in large projects."
John Fitzgerald-Managing Director, Harmonics
Harmonics
"Alasdar has a unique Mentoring approach when dealing with business problems. You always feel he's on your side and understands the real issues and what new skills are needed for the business to do this on it's own. He's been great at getting us to step back and see the bigger picture. He does this by a combination of listening and asking the right questions. He helped our business decide on it's top priorities and stay focused on them to increase our top line sales performance. Working with Alasdar we have accomplished things that otherwise may never have been achieved. It's not that we are working harder, just smarter. We strongly recommend him."
John Brennan and Kevin Coffey - Directors Connect IT
Connect IT