Coaching & Development
We help people step up to lead, create and embrace change, and become more resilient performers.
Business agility is a leadership issue
If you want your people to embrace change, it takes a different kind of leadership, that engages and enables people to be at their best.
Our coaching & development solutions help managers step up and become leaders of change: Able to unlock the adaptability, creativity and resilience needed for sustainable performance.
Enable and liberate people to unlock change
The demands on your business to be agile have never been greater and this creates new challenges for your people.
Contrary to popular belief, people are not inherently resistant to change. They are naturally adaptable, resilient and collaborative.
Management by command & control, however, inhibits these natural human capacities. Leaders must, therefore, enable and liberate people to unlock change.
Our coaching & development services
We provide a range of coaching & development solutions to help your business become more agile and support transformational change.
1:1 Coaching
We work 1:1 with leaders to help them step up and face the challenge of leading people through change.
Team coaching
We help leadership teams work more effectively together and create an agile environment
Resilience training
We develop people so that they can manage their own mindsets, becoming more adaptable, resilient peformers
Management & leadership development
We develop programmes to enable groups of leaders as they lead transformational change.
Change agent development
We enable change agents to step up and engage, support and coach their colleagues through transformation.
Our approach to leadership development
Leadership development programmes often fall short because because they are generic, irrelevant and slow to deliver impact.
Our approach is different. It is agile, experiential and aimed at creating leadership teams as they transform their business.
The dynamics of motivation and emotion
Our work is underpinned by a psychological framework (Reversal Theory) that emphasises adaptability and helps leaders create the climate for change.
From our blog
Leading through unfamiliar territory
The challenge of complexity in a post-COVID world In a post-COVID world the most critical role of leadership may be to navigate unfamiliar territory that is characterise by complexity. Of course, complexity is nothing new. Indeed, since long before the pandemic,...
Free COVID Return to Work Survey Questions
The return to work after COVID is potentially stressful for employees These COVID return to work survey questions are designed to identify a comprehensive range of challenges that people might experience on returning to work, as efficiently as possible (i.e. without...
Embracing the Business Agility Challenge
Agility may be the single most important attribute for businesses that want to thrive in a changing and unpredictable world. We examine the case for agility, why so many businesses struggle to become agile, and the implications for business...
What is mindset?
What is Mindset? And how does it relate to motivation? An awful lot is said about mindset these days. You must change your mindset on this, adopt that.. ..for this or that reason. Everyone seems to have their own view of what a mindset is, and what kind you should...
Believe – Perform – Achieve
Developing High Performance Managers at the Irish Institute of Sport 8Connect Consulting are excited to be supporting 'the team behind the team' at the Irish Institute of Sport. We are helping them to be more effective at "managing from the middle" which means making...
Emotivation: A unifying concept for HR & OD?
What is Emotivation? Emotivation is simply an idea that connect emotions and motivations, rather than treating them as separate and unrelated. Our concept of emotivation is based on Reversal Theory (e.g. Apter, 2001) which suggests that our emotional experiences are...
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About 8Connect
We are a People, Organisational Development and Change consultancy.
We help organisations develop the agility and resilience to perform in a complex, changing and unpredictable business environment.
Contact Us
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