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Enhancing Partnership Board Effectiveness
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Developing Leaders Who Lead: Coaching in Organisational Context
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NOVEMBER 2025
Framing the Issue
Enhancing Partnership Board Effectiveness
November 2025 | 724 words | 4-MIN READ
This is the second paper in our Partnership Firms Governance series. This time, we turn the focus to how Partnership Boards can raise their game — becoming not just stewards of the firm, but true catalysts for performance, culture, and long-term value.
In our work with professional services firms, we have seen Partnership Boards at every stage of the journey — from newly formed to deeply seasoned. The best ones don’t just meet; they lead. They bring clarity where there’s ambiguity, balance challenge with support, and set the tone for what partnership really means.
But effectiveness doesn’t happen by accident. It’s built — through deliberate choices about people, culture, focus, and leadership…
Developing Leaders Who Lead:
Coaching in Organisational Context
November 2025 | 483 words | 3-MIN READ
High-potential leaders are promoted — but are they equipped to make decisions that actually move the organisation forward? And how can coaching help them develop not just personally, but in ways that truly advance the organisation?
Coaching is often a key tool organisations use to bring through high-potential talent, enable successful succession, and supercharge leaders’ capabilities to drive transformational change. At its core, however, lies the question: what are the most critical needs for leaders in transition?
As leaders move into more senior or strategic roles, the scope of their influence expands — and so must their thinking. Coaching often begins with the individual: personal goals, strengths, and challenges — the topics the coachee brings. Yet where appropriate, when coaching is also grounded in the organisational context, making meaningful connection to the organisational goals, strategy, and direction, often guided by the coach's skilful prompts, it creates far greater impact for both the leader and the organisation…
