Peter Shaw – Making Difficult Decisions: How to be decisive and get the business done

Peter Shaw is a founding Partner of the leading coaching firm praesta Partners and is an experienced business coach working with senior leaders in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Peter’s clients enjoy frank, challenging conversations leading to fresh thinking and new insights. He is often coaching at the interface of the public and private sectors, and working with Chief Executives and Board members taking on new roles and leading major organisational change. Peter is frequently working with individuals who are making difficult decisions enabling them to look at decisions from a range of different perspectives.
Prior to becoming a coach Peter held three Director general posts and worked in five different Government Departments, treasury, Education, Employment, Environment and Transport. he has written a sequence of influential leadership books including, The 4 Vs of Leadership: Vision, Values, Value-added and Vitality, Finding your Future: The Second Time Around and Conversations Matters: How to Engage Effectively With One Another.
He co-authored with Robin Linnecar, Business Coaching: Achieving Practical Results Through effective Engagement and has written a range of influential articles. Peter was formerly a Visiting Professor at Durham University. he regularly leads workshops on leadership issues based around the themes of his books.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements.

Foreword by Nick Macpherson.

Introduction.

Part 1: The 4Cs of Making Difficult Decisions.

1. Balancing clarity and conviction.

2. Clarity.

3. Conviction.

4. Courage.

5. Communication.

Part 2: Taking Forward Making Difficult Decisions.

6. Applying the learning from good decision makers.

7. Embedding the ability to make difficult decisions.

8. Enabling others to make difficult decisions.

9. Key questions when making difficult decisions.

Part 3: Making Difficult Decisions in Particular Circumstances.

10. Making difficult decisions as the boss.

11. Making difficult decisions in relating to your boss.

12. Making difficult decisions in relating to your peers.

13. Dealing with your hopes and fears.

14. Addressing values and priorities.

15. Next Steps.

Selected bibliography.

Index.