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#33 Why Telling People What to Do Doesn’t Work: Gareth Holebrook

#33 Why Telling People What to Do Doesn’t Work: Gareth Holebrook

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In this episode, Grant speaks with Gareth Holebrook, President of
North Harbour Tri Club, PREKURE Health Coach, and business coach,
about leadership, influence, and why instruction alone rarely
creates change.

Gareth’s leadership philosophy has been shaped by an
unconventional career path. Thirty years ago, he served in the
Royal Navy as an engineer, with ambitions to become an
engineering officer. After being made redundant in 1984, he went
on to work in Japan’s tech sector, where he was exposed to very
different approaches to leadership, learning, and performance.

Drawing on those experiences, Gareth explains how the techniques
he learned in Japan now underpin his work in business coaching
and health coaching. At the core is a simple but challenging
idea: if you tell people what to do, they’re unlikely to want to
do it. Real leadership, and real behaviour change, comes from
creating the conditions where people choose change for
themselves.

A practical conversation about leadership, coaching, and how to
move people forward without force.