How are you guarding against the potential onset of skills fade? Working from home continues to be the reality for so many leaders and their teams (particularly those of you who work in offices), and looks as though it might be for some time. Under constantly revised government guidelines, the ways in which we …
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What do we mean when we say the leadership sweet-spot? It’s the overlapping point where the expectations of the company, your team, and your own, all match up. To get mathematical, if you were to use a Venn Diagram, it’s the point where the three circles overlap. So how do you find the sweet-spot when …
Lockdown has brought a chance for reflection for many of us. Perhaps not as much as we thought – from what I can gather people haven’t wiled away hours in a sunny armchair contemplating the meaning of life. However, we have been given the opportunity to reflect on how life now looks different, and many …
So much leadership development fails at the first hurdle because it focuses on individuals, skills or culture – but not all three at once. For interventions to work, they need to take into account the whole picture. Leadership training and development tends to fall into three categories. Pause to reflect on the leadership programmes you’ve run …
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If you work with clients who are current or emerging leaders but who are not always confident in their leadership position, then John R. P. French and Bertram Raven’s power bases can help. It is a common tool in leadership modules at business school but is routinely overlooked in coaching practice. I use it to …
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We are living in uncertain times. I spend some of my time trying to be in the present, and the rest with my mind whizzing forward to the future, wondering and speculating about what’s going to happen, and when, and how, and how it’s going to affect me. And I know I’m not alone on …
Having coaching conversations, one on one, with my clients through lockdown has provided a really detailed insight into the range of responses and emotions that leaders (and the rest of the digital workforce, I would suggest) have gone through. There have been some really interesting, common themes – some of which back up what psychology …
In the UK at least, lockdown in relation to work practices appears to be here to stay for a while. I’m aware that many people had some form of self-improvement on their early lockdown to do lists but that most of our ambitions proved to be too big to juggle with work and perhaps childcare …
During a crisis, the way people lead will be put under the spotlight. By adopting these five strategies, leaders can help ensure their team’s engagement, performance and wellbeing remains strong. From Brexit to the recent covid-19 pandemic, circumstances have shown that as leaders, we can never be certain about our business environment and the way things are going …
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Being a successful leader requires you to be a visionary, seize opportunities, rally and motivate employees, navigate pitfalls, and so much more. You are expected to do so much, and herein lies one of the biggest problems for leaders today: How are you possibly able to fulfill everyone’s expectations? This is the second of my …
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