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There are some office activities which convert very easily to an online environment: meetings with a clear agenda, collaborating over document editing, and conveying information. A good blend of having the right technology and the tasks not being too abstract helps. But one area that can leave work teams feeling stressed and confused is how …

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Influence – what does it mean to leaders? Influence is, in the opinion of many commentators and researchers, the lifeblood of leadership. If you want to be a great leader, you need to be great at influencing. Influence is, after all, the ability to affect change in actions, behaviours and decisions. Another way of thinking …

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Find out how Smart Collaboration can benefit your business performance.   I am delighted to have been awarded accreditation to use The Smart Collaboration Accelerator with my clients. This is a superb, research-based assessment that is used to guide leaders and teams through the process of understanding their behavioural tendencies, in turn using this insight …

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No matter which leader you look at, or which type of business leadership approach you subscribe to, almost all of them have one key skill in common: influence. All the way back to the earliest business leadership theories in the 1950s, to those of today, a good leader is usually seen to be one who …

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Storytelling? At work? Reeeeeaally? Not in our setting. Wouldn’t work. But actually, what you’ll find if you look around, is that people are already telling stories everywhere you look. They’re telling stories to inspire, motivate, change behaviour, sell products, warn people, or to explain what the organisation’s culture, policies and practices are (see the diagram …

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In every firm I’ve worked with, there are always some juniors who are instinctively great at managing their managers. They raise difficult issues with no difficulty; they get their great ideas tabled at big meetings; and they are able to move their careers forward without appearing over-assertive. In fact, those workers who are good at …

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I’ve been involved in a big leadership development project recently for a firm who are looking to improve their leadership. They’re already very successful and have a very positive culture, but of course everyone can always aspire to better. Part of the process has been a 360˚ leadership survey in which a handful of people …

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There is a bewildering array of leadership development programmes out there, for all firms’ budgets, sizes and industries. This means that it’s not always clear what’s the right fit for you. Below are five diagnostic questions that will help HR managers to work out what might be right for their firm, right now. 1. Do …

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There’s a lot of talk at the moment about how important it is for even the most traditional firm to be innovative and creative: just look at the volume of articles in Harvard Business Review in the past year as an indication. Creativity is a key way in which the firm can make sure it …

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