During these unprecedented times there has been a lot of talk and advice about how to get through it. How to build our resilience, manage our stress, manage ourselves, stay motivated. How to effectively work remotely with family life going on, how to social distance but still stay connected.All good advice, the underlying themes as…
What is Emotional Intelligence? In a world of work where people are increasingly accepted to be the competitive edge, any idea that seems to offer the possibility of enabling them to work together more co-operatively and productively is likely to raise a great deal of interest.Interest in emotional intelligence (EI) has grown over the last…
I recently attended a networking event and got talking about the link between organisational transformation and good leadership. I was asked “What do organisations do if leaders can’t see that they are a barrier to transformation and success therefore unwilling to change?” It’s a good question. As Manfred Kets de Vries says in The Leader…
Trust, as a Leader, is essential. It lies at the core of our relationships and interactions with everyone and everything around us. On a pure biological level, the human brain is programmed for survival, which drives us to take certain actions that are all affected, one way or another, by trust. If we trust something,…
Much has been written about Leadership over the years, including what makes a good Leader, what makes a poor Leader and the impacts they have on their people. Yet while Leadership has evolved and different styles have come and gone as trends have changed, the core characteristics and traits of good Leadership have remained the…
Are the qualities of leaders carved in stone, are they ‘fixed’? Are leaders selected based on the traits that they demonstrate and that these traits are fixed? Are leaders born not made? There is an alternative viewpoint, that leadership qualities and traits are things that can be cultivated through effort, strategies, and help from others….
I have been training leaders and managers for the last 25+ years and amazed at how leadership has changed in that time. Firstly, there weren’t leaders, there were managers, individuals who were, more often than not, promoted because of their technical skills rather than their people skills. Managers went on training courses because of the…
Organisations need to be planning as to how they can develop and retain the next generation of leaders. Often, managers are promoted leaving a void of talent, skills, experience and knowledge behind them often due to a basic lack of succession planning. The result is a hurried exercise in developing staff to fill shoes, this…
Tribes in companies decide whether work gets done, their influence is greater than that of teams, entire companies even CEOs. In companies, tribes decide whether the new leader is going to flourish or get taken out. They determine how much work gets done and to what quality. In my experience of working with teams in…
In my experience more and more companies are reporting an urgent need to develop employees with leadership potential. This is alarming because, as more boomers retire, and Millennials move into management roles, today’s companies just aren’t prepared to meet the demands with leadership in their pipelines. As an employer, leadership development is crucial for your…
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