Top 5 Occupational Hazards of Being a Jedi
Being a Jedi looks so cool but what are the occupational hazards of being a Jedi and what can we learn from them?
Do Leaders Need Followers?
It’s an interesting time to be alive and have a fascination with Leadership. I don’t think I’d be going out on a limb here by saying that there’s a bit of a dearth of world leadership these days. While Jacinda Ardern is doing a fantastic job of re-imaging what it means to be a leader…
How Loyalty May Be Hurting Your Career
Loyalty is a Goldilocks Personal Values. You want just enough. Too much or too little undermines performance. #Personal Values #Leadership #Loyalty
How Perfection May Be Hurting Your Career
Meet Kate*. Kate’s a manager in tech and manages a team of 5. Kate is very busy, all the time. In fact, she’s so busy that she doesn’t have time to get involved in company initiatives or high-profile projects. Kate’s too busy to think about this or why it might be important for her. Kate…
Managing Insights Energies in a Crisis
During a crisis, there’s enough to be dealing with, to not have to worry about people’s personality preferences but they show up anyway. Tips on how to deal with different Insights Discovery energy preferences.
What Leadership Field are YOU playing on?
Are you playing a leadership game of soccer, baseball or cricket? Do you know what leadership game you’re playing? Does it matter? Find out how executive coaching helps to answer these questions and more…
Cummings – Leader or Maverick?
As someone in the Leadership Development space, I’ve been fascinated watching the global decline in leadership standards over the last 4 years. While I can’t say whether we’ve reached rock bottom yet, it does seem that the UK has hit another floor, with a bang. It might be the basement floor, or there could be…
Boris’ Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
Every time I’ve checked in the UK’s state-of-affairs over the last couple of weeks, it just seems like one endless capitulation after another. First, it was the rejection of the Sunday evening “televised event” that turned into the dampest squib ever, preceded by the Scottish, Northern Ireland and Welsh governments having already rejected any suggestions…
Elvis Explains Values
“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ’em all over everything you do” is a quote attributed to Elvis Presley and never a truer word was spoken about values. Nobody is born with values but, through how we were parented, specific incidents and the societal culture we were raised in, we…
3 Leadership Lessons from Breaking Bad
What we can learn from Breaking Bad:
1. What business are you in?
2. What are your business’ limiting factors?
3. How do you keep it authentic?