One of the continual challenges you face when developing leadership capability is that however exciting, interesting or well designed your leadership training is, many in ‘leadership roles’ just don’t seem to take it up by changing their approaches or behaviours. The organisational response is often ‘let’s roll something else out and see if it sticks’… Read more
Often our journey seems like an uphill slog, carrying a heavy backpack with a cold wind blowing in our faces. As we look up, the top of the hill is in sight yet still seems so far away. We know that once we reach it, we’ll be able to rest in the warm sunshine, having… Read more
A change in nutrition has a life-changing impact on health, wellbeing and thinking. This seems to be an element that is missing in many leadership programmes
Angela was an intelligent, creative dynamo. If something needed to be done, done right and done quickly, Angela was the person to ask (if you could get hold of her as she was always busy). But for all her busy-ness she didn’t seem to be making actual progress. For all her super powered ass-kicking she… Read more
A board colleague of mine recently commented that ‘Leadership roles are so much harder these days’ to general agreement around the table. Its one of those things that everyone knows isn’t it. Afterwards I found myself querying the view and asking why she thought that was the case. Everything she listed was in existence when… Read more