We often get asked by clients who are going through change initiatives or change programmes to come in and deliver some sessions to leaders to help them manage people through change. While there’s nothing inherently wrong with that and explaining the change curve etc. does...
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How many times have you been out to dinner with friends, family or a partner and been asked by the person serving you, “is everything OK with your meal?” We’re willing to bet you’ve lost count of the times that has happened; it’s almost common...
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We were working with a group of participants recently on a development programme and we started by asking them about the people challenges they were dealing with. Some of the usual issues you might expect came out of this conversation, things like – bad attitudes,...
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We came across this brilliant, funny and insightful article recently written by Patrick Lencioni one of our leadership heroes. If you haven’t already you really should check out his books. We don’t want to give too much away as Lencioni says it better than we can...
Read MoreWe are often asked; ‘what’s the difference between a Mission statement and a Vision’, ‘what actually is a Strategy’ and ‘where do Values fit into all this’. These are all common leadership terms and you can get very different opinions on what each of them...
Read MoreWe were recently doing some research about the different generations in the workplace for a client piece of work and we came across this really great video from one of our favourite leadership gurus Simon Sinek where he talks about Millennials (typically the 20 -...
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I caught up with an old friend of mine the other week that I haven’t seen for years and over a pot of tea we reminisced about our school days in the eighties when we thought we were the coolest cats on the planet. One of...
Read MoreThis 5 minute leadership Q&A is probably one of the questions we get asked most often, once we’ve shared various leadership tools with people on the programmes we run. As human beings we are naturally creatures of habit, once we find a way of doing something...
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There is no denying we love working with teachers – they are always so keen to learn and never once do we question their commitment and determination to make a difference to the lives of the young people they teach. Certainly for the teachers we’ve...
Read MoreThis is a great short video that really proves it’s the little things in life that often make the biggest difference, even if at the time it doesn’t appear that way. As leaders it’s important for us to remember it’s not always the grand gestures our...
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