For two decades, digital communications have caused leaders and their teams some challenges, with the digital world not always providing the right context for message conveyance and interpretation. Not hearing the tone behind the words written within an email, or…
Andy Meehan is someone who channels 30 years’ experience, accrued through the holding of top-level corporate roles in sectors ranging from fashion to funeral care, to the considerable benefit of those he mentors. Introducing him to you is a pleasure…
We hear about great leadership every day because effective leadership is meaningful and impactful. Instead of the corporate hierarchy, great leadership involves social influence. Anyone can be a manger but not everyone can be a great leader. Leadership is the…
What a time to be a leader?! We recently blogged about ensuring your strategy has embraced a review of the external forces impacting your business, organisation / charity. So how is your organisation placed, given these external forces, many of which…
Covid 19 has affected and will continue to affect your business in ways you have not yet imagined. It is going to linger with us for many months / years to come. As we emerge slowly into less restrictive lockdowns…
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves” (Carl Jung). The pressures of leadership, lead to the leader experiencing an array of emotional responses to situations and people. In the moment of heightened response,…
A business is defined by its ability to make good decisions, at all levels. But how can you make sure that it will? ‘Houston, we have a problem.’ Probably the most famous understatement ever spoken was beamed down to NASA…
“The higher we rise, the more isolated we become: All elevations are cold.” Stanislas de Boufflers, Le Libre Arbitre, 1808 No-one ever became a leader because it makes them popular. In fact, business leaders (not just at the top –…
We spend a lot of time discussing leadership – what makes a great leader, how to develop leaders, and so on – but what about followship? A leader is afterall nothing, without their followers and in our view the responsibility…
People often say that it’s lonely at the top, but there is academic evidence to prove it. A report for the Harvard Business Review in 2012 found that half of CEOs admitted to feeling loneliness in their job, and that…
