Here's a guest blog post from my good friend, John Gloster-Smith, on the topic of giving positive feedback: What does it take to praise or appreciate people? Sometimes quite a lot, it seems. Apparently 7 out of 10 UK workers feel that their employers take their...
A natural consequence of believing leadership myths 1 and 2 - that it requires special qualities, skills, expertise and knowledge to be a leader today - is that there appears to be a shortage of the right kind of people. Andif you believe that leadership is scarce,...
In coaching clients on leadership we’ve noticed an early sticking point. Though people give different reasons, there’s a common theme: at this point, they are resisting ‘stepping up’ to leadership. Of course, they don’t accept that it’s resistance; from where they...
It’s easy to assume that the leaders you admire are effective and successful because of their experience,expertise and knowledge – but this isn’t necessarily so. In everyday life, you draw on two sources of knowledge and information to get through. One source consists...
It’s a commonly held view that people either "have what it takes" to be a leader or they don't – they are born with certain characteristics which fit them to be a leader, and if they don’t have these characteristics, they’ll never make the grade. If you subscribe to...
Everybody’s invoking the word ‘accountability’ now that, following the global financial crisis, the lack of it has become so apparent. It’s a loaded word and a political football in sectors, such as health care and education, crying out for reform. Who should get what...
We look at where, as a leader, your formal authority ends, and where genuine leadership kicks in, in order to make real changes: Your formal authority cannot create genuine change Change often brings uncertainty, loss, and pain for those it touches - usually the very...
This says it all really...Lynne Cazaly's illustration showcases brilliantly Simon Sinek's 'Start With Why' ideas on organisation development.
Where is your organisation ‘located’? I don’t mean its geographical location, its files or its products and services. I’m asking where your organisation is ‘located’ in your mind and the minds of your colleagues, customers, competitors and suppliers. All organisations...
At Leaders Lab, we're great proponents of Neil Crofts' posts on leadership - here's an abridged version of his most recent one on how to get full engagement as a leader: I am working with a great team at the moment, they are very capable, very professional and very...
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