You can learn to harness the ways of being that work for you so you only use them in the leadership situations and circumstances that really call for them. In this article we look at how you can choose who to be. This morning, if you slept well, just a few seconds before waking up, still within your dreams, you had no idea of who you were and who you… read more →
Ever sat in a meeting, really wanting to contribute in some way but been unable to get a word in? Ever left a meeting running the ‘could have, would have, should haves’ of everything you didn’t say through your brain? I think we’ve all been there. There are lots of different reasons why you may not be able to speak up but often it’s because you just don’t know how… read more →
If you’re like many of the people we speak to every day, probably not! But you’ve managed to read this far, so stick with it – we have something to say about how you manage your time. These days people seem to have less and less time: the more work you do, the more work comes your way. With email, the internet, smartphones and tablets, you’re never out of touch… read more →
These days, success at work is more and more dependent on your ability to influence the people around you. As discussed in a previous blog post on mindsets, you can’t force, persuade, bully or instruct someone into changing their mindset. You have to communicate with them in a way to which they will respond positively. And everyone is wired differently. In this post we explore four types of people ‘wiring’… read more →
Leadership skills can be learned, though along the way you may have to rethink your conception of what a great leader actually does, and overcome discomfort and anxiety in order to raise your game. One of the most uncomfortable facts is that great leadership is not about having all the answers, but about asking the right questions. So here are some key questions from professor Robert Steven Kaplan of Harvard… read more →
Here’s an example of how focusing on the more important issues in your business will reap rewards: A trainer working with a group to the importance of time management at work placed a large glass jar on a table. He then produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and put them one at a time into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would… read more →
Monday evening saw the Leaders Lab team celebrating the best of emerging east London creative female talent as the elle programme, supported and organised by the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park charity, The Legacy List, was launched gently on its way. With a panoramic view over much of London, which took in the City, the sweep of the River Thames as well as the Olympic Park itself, the 13 elle associates… read more →
Each consultancy project, whether it’s a short or a long term piece of work, moves through several phases: there is a shape to the process. If a consultancy project goes wrong, it can most often be attributed to a consultant mishandling one or more of these phases. It’s not a linear journey, though – you need to keep an eye on these key stages throughout your engagement with the work,… read more →
We’re conditioned to believe that being an introvert is a negative thing. In this next of our ‘Talking Leadership‘ blog posts, Susan Cain turns that conditioning on its head. If half our society is made up of introverts, shouldn’t we be valuing them more? This eye-opening video, taken from the TED series of lectures, looks at what it means to be either an introvert or extrovert, and offers some inspiration… read more →
It’s been quite an exciting few weeks for us at Leaders Lab. What started as a lively conversation over dinner at the First Women Awards last year, has turned into an innovative and really inspiring opportunity. Starting in October this year, we will be working with the independent charity The Legacy List to run a management development programme for an up-and-coming group of women who work in the Arts in… read more →