by Amanda Baines | Sep 2, 2015 | Leadership
As a leader, do you think your role requires you to serve others or others to serve you? As a conscientious person, you would probably answer that leadership means putting the needs of others before your own, and undoubtedly most leaders would like to believe that...
by Amanda Baines | Aug 23, 2015 | Leadership
We’ve discussed before about creating disciplines for becoming ever more authentic and completely yourself. Why then would you ever make a mistake again? Because we all fall short of ideal behaviour, and forget to choose to be great and behave well on a daily...
by Kate Mercer | Aug 16, 2015 | Leadership
Here at Leaders Lab we talk often about why effective communication is key to achieving a successful company culture, one created and formed by its business owners and senior executives. Below are four tips to help get you started on evaluating, and possibly improving...
by Amanda Baines | Aug 12, 2015 | Leadership
The next time you’re juggling options – which friend to see, which house to buy, which career to pursue – consider the action of Xiang Yu, a Chinese general who took his troops across the Yangtze River into enemy territory and performed an experiment in...
by Kate Mercer | Aug 9, 2015 | Leadership
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...
