The new world of work 2030 – are we thinking big enough?
Over the last 5 months I’ve read numerous articles on what the new world of work is going to look like. More digital, more entrepreneurial, more home working, more flexible…. […]
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LEADERSHIP, HR AND OTHER MUSINGS
“ To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality” – Anita Roddick
Many things make us passionate, and inspire us to put pen to paper. So you’ll find here our thoughts and musings about leadership, learning, training, HR, coaching, and just about anything else we think is relevant!
2020s: New Decade, New You?…well,it depends
The last 2 weeks has seen media (both social and print) full of not only the New Year, New You message, putting pressure on us to re-invent ourselves, but also […]
Leadership Lessons: “Have you had the expectations conversation yet?”
Imagine the situation: you start a new role, or you have a new line manager and you go through the first few days and weeks, have some meetings, and a couple of […]
“What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare”
The above quote from the poem “Leisure” by WH Davies was written over a hundred years ago, and one that I learned at school, along with many other people. However, the opening lines are ones that keep coming back to me more and more over the last 2 years, and seem a reflection more on our modern life than they ever did back in 1911.
So, this year… What would you like to have happen?
Every New Year we are bombarded by articles on our social media feeds, on the TV, in print media, telling us to make a fresh start, create new goals, be happier, lose weight, change what we do etc. etc…. For some people this reboot works well and gives focus; but let’s face it, most of us don’t get past the first week.
Leadership Lessons: My 7 Ways to Build Great Remote Teams
I’ve spent 10 years managing remote teams; often up to 30 direct reports at a time. Over 200 teams in all I reckon, as my regions changed most years. I travelled 35-40,000 miles a year, swapped cars with alarming regularity, and can now navigate most of the UK without sat nav!
Leadership Lessons from the Olympics: The Power of a Common Purpose
Like many of you, I have lost 2 weeks of my life watching the Rio Olympics. Never have I sat down for so long! Along with cheering team mates, nervous friends and family and millions across the nation, I have screamed at Team GB cycling squad – cheering as everyone won a medal;
High Performing Team – Are you? 7 Steps to achieving High Performance Behaviours
I’ve had a lot of conversations with different team members in a lot of different organisations over the last few years about team performance. On the surface everything looks hunky dory – they are achieving objectives, hitting targets and seem to be performing well. But the reality. . .
New Year, New PDP: 5 simple rules
It’s the New Year! We’ve just dragged ourselves out of our collective Christmas duvet, and in the first week back at work have been bombarded across every form of media with how we should change our lives, our figures, our eating and drinking habits….
Making Change Happen: Plan of Action
Our final step in our Creating alignment series is one of the most crucial – the action plan.
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