I loved this reframe. A hopeful message that we can all contribute in our own ways… The Leaky Bucket Fable Two buckets lived in a village. They carried water every day from the river to the people. One bucket was old, warn, and cracked, and lost half it’s water by the time they reached their destination. It felt terrible not…
Creative Boom marked International Women’s Day by featuring seven female founders from creative agencies in the US and UK. These founders shared their experiences and tips for building an agency from scratch. While each founder’s story is unique, all seven women share a common thread: they had a passion for creativity that they couldn’t ignore…
I’ve written before about my thoughts on salary transparency. I always encourage my coaching clients to make sure they’ve done salary benchmarking research and to always include salary expectations on job adverts. The reasons for including salary from the off are both obvious and varied, but include: This post focusses on one specific benefit of…
Ten AI companies that investors and founders are keeping a close eye on. Like many people, I’m fascinated by AI’s capabilities. I’ve read this article from The Generalist twice now. It’s hard to get your head round – and remarkably straightforward at the same time. Although written from an investor POV, I think it’s useful…
I’m sharing this simple stepping-stone exercise that can help a good leadership team accelerate communication and transform into a high performance team. — A client of mine has an effective, functioning leadership team. They’re strong and aligned but are struggling to step it up a notch into a high performance team culture. The leadership team…
I previously wrote and article about the difference between being assertive and being aggressive, and the fact many people confuse being aggressive with being assertive. Being rude with asserting. I liked these eight reminders about the difference between communicating aggressively versus assertively. Andy.
Powerpoint punchlines and proof if needed that more nerds should be comedians. Enjoy! Andy.
Leadership coach and advisor, Andy Brown, has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director at SIREN FX, working with CEO, Paul Duprey, the Siren FX founders and the leadership team as they step up to become the leading force in foreign exchange benchmarking. “It’s a pleasure to become part of the Siren FX team as Paul, the founders, and the leadership team continue to build a fully transparent, lower-cost…
Watching SAS Who Dares Wins the other day and I was struck by what at first seemed a very simple act of empathy and compassion. One of the contestants was exhausted and clearly suffering. This triggered some horrible memories for one of the other contestants – a big, muscular lorry driver. I was struck by…
If you reward a behaviour, you get more of it. If you punish for a behaviour, you get less of it. Right? Well, no, actually. This fantastic video reminds us that the time is now to get past the ideology of carrot and stick. Now it’s true, that if a task involves only mechanical skill,…