Things are taking longer to get done. Bl**dy remote working! This is what a very capable agency owner said to me recently. To expand: “It’s taking longer to get things done. Nothing is as easy as it was. Remote working just makes life difficult. I know people want flexibility, but
There is so much to be said for being completely authentic. Being honest about your successes and your failures (and the feelings associated with both those things) is so incredibly important for building connections. It is perhaps the single most wonderful thing as a coach and non-exec when I get
An old age adage indeed. And yet this very advice is as relevant now as ever before. No one is asking you to promote pushy, aggressive sales tactics, but ‘always be closing’ (applied with a lot of emotional intelligence) should, without exception, be at the back of your mind if
First, in the spirit of togetherness, I’d like to simply say that it’s not just you that struggles with hiring senior people into your team. Almost every business leader I’ve worked with has, at one point or another, decided that the ‘time is now’ to bring in a new senior
September 16th marks 100 days until Christmas. But this isn’t one of those ‘oh bloody hell where did the year go’ articles – rather a reframe to say, “that’s three months during which we can really make a change!’ I’d like to challenge you and your team (as I have
As a team leader, it’s easy to assume that all people working together on a project should be treated and managed similarly. But the reality is that full-time employees (FTEs) and contractors have different motivations, expectations, and backgrounds. Putting together the best talent to create an incredible workforce would appear
After sharing an article recently about The Leadership Circle – a leadership profiling model I have undertaken with my own coach and found particularly useful – I received several questions and comments about its potential and how to go about analysis of what can at first glance seem a
The Global Workplace Study was brought to my attention by Trenton Moss, and if you’ve got some spare time it’s well worth a read. The study focuses on how COVID-19 has affected Engagement and Workplace Resilience — and the interplay between them — in 25 countries. As someone who is
I was recommended The Leadership Circle by my own coach, Bruce. Since I can attest Bruce is both thoughtful and wise (just checking you’re reading my articles Bruce) I figured it would probably be worth sharing. The Leadership Circle offers a number of models, tests and insight into leadership, because,
This brilliantly constructed article examines Patrick and John Collison, the co-founders of Stripe, a technology payments company whose mission is to ‘increase the GDP of the internet.’ It’s a long read – so I chose not to try and summarise it like I do with other long forms – but
