When I ran agencies, there was one recruitment idea that changed the game. It was so incredibly obvious, and yet it took quite the tussle with members of the SLT to get it approved. It was around internal recruitment referrals. “Not a new idea.” I hear you say. Whilst that
“When you set a budget, you’re taking control of your future.” This quote really struck me when I saw it on one of the social media channels. It’s the kind of thing I’m talking to my clients about all the time. The thing people find difficult to grasp is that
Over the years, I’ve seen performance punishment (and the fallout) in action countless times, so this article felt important. Performance punishment, what is it? Performance punishment is a phenomenon whereby high performing employees are given additional tasks, subjected to increased scrutiny or criticism, and/or expected to work longer hours because
An enlightening TedX talk from a comedian and performer, Jordan Raskopolous about the dichotomy between being supremely confident in one area of life and cripplingly anxious in another. I wanted to share this as a reminder that ‘ShyLoud’ is a real thing, to highlight this specific anxiety disorder to anyone
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
Some years ago – before remote working was a standard ‘thing’ – one of my co-workers used to leave voice messages on Slack and Whatsapp. No one really liked it, and it became a bit of a running joke (albeit one she was aware of). But she persisted. As trends
Whilst working with a newly promoted leader last week he was wondering what type of leader he ‘should’ be. He’d clearly got a solid idea about what leadership is and what ‘good’ looks like, but he wasn’t clear about his own style and where to leverage his strengths. In truth,
At the beginning of this year, I held a workshop with 25+ people from the team at JAA, a media agency in London. The workshop was all about inspiring individuals to have more commercially curious conversations in 2023 – challenging them on how they might be able to better serve
“If serving is below you, then leadership is beyond you” – Bishop Dale Bronner I’m forever reiterating to leaders I work with about the benefits of servant leadership. As an article in Harvard business Review pointed out, ‘By focusing too much on control and end goals, and not enough on their
I talk about accountability a lot, and enjoyed this image I saw on LinkedIn recently with a homework example applied against the ‘accountability ladder’. Being accountable is one of the most important qualities of leadership, and also of just being a good human being. People with an Accountable mindset take
