Today’s managers need to embrace a coaching mindset, not top-down leadership
Upskilling your managers and encouraging them to foster a coaching mindset will transform your organisation in ways you never thought possible.
Managing leadership performance with effective 360
Elva Ainsworth discusses the merits of utilising 360 within management performance – outlining six ways in which leaders can maximise the benefits.
Is leadership an L&D obsession?
L&D is obsessing over leadership and it’s time to stop.
Why forward-thinking leaders need to adopt different vantage points
Leaders need to start capitalising on the unique positions that they find themselves in.
How vocal dynamism can refine your public speaking skills
Essential techniques to improve your voice when presenting to others
Four key skills for the next generation of leaders
As we move to a hybrid model of working, leadership skills will also need to evolve.
Seven big mistakes new leaders make and how to avoid them
The biggest mistakes new leaders make and how to avoid them.
Lessons from Boris Johnson’s reign: Why the world needs a new type of leader
Why leaders should ignore outdated ideas of what constitutes good leadership skills, and should instead adopt the more balanced, Yin-Yang approach.
Why we need ethical leaders
To lead with the type of compassion and insight that the world needs, leaders have to understand themselves and others – they have to be ethical.
Why space for reflection is critical in learning and development
By making reflection a habit, L&D practitioners have the potential to offer so much more value.
The six paths to leadership and how to successfully switch lanes
Discovering new critical insights and strategies for managing across six diverse leadership styles
The future of executive coaching is driven by 360 data
Why you should use 360 data to improve the coaching experience
Extroverts don’t always make the most stable leaders
Extroverts tend to emerge as natural leaders in the workplace, however new research reveals they experience high turnover in their networks.
Personal development: Learn how to fail every day
The path to success is seldom smooth. The key to overcoming this is learning how to fail and get back up again.
Training resource – Effective Delegation
Over the next couple of days, I will be posting a resource that can be used to deliver an introductory training course on effective delegation to new and first-time managers. The resource titled Introducing Effective Delegation will be posted in parts. The resource will have both virtual and face-to-face versions but I will post just the virtual […]
Personal development: The art of talking to yourself more positively at work
How to turn internal mind-chatter into positive action at work.
Pride 2022: Above all, do no harm
Pride 2022: Raf Uzar explores how we must follow the Hippocratic Oath in doing no harm to protect employees and allow everyone to be their true selves at work.
Leadership development: In-role CEOs and the benefits of enabling leadership at all levels
Empowering leaders at all levels isn’t just an option for L&D – it’s a necessity.
A cloudy IT vision obscures customer needs
As directors you don’t need to know much about the technical side of your business; you can leave all of that to the IT department. Right? Well no, actually very wrong. Yes there are some areas which you can reasonably be expected to delegate. For example, if the server ‘falls over’ or some new code […]
Why it’s time for L&D professionals to forget traditional notions of leadership
Rama Gheerawo explores the idea of ‘creative leadership’ – examining what has gone wrong with traditional leadership, and why anyone can be a modern day leader.
