Leadership lessons from the Ryder Cup
Continuing an exclusive series of articles offering leadership lessons from everyday life, Neil Twogood examines Colin Montgomerie’s role in the 2010 Ryder Cup. After torrential downpours, a change in format and an unprecedented fourth day of play, the 2010 Ryder Cup reached a nail-biting finale. A gritty fightback by the Americans took it down to […]
The leadership interview: Simon Cohen
In this month’s leadership interview, Mike Levy talks to Simon Cohen, CEO of global tolerance. The banking crisis and the subsequent global downturn have put the H word into the spotlight. According to Simon Cohen, that H stands for Honesty but it could also stand for a word you seldom hear in business life: Happiness. Cohen, a […]
Caption Competition
This month’s winning caption: “The local council responded to the CSR by reducing the size of their customer service staff” Congratulations to Lynn Hughes who has won this month’s caption competition! A bottle of wine will be winging its way to you. In order to enter our caption competitions you need to sign in […]
Leadership challenges in humanitarian sector
To tackle global challenges such as climate change effectively, international charities must improve their leadership-related talent and performance management processes and ensure that they work across interagency boundaries. Cath Everett reports. This is because, over the next decade, it will no longer be possible to deal with issues ranging from climate change to global insecurity, […]
L&D managers at a crossroads?
In response to a series of articles published earlier this year on TrainingZone, John Pope thinks we need to look at the fundamentals of leadership and management. Donald Taylor has recently written a series of three interesting articles on the training of managers. He emphasises how much more managers and knowledge workers now have to learn, […]
How knowing yourself helps you in leadership
Kieran Maloney examines what ‘inner resources’ and self-knowledge we can utilise to sustain leadership. With management and leadership the place to start is with yourself and self-management, or at least self-awareness. The situation is that if we cannot manage or be aware of ourselves, how can we manage or be aware of others? This is […]
Failure and adversity “key to leadership potential”
There is no substitute for failure when it comes to identifying and developing great leaders, according to research published yesterday by the Institute of Leadership & Management. The report, Creating Future Leaders, reveals that a quarter of employers (24%) look for candidates who have experienced failure and bounced back from difficult challenges when identifying their […]
CIPD: We must invest in leadership training
If the UK is to close the productivity gap with international competitors, the coalition government must focus expenditure on improving the country’s poor quality of management, an HR body has warned. In response to its Skills for Sustainable Growth consultation, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) urged the government to develop a […]
A leadership reflection: Today is tomorrow’s yesterday
In the first of a new series of articles offering lessons for leaders from everyday life, Alan Ward finds inspiration from an unlikely source. His moral for leaders is to embrace the present and not to let your past dictate or constrain your future. During my summer break, I was able to spend some time […]
Trust me, I’m a leader
Mark Loftus of The Thinking Partnership talks about why trusting your leaders is paramount to maintaining their -and their organisation's- integrity. Fiona Gammond and Georgia Howard-Merrill did win gold in the junior women's pair at the Youth Olympics and are now rapidly re-acclimatising to the normality of schoolwork, evening homework and university applications. Their winning […]
Leadership: Time to get it right
Eugene Gallagher addresses the issue of the general confusion surrounding the concept of leadership. A confusion resulting in organisations being unable to avail of the benefits that the exercise of leadership would bring to the enterprise. Over 25 years ago Warren Bennis described leadership as ‘the least understood phenomenon in the world’. Sadly it remains […]
Caption competition
This month’s winning caption: ‘Sister Mary wondered where the team building activity was leading‘ Photo credit: Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Courtesy Everett Collection/Rex Features Congratulations to Gaynor Hill who has won this month’s caption competition! A bottle of wine will be winging its way to you. In order to enter our […]
Leadership lessons from the world of jazz
Dan Hammond captures the leadership lessons from a seminar by Craig Scott from the Sydney Conservatorium. "There’s probably no better example of democracy than a jazz ensemble; individual freedom but with responsibility to the group." Michelle Obama made this statement earlier this year hosting a White House music series. Is it possible that a jazz […]
Judging potential
Mark Loftus highlights the three fallacies we need to be aware of when judging someone’s potential. By the time you read this, Britain’s women rowers may have added an Olympic gold to go alongside the gold they won at the World Championships earlier this month. Don’t worry, you haven’t overslept – it isn’t 2012 yet. […]
Managing nerves to deliver the goods
Do you get nervous before delivering an important presentation or when pitching for new business? William Winstone outlines several ways to keep those nerves at bay before the big day. In the world of sport psychology, some athletes are more prone to performance anxiety and nerves than others. And while in pure performance terms it […]
Caption competition
This month’s winning caption: ‘A willing volunteer had been found for the practical example of the sink or swim analogy.’ Congratulations to Stuart Avis who has won this month’s caption competition! A bottle of wine will be winging its way to you. In order to enter our caption competitions you need to sign in […]
How to use embodied leadership to engage your employees
How do leaders maintain engagement of their key talent? How do you apply the ‘ecology of talent’ to business? Colin Reeve explores the idea of embodied leadership. In today’s fast-paced, impatient and often stressful world, leaders need to find a way of leading that liberates people to contribute their unique talents willingly – thereby giving […]
Nature not nurture: Raising a better leader
Nigel Watson thinks we should break the patter of trying to be everyone’s best friend in order to be a better leader. From a very young age we are all encouraged to seek out positive feedback. Therefore, moving into a position of leadership where we might be required to ask people, or worse still, our […]
Reality check for many UK managers
Cath Everett reports on a new survey from the CMI where results suggest that some UK-based managers are more confident in their ability to lead than they should be. More than half of UK managers delude themselves as to their strengths and weaknesses due to a heady mix of inadequate training and development, and being […]
Can everyone be a leader?
Ruth Spellman suggests that with the right training opportunities the skills that make a great leader can be learnt. Asked who they think is a good leader, most people tend to cite Richard Branson. Some also focus on sporting icons, with Andrew Strauss’ name coming to the fore since the England cricket team’s reversal of fortunes. […]