A brilliant colleague of mine has started running lunchtime professional development session. Just 30 minutes, to watch a video and discuss its meaning to you. Today’s discussed revolved around intention, as a leader. We talked about how values drive intention which...
I’ve discovered an interesting concept on LinkedIn called Quiet Leadership, which is being shaped by Julian Stodd, Sea Salt Learning. My husband thinks it hilarious if not somewhat disturbing, that I’ve connected with a stranger on LinkedIn, given him my home address...
You are what you read. That’s what an email from Harvard Business Review told me today. And I agree. We’ve discovered that what we read online feeds what is shown to us online, due to the clever algorithms employed behind the scenes. It makes it doubly important that we research broadly, read widely and think holistically……….
I’m so delighted! I’ve been made a trustee of Coram Voice!
Coram Voice is a charity that focussed on children and young people in care, leaving care or requiring support from the state. They champion the rights of children and young people and ensure that their voices are heard
I’m so glad that the Democrats have won. If you take our Equality Act as the yard stick by which to judge Trump, the last 4 years have been a considerable retrograde step. Yet men and women, young people and old people, black people and white people have voted for him. People have nailed their colours to the mast and it’s not a shade of grey, it’s as black and white as red and blue……………..
Today feels like a day of being in limbo. No the kind that comes with a sandy beach and cocktail umbrellas. The kind that has you wondering, waiting and worrying…………………
It’s tough to be motivated right now. COVID, lockdowns, terrorism, fascism, dark morning, wet days, early nights, need I go on?
As leaders how do we motivate people when so much of the challenges impacting motivation is out of our hands? Here are some thoughts………….
When I wrote the definition of leader effectiveness in my thesis, I found that listing the good, positive, bright side as well as the bad, negative, dark side was really helpful in presenting a rounded definition of what it was and what it was not……………………
I’ve been thinking about specialism versus generalism for a while and today I stumbled on an article from Harvard Business review discussing the value of generalists in the world of research and development. The article talks about the benefit of generalist researchers who have a breadth of knowledge versus specialist researchers who have a depth of knowledge…………………
On the weekend I spent a few hours watching some of the presentations of the Jobs Reset Summit, hosted by the World Economic Forum. I caught a session on ‘A Vision for Leadership in the Great Reset’…..