As the year draws to a close, I’ve been reflecting on the changes we’ve been through. We’ve been through fear, loss and sadness. We’ve been agile, we’ve flexed and become virtual. We’ve had division, incredulity and unacceptance alongside kindness, compassion and...
Last night I joined a Find Your Why workshop with the team from Simon Sinek Ltd. It was an Open Mic, ‘pay what you can’ session with the aim of helping you pin down your ‘statement of purpose’ I posted about ‘finding my why’ a week or two ago. At that point I’d...
One of my research questions was: do strategic level leaders have more self-awareness than leaders at any other level? The literature suggested yes. My research said no! In the questionnaire, people had to give responses for themselves and their manager. I grouped...
The second part of my research involved doing eight interviews. Similar themes kept coming up and what people told me, backed up my questionnaire findings. Five particularly strong themes came through the interviews. They’re listed below, in order or importance:...
My research questionnaire was in 4 parts - demographics, self-awareness, leader effectiveness and free text. The self awareness section. was made up of 24 statements. Welsh public service employees had to rate their agreement to each statement, from 1 - strongly...
My research focussed on self-awareness, leader effectiveness and leadership at all levels of the Welsh public service. I asked Welsh public service employees to complete a questionnaire and I carried out some interviews. My findings told me that there was a...
It's going to be a different Christmas for so many of us this year, but I hope you have a peaceful and restful few days and you're able to connect with family and friends virtually, if not actually. Let's hope for a kinder, better 2021 for us all
Six months ago, we were talking about a requirement for a new leadership. We talked about crisis management, flexibility and agility. We talked about emotional intelligence and a need for leaders to recognise the importance of staff wellbeing. It seems like we’ve...
Empty vessels make most noise That’s my very simple translation of the Kruger Dunning Effect (Kruger and Dunning, 1999) In researching self awareness, it was impossible not to be drawn to the description of what it is not, as well as what it is. The Kruger Dunning...
Whilst casually scrolling through Facebook over lunch today I saw a video about an all female car garage called Spanners with Manners It instantly caught my attention and jolted me into taking notice. I felt an incredible sense of pride both because of what the owner,...