Discovery series – Part 7

Discovery series – Part 7

The themes which came out of my research have neatly grouped themselves into ten, so I’m going to write ten parts in the Discovery Series. In this blog I’m going to talk about: Definitions, benefits of self-awareness and behaviour (good and bad)Reflection DEFINITIONS:...

Leadership, Needs and Wants

Leadership, Needs and Wants

As I got ready for work this morning I was thinking about whether the store my husband manages will be covering up the non-essentials and taking them off sale, following the lockdown announcement yesterday. That got me thinking about what is essential and...

2021: The Book List 1-6

2021: The Book List 1-6

What will you do differently in 2021? I’m going to read more books. In true planner style, I’ve started to write a list of the books that I want to read. I’m up to June so far! January Simon Sinek: The Infinite Game: How Great Businesses Achieve Long-Lasting Success...

Leadership, Value and the Infinite Game

It’s been another day of learning. A colleague shared a link to a podcast on our Trust’s leaders’ network WhatsApp group and being as it was Sunday, the comfy chair was vacant and the clouds were making patterns in the sky, I decided to sit down with a cup of tea and...

Leaders Go First

Leaders Go First

It’s a Saturday afternoon and I couldn’t find replays of the A-Team anywhere. So I scoured YouTube for Simon Sinek's Book Club and watched the first chapter of live questions about The Infinite Game In the hour-long session Simon said something which really struck a...

Thought Leaders in Review

2020 has been the year of lockdown-learning. I finished writing up my research in early autumn so my weekends became uncharacteristically free. I threw myself into learning, discovering new people and exploring what the modern philosophers wnd thought leaders were...

Goodbye 2020. Hello 2021

It’s not the year we expected it to be. We had high hopes for the first year of the 20s but it’s brought in to sharp focus our needs, wants, tolerances and priorities. It’s highlighted inequalities in the way we treat our fellow human beings and it’s shone a spotlight...

Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose

Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose

I recently stumbled on a talk about motivation by Dan Pink. It was quite a revelation. Science says that rewards and incentives are actually demotivators. But business continues to use rewards and incentives as motivators. Pink has discovered that what actually...

Discovery Series – Part 6

Discovery Series – Part 6

In bringing all my research findings together, I developed the Corollary Model. It corralled the questionnaire findings, interview findings and literature comparison together into one glorious triangle! I discovered that there was a relationships between...