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Management THEN Leadership
From even a cursory glance at my website and social posts, you could gather that I “do” leadership. However, the thing that is really important to me is that clients master management THEN leadership. This applies to the Future Leaders that I support with networking...
Visibility Vs Perception
It’s the age-old marketing conundrum, where people confuse Visibility Vs Perception. What does this mean? It means a wealth of different things for my clients, depending on what is going on in their organisations. However, it boils down to their perception is not...
Discretion Guaranteed!
“Discretion” is also described as “circumspection” or “the act of being discreet”. As clear as mud to most of us. Nevertheless, I am using this old saying and changing it slightly, to make a point in this article. Much of my work is carried out in secret. 100%...
Are you part of The Great Resignation?
People have coined a lot of phrases as a result of Covid. “The Great Resignation” is the latest, but perhaps one of the most telling. There appears to be a pattern of disenchanted employees leaving their jobs as a result of their lockdown experience (good or bad). ...
Reminding you about Future Leaders Breakfast® networking
This month, I will be posting across all my platforms to remind you about the Future Leaders Breakfast® or FLBs® networking events open along the South Coast before the Summer. I thought it might help, to start at the very beginning … with our "why.” Why Future...
Know Yourself
How well do you know yourself? We all like to think we know ourselves really well. We might also know a lot of our own strengths, foibles and development areas. That might not actually be true. And that’s hard for some of us to face … others might actually know us...
Are you bouncing back in Leadership?
Five years ago, I came across an interesting report, about bouncing back in leadership. It was by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and focused on leaders’ resilience. They reprised it in 2020 with good cause. In this blog I take a slightly different look at...
Leading Ahead of the Curve
In this blog, I’ll explore how refocusing on your leadership skills can keep your organisation ahead of the curve. At the forefront of or leading in something, such as a developing situation, field of study or business, social development, etc. This is how the...
Being a Confidante to CEOs
In this blog I explore how I work, being a confidante to CEOs, business owners and Managing Directors. This came about by accident. A client of mine was clearly struggling with his ambition and finding the people and the structures to make it a reality. “It’s all...