This past week, I received an email from a former client I had worked with on a leadership development programme for a group of relatively young managers. The opening line popped up in my inbox and read…“Your influence is enduring…”I’ll be honest, I thought they had...

This week my youngest son, who's 16 and taller than me so that should give you a better picture, had to go to the dentist for a filling. If you know a little about me and my family you’ll probably know we are a neurodiverse bunch. For most families then, this outing...

So, I heard this recently, "You're going to have to really sell this to them." A comment I have heard before a few times, but I can’t remember writing anything down around my thinking in relation to this so here goes. The context behind this is as follows…..we'd (I...

I've being thinking about this balance a lot recently so decided to write something down around this. From what i see, many leadership teams struggle with the balance between support and challenge. I spend a fair chunk of time considering this when working in both...

I didn’t write anything last month which is the first time that's happened since I began doing this. If this was a game of Cricket I would have made a half century and then got out. But that's a little negative, I was extremely busy on a number of fronts and had to...

It’s fair to say that most leaders I meet genuinely care about their impact. That’s most, not all. They typically want their teams to feel trusted and they want the high standards without burning people out. They want everything that Maslow described and to be the...