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Is a lack of ‘Alignment’ holding back your People Strategy?

Last week, I had the opportunity to lead a conversation with a group of HR and business leaders on one of the most overlooked, but decisive factors in whether a people strategy succeeds… Alignment. This is always interesting for me, coming at what is positioned as...

Is the Future of Leadership ‘People-Facing’?

Having leaned into more AI recently and beginning to understand how it is going to shape my own practice, I thought it may be worth some time to consider what all of this might mean for those of us in leadership or management positions. It's definitely not a 'look...

How to Secure the Budget for Your L&D Strategy

You don’t need convincing, and we know we are preaching to the choir when we say that L&D is essential to business success. But while most organisations are happy to fund the odd workshop or ‘fix-the-problem’ training session, making the case for a sustained...

Are Your Strategies Aligned or Just Coexisting?

During the recent days of extreme heat, I happened to have a great day out at the Northumbrian Water Innovation festival, taking part in a sprint there. This is what formed the basis of what I'm dropping this month.This isn’t because this is an new avenue of thinking...

Is your lack of ‘Leader Gravitas’, preventing you from gaining ‘High Trust’?

I first met this term when I was working in financial services over 20 years ago, and recently I've been reintroduced as part of a leadership development programme. If your anything like me you will have a view on what might be a part of this term 'gravitas', and so...

How are your significant ‘change cycles’ developing your leadership?

I'm going to keep this month's nice and brief, highlighting something that really connected with me this past few weeks. The weather may have helped, given I seem to be reflecting in the garden more. It was the concept of '7 year cycles' as described in this Harvard...