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...
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...
A few conversations recently with the idea of innovation in mind have led me to this month's theme. Many businesses will say they have a culture where innovation thrives and so it's always a good idea to try and put this to the test, so here’s a few ideas on what this...
Having done a fair amount of this recently, working on myself, it's fair to say my own awareness of how well others are reflecting has been raised. I can see so many opportunities for us to get better at this both individually and in teams and so, why not capture a...
Whilst recently spending a fair chunk of time with my head in business strategy I was reminded in one of my coaching engagements that breadth is important. What do I mean by that…..well, many people assume that success in leadership comes from strategic thinking,...
Reflecting back on 2024 and looking at what we are engaged in going into 2025, this idea of working on bringing about 'High Performing Teams' is something that has continued to be a feature of what we are doing at Get Knowledge these days.And so, my thoughts on a page...
We're almost at the end of the year. This time of year always brings me around to some element of reflection on how things have gone, how they are going and the general direction it’s all heading in. Nothing new there then and so I thought I would use this months drop...
Having recently started working with a couple of new teams, it always gets me thinking about the dynamics of how they work and fundamentally how they learn, as a team. Peter Senge, a thought leader in the systems thinking space, talks around this idea of "team...
This was a question i heard someone ask on stage at a conference the other week. There was no answer after the question by the way. Why is it an important question? It may help to start here, in case you're not convinced it's important. Joining strategy with the front...
Having heard someone mention 'the gap' between field and office operations recently, I decided to capture some thoughts around this in this month's drop. This is a subject that isn’t new, it's recognised that it’s a problem by leaders, yet it's rarely leveraged to the...