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Trust: a critical element of leadership
4th April 2013Trust is a key enabler to getting the results that organisations need. Leaders need to nurture relationships at work and need to be able to trust their teams. And their teams need to be able to trust them too. One of the outcomes of development of this kind is that leaders find themselves getting more from their teams without much apparent effort. They find that the members of those teams take more initiative and more responsibility,
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Twitter announces new two-tier service
1st April 2013Twitter has announced today, 1st April, that they are shifting to a two-tiered service: Everyone can use the basic service, Twttr, but they will only get consonants. For five dollars a month, you can use the premium “Twitter” service, which also includes vowels.
Read more »Making Culture Change Stick
29th March 2013On 10th May in London, our partner ANKLe (A New Kind of Leadership) is running a workshop entitled 'Making Culture Change Stick'. Participants will explore what they mean by culture change and will examine a range of new as well as tried and tested tools and techniques for managing and embedding culture change in organisations.
Read more »Approaching the finishing line of the 30 Day Challenge
29th March 2013The 30 Day Challenge draws to a close. I've been challenged, supported, and held accountable, and I've gained some insights. I'm learning about blogging - and about topics I'd never anticipated - and I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying the blogging process. I'm on the alert for topics to blog about - and now that I'm blogging twice a week, I feel 'in the groove'. My next step is to ensure that my blog is read and to build a readership.
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Connect!
28th March 2013My core message is ‘Connect’ – make relationships and nurture them. When people connect, they care enough to hear what’s going on for the other person without judging it, pre-empting, advising or interrupting: they just listen. Out of that apparently simple interaction new perspectives, insights and solutions can emerge.
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The other side of the development coin
23rd March 2013A humorous short video on the perils implicit in development professionals 'knowing what's good for their clients'.
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The S-curve
22nd March 2013The S curve, developed by Dr Peter Robertson, is a model of organisational development. To survive in the long-term, organisations need to jump from the stage of squeezing out efficiencies and closing down the old business model to starting again with designing a new future.
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United Nations launches International Happiness Day
21st March 2013Higher GDP doesn't make people happy. Does being happy enable higher GDP? Does it enable more productivity, creativity and engagement in your organisation? And does being unhappy or stressed diminish your organisation's GDP?
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The crazy ones
17th March 2013"The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
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Trust at work
16th March 2013Leaders who trust their people, and who are trusted, tend to be rewarded with engagement, motivation, discretionary effort, creativity, retention, integrity and better decision-making. Look to the NHS for some examples of trust that's missing.
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