Are you a compassionate leader?
While I was reading the news, I came across a classic example of lack of compassion in an organisation. An…
The Leader as Storyteller
Storytelling is receiving increasing attention in the management literature as a powerful tool for addressing many of today’s key leadership…
Relax – don’t do it! Tips for overworked executives
For any executive coaches of C-suite managers, the findings of the Odgers-Berndston Lonely at the Top survey of FTSE 350…
Coaching Fundamentals Part Nine: Boundaries
Boundaries. One of the first words you hear in coach training, usually accompanied with an overlapping Venn diagram consisting of…
Mixing my leadership metaphors
There is no shortage of competency frameworks and theory that seek to describe what effective leadership is all about. Indeed…
Infographic: Five ways to improve your resilience
Roffey Park has a range of resources on the topic of resilience including an online tool to measure your own…
Hubris Syndrome and organisational leadership
On 18 November the Royal School of Medicine, the Daedalus Trust and the British Psychological Society will meet with a collection of professionals to…
What’s compassion got to do with management and HR?
Management surveys contain a lot of data, some useful, some not. Much is dry, and relevant only to people who…
Managing motivation
Any conversation around motivation and retention as it relates to financial rewards as incentive needs to consider a fundamental question:…
The fallacy of the unmeasurable ‘soft’ intervention
When the clamour for change reaches fever pitch, as it is around the NHS at present, evidence based decision-making can fall…
Managing underperformance – having difficult conversations
Last week the Beecroft report hit the headlines as the government’s plans to boost growth and productivity were made public. …
How to improve your people management skills by using feedback
The CIPD’s recent Employee Outlook Survey reported recently that investing in people management capabilities would make a significant contribution to productivity and…