Category: Leadership
As we transition to hybrid working, it’s time for leaders to provide a vision…
- Created by Jenny Powell
- on the 8 March, 2022.
How To Perform Under Pressure
- Created by Jenny Powell
- on the 30 September, 2021.
I wrote recently about the heartening aspects of returning to in-person training. But finally being in a room together isn’t always without its pressures. When you haven’t met in person for a long time there’s the possibility you or your colleagues have changed. You may hold assumptions about each other that are no longer true, […]
Virtual Training vs In-Person Training – Which is Better?
- Created by Jenny Powell
- on the 20 May, 2021.
When “life as we know it” ended last March and the world shut down, so did in-person training… With offices closed and everyone working from home, the choice was stark; either adapt to the world of virtual – and fast – or give up delivering any training for the foreseeable future (initially weeks, then months, […]
- Created by Jenny Powell
- on the 23 March, 2021.
We may have been training virtually but we’ve still been delivering internationally. Every country we’ve worked with in the last year…
Take Off The Failure Badge
- Created by Sue Farmer
- on the 1 March, 2018.
“I am a failure.” These were the opening words of what became a real outpouring of emotion. Their conversation was fast, words tripping over each other. I looked quizzically, not sure I understood the statement. “I’m almost 50, single and not in a job I love. I look around me and I’m the only one […]
The Power Of The “Me” Filter
- Created by Sue Farmer
- on the 30 November, 2017.
I’d like to share this brief extract from my second “Transforming Mind Matters” podcast with Social Media Angel Katie Brockhurst, where I shared a recent anecdote: “I had a bit of an interesting week. I was lucky in that I had the opportunity to observe a board meeting in preparation for some development work I am […]
Stop Blaming The World For Your Woes
- Created by Sue Farmer
- on the 12 July, 2017.
The answer to your woes never lies in changing “out there”. You can always find it by looking “in here”. I wonder how many times I walk away from a meeting with an executive under pressure thinking, “Wow, when will they stop and slow down for long enough to hear the answer inside?” I listen […]
Managing “millennials” …
- Created by Jenny Powell
- on the 4 June, 2015.
Thought Gen X was tough to manage and motivate? Well, what about Generation Y, otherwise known as the Millennials? Those born between the early 80s and the early noughties fall into this category. They are now well and truly a part of the workforce and present a whole different array of opportunities and challenges. They […]
The ‘Expert’ Boss – Invaluable or a Constraint?
- Created by Sue Farmer
- on the 9 April, 2015.
I worked for a guy a few years ago who was definitely a victim of the ‘no one can do this as well as I can’ principle! In essence he was one of the good guys and yet he held this misguided belief that ‘knowledge is power’. So in order to retain his managerial status […]
5 questions to ask yourself if you want to be a good leader
- Created by Sue Farmer
- on the 30 March, 2015.
“How old should you be to ensure you are a good leader?” This was an intriguing question asked by one of my coaching clients recently. And the question comes from an over used exercise, that is still referred to by many, so called, leadership development sessions where people are asked to; “Think of a great […]