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How well do you contain the anxiety of others?
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs”…………… On the importance of containing anxiety We live in unprecedented times or Megachange as Darrel West calls it. Megachange…
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Making your conversations count
In her book, Conversational Intelligence Judith Glaser proposes that conversational competence is critical to priming the brain for trust, partnership and mutual success. The quality of the conversations we have will determine how well…
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Are you a trust builder?
In organisations, the importance of trust is multi-faceted. Recent World Economic Forum research points to CEO concerns that falling trust in their organisations will hinder growth. Within organisations there is a strong…
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Collaboration – a game of snakes and ladders?
One of the strangest pieces of research we have come across was published in the Harvard Business Review: ‘Adults behave better when Teddy bears are in the room’. The research suggests that…
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Unleash your leader – A Book Review
Don’t be put off by the somewhat adolescent title of this gem of a book. Unleash your leader contains some essential truths every leader needs to know. As consultants, we are often…
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Is true grit what it’s all about?
Will “getting gritty” be one of your New Years’ resolutions? It might seem like a strange suggestion, but I’d like to explain why it’s mine. In episode two of our recent podcast…
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Being fearless
This is the headline statement of an excellent new book called The Fearless Organisation by Amy Edmondson a Professor at Harvard Business School. I have long been an admirer of her research…
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How do you bring insight?
I often hear from organisational leaders that we need to move from providing information to discovering insights. It’s a seductive thought. We have information overload, but where are the rubies in the…
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Habitually resolving to be curious
For many of us new year = new start. Our minds turn to the list of things we plan to do, change, improve and discard in our lives. At my gym a…
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Secrets to success?
We don’t usually go for these lists of supposed ‘secrets’ but we quite like this one. In a 3-minute TED talk, analyst Richard St John distils 500 interviews with successful people into…
