Insights
Category: leadership development
Frustrated by someone on your team? Why they might be the one who can help you the most.
As social beings, we tend to surround ourselves with people like us when it is those who are different that help us challenge our perspectives and assumptions.
Why leadership development doesn’t work (and how to make sure it does)
In a recent survey by Gartner, more than 800 HR leaders across 60 countries and all major industries identified leader and manager effectiveness as their biggest priority for 2023.
Back to (Leadership) School
Back to school season is now upon us! As we look back on our remarkably hot summer and gasp “where did the time go?” many parents will be frantically scrambling together the ever-growing list of kit needed to prepare their offspring for the new school year ahead.
How to deal with imposter syndrome
Years ago I wasn’t given a promotion I really wanted that I felt I had been working hard towards. I was disappointed and wanted to know why. When I sat down with my manager she told me I needed to improve my facilitation and presentation skills.
Do you need to be more strategic?
Have you ever been told you need to be more strategic? If you have, you’re not alone. Most Executives give their leaders feedback that they expect them to be more strategic, yet often fail to describe exactly what that means.
April 2022 – Strengths
When we understand our strengths, we can spend more time doing what we are good at. For this month's video, Vicki Haverson, Principle Consultant for Greenacre Consult, talks about her own strengths journney, and how recognising her own unique strengths has helped her to understand herself better.
March 2022 – What Leadership Means
This month, we asked Liz Oliver, Safer Homes Director at the Hyde Group & Chair of WISH East, and Lucy Malarkey, Director at Positive About Inclusion & Managing Director of WISH, what leadership means to them.
February 2022 – Purpose
Understanding our purpose helps us to align our values with our goals. For this month's video, I asked Daniel Short, Barry Forsythe and Vicki Haverson from Greenacre Group what purpose means to them personally, in the context of career development, organisational management and leadership development.
How To Find The Job You Love
If you take the average of the many studies that have been conducted into employee engagement somewhere in the region of 80% of people are disengaged in their job.