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The open plan office. Guaranteed to stifle human interaction.

The open plan office. Guaranteed to stifle human interaction.

Career development, Leadership Development

I recently spent a day working in a client’s office. Lucky me. It’s a long time since I did so, and I was struck by something rather unnerving. This was an open plan office, with I imagine about thirty people working in it. What struck me was that the...

What happens when people believe what you believe

Career development, Leadership Development

A few weeks ago the paperback version of my book “My Job Isn’t Working!” was released. You may well already know that, as I have been shouting about it ruthlessly and shamelessly, as a tribute to my wife who passed away suddenly when she...
The Top Three Dysfunctions of a Meeting

The Top Three Dysfunctions of a Meeting

Business Skills Training, Leadership Development, Time Management

For the last 20 years or so I have been unwittingly researching corporate dysfunctionality through my work in Leadership Development around the world. Over that time, from conversations with thousands of mid career workers, I have noticed a pattern in what causes the...
The Top 3 ways to update your Leadership style

The Top 3 ways to update your Leadership style

Business Coaching, Leadership Development, Leadership Skills Training

One of the exercises I use most often in my leadership workshops is to split the group into three and ask them to consider what skills and qualities are required of them as leaders, and how this is different to five years ago.  They have to agree what they think are...
Why Leadership is harder now than it’s ever been.

Why Leadership is harder now than it’s ever been.

Leadership Development, Leadership Skills Training

Leadership skills are a precious resource in the workplace, and there are forces which contrive to make them increasingly scarce.  The first and most obvious of these is that Leadership is often time -consuming (taking time to understand other people, to get to know...
Why should anyone be managed by YOU?

Why should anyone be managed by YOU?

Business Skills Training, Leadership Development, Management Skills

There are plenty of highly competent managers on the planet, and you are no doubt one of them. You manage people because you’re good at it, and you got to where you are by showing the appropriate level of competence in the various disciplines of achieving results...
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