How to coach – Introduction to coaching Part 2
In our last issue we looked at some of the benefits of coaching your team members. Here we consider how you would start coaching. You can coach anytime, anywhere. Your coaching conversations need not...
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Support your brain to focus to increase your productivity & lower your stress
“There are few things ever dreamed of, smoked or injected that have as addictive an effect on our brains as technology” (McGonigal, 2012) and “perhaps not since Early Man first discovered how to use...
Words to Lead By – Henry Stewart
Henry Stewart is founder and Chief Executive of London-based training business Happy Ltd. Happy was rated one of the top 20 workplaces in the UK for 5 successive years and now helps other organisations...
Strength-based leadership
Michelle McQuaid is a best-selling author, workplace wellbeing teacher and playful change activator, she helps organisations using positive psychology and neuroscience to help understand what is happening to people’s brains in complexity and uncertainty....
5 of the best…resources to keep resolutions
How are your New Year’s resolutions coming along? January is the month of getting fit, being more productive, having a new frame of mind. We collected five resources that can help you keep the...
This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
A book that has the capacity to change you and really change your perspective on leadership – says Pete Hamill, author and consultant. ”I would offer it as a counterpoint to a book on...
10 tips for successful projects
Introduction The vision of the APM (Association for Project Management) for 2020 is ‘a world in which all projects succeed’. To achieve this vision experienced project managers need to share their knowledge for the...
Switch – How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Over the last few decades a dispiriting body of research has been amassed, which suggests that the vast majority of change programmes fail, or fail to reach their intended outcomes. In their book Switch...
Career Navigation Cycle
All of us has or had challenges with finding the right job or career for ourselves at some point our lives. Steve Preston discovered there is a definite process to achieve successful career change...
Words to Lead By – Michelle McQuaid
Michelle McQuaid best-selling author, workplace wellbeing teacher and playful change activator and our featured interview in the next issue of People & Purpose. Here sheshares the best piece of advice she received: “Every action...
Editor’s Note – December
Welcome to the December edition of People & Purpose, the Positive Leadership Journal. It has been a busy few weeks in the P&P office and we are delighted and grateful for the positive feedback...
Introduction to Coaching – Part1
Busting coaching myths and why use coaching for enhanced performance Do you use coaching as part of your leadership practice? If not, you may wish to consider learning how to empower people through coaching....
Embodied Leadership
Pete Hamill is a consultant, coach and facilitator, predominantly working in the areas of leadership and organisational development. In this video he talks to Eszter Molnar Mills and describes his approach to leadership development,...
Managing Implementation Risk
When I used to work in Venture Capital we were regularly assessing strategic plans and business plans. If we liked the people, and the idea, we would move on to more detailed due diligence...
Political Intelligence – Leadership in a Shared Power World
Leaders in all sectors are now operating in an environment of shared power – and adjusting to it means they have to do things differently. They need to work with multiple stakeholders and come...
Edison’s method – Collaboration is the key
The light bulb; just a simple object in your everyday life. We need it at home, in the office, on the street, almost everywhere. Thomas Edison frequently receives credit for inventing the light bulb...
How great leaders inspire action
Why is Apple so innovative? Why is it that Martin Luther King led the Civil Rights Movement? Simon Sinek answers these questions in this TED talk. He introduces a really simple but insightful model...
How to build a strong team
10 leadership actions to help your team flourish 1. Develop a team that is made up of people with different experiences and strengths. Successful teams are diverse, with a wide range of complementary strengths;...
Leadership principles to drive results – Interview with Gordon Tredgold
Gordon Tredgold, known as the Leaders’ Leader, is passionate about helping and leading people, helping them to achieve their full potential. He created a collection of principles called FAST that can help people achieve...
What’s top of mind for the world’s chief executives over the next three years?
While confident about the strength of the global economy and their ability to grow their companies, CEOs are focusing on transforming their businesses. These leaders are certainly alert to the changes occurring all around...
