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Words to Lead By – Boomy Tokan
Boomy Tokan small business consultant, the founder of Start Your Own Business Academy, speaker and author shares his most impactful piece of advice: Tokan suggests to make little tweaks and there will come a time...
Editor’s Note – March 2016
Welcome to the March 2016 issue of People & Purpose – the Positive Leadership Journal, thank you for joining us on this journey. This issue is dedicated to the topic of hiring and in...
Calling women to leadership – Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Facebook, gave a TED Talk about why are so few women in leadership roles. Her book, Lean In started from that 15 minute talk. Sandberg’s point is...
Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume
In her TED Talk, Regina Hartley, UPS’s human resources director makes an argument that candidates who often don’t look that good on paper might be the ones that you want to hire, rather than...
5 of the best…Twitter influencers
Great leaders never stop learning, they know they can always improve themselves. We have found Twitter to be a great resource for thoughts, ideas and examples. Here are some of the best influencers that...
CMI Level 5 Certificate in Management and Leadership workshop
A strength-based 3-day training programme for managers and leaders seeking to thrive in their role, leading to a Chartered Management Institute (CMI) qualification Next course: Monday 23 – Wednesday 25 May 2016, 10am –...
3 ways to create a high performance culture
Does culture matter? Recent research carried out by James Heskett at Harvard Business School suggests that 20%-30% of corporate performance can be attributed to a positive, strong performance culture. As Edgar Schein, probably the...
Striving for excellence – what Aristotle would want us to know
The notion of striving for excellence is not new, but remains an essential one in professional and personal development, as most leaders, managers, coaches and business figures, in one way or another, will tell...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Leadership actions that help you develop a positive culture in your team or organisation
View this free webinar to explore: What organisational culture is and how it is determined What high performance cultures have in common 3 leadership actions you need to take to develop a positive culture within...
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...
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....
Why are we waiting for the New Year?
With the festive period upon us and end of year leadership responsibilities stacking up life could feel stressful both in and out of work and, as you head towards the end of the year,...
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,...
Gung Ho! – How To Motivate People In Any Organization by Ken Blanchard
More of a fable than a leadership textbook, this book is about someone who goes to a company and turns around its performance through 3 principles: the spirit of the squirrel, the way of...
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...
