The Science Behind the Global Mindset
Diversity has always been around, we have just tried to ignore it. The ones who were proactive and culturally intelligent are the ones now who are thriving in this economy. It is still not...
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Words to Lead By: Kim Cameron
Kim Cameron, William Russell Kelly Professor of Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, shares some impactful advice he has received: Kim Cameron recalls an early conversation with a...
Borrowing the future from our children
Young people have been seen as well as heard in Scotland of late. At the recent Scottish Parliamentary elections earlier in May, young people aged 16 and 17 voted for the first time in...
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...
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...
The Coaching Habit – Interview with Michael Bungay Stanier
Box of Crayons helps people and organisations to do less Good Work and more Great Work. Michael Bungay Stanier, the founder and senior partner describes what is Great Work in his interview with Eszter...
How to plan for great performance and set people up for success
View this free webinar to explore: Why today’s organisations require a new approach to performance management What successful leaders do to motivate and encourage their people How to leverage strengths to enhance motivation and...
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...
How can I be authentic in what I wear but still fit in?
Being known, liked and trusted is vital for building positive, professional relationships. Personal image is the gateway to building these three. In her talk delivered for Women in Management London, Joanna Gaudoin outlined 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...
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...
Free CMI webinar
In today’s fast changing environment agility and the ability to make change effectively is a key organisational requirement. Yet most change management initiatives fail and employees are increasing tired of, and resistant to, organisational...
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...
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...
