Blog tag: confidence

You are in a leadership position, but it’s your ability to bring your people with you that will see your visions become reality. So, how can you get the right response from your people at a time when it matters more than ever? In our view, much relies on a…

Once again, Gareth Southgate is winning plaudits for his leadership style. And this time, it’s taken England all the way to the final of Euro 2020. While his famous waistcoat from the World Cup 2018 has been dropped, there’s been no change in the effectiveness of Southgate’s leadership, both off…

A lot of people don’t want to be ‘that person’, the one who is always bragging on about how great they are, how good their work is and the ‘proven track record’ they have. However, in our wish to avoid being seen as arrogant or stepping on peoples’ toes, we…

If you love what you do, do you even need to think about work life balance? It’s a question many CEOs, business owners, and entrepreneurs ask us. The short answer is yes – both you and the relationships that matter to you – need looking after, regardless of how well…

Doing a group communication is one of the most agonised over events in organisational life. The number of meetings about meetings, reviews and circulations of scripts and announcements can be staggering and often result in something that’s so bland and watered down that the message is lost, confusing or ineffective.…

Does this sound familiar? There’s a briefing going on, it’s an important project and you’d really like to ask a question. Except that you don’t. If only you had, a little clarity would have made your contribution so much more effective from the outset. A lot of time, energy and…

You’ve invested a huge amount of time and resources hiring the best people, you’ve got them in the right roles and are rewarding them well for their contribution – but you just don’t seem to be getting the success you’d anticipated. We hear this from CEOs a lot, especially in innovative…

here was a time when doing any kind of coaching, self-help or personal development was a bit taboo – you had to be a hippie or have serious issues to spend your time and money on such things. Times have changed and now anyone who’s anyone has a coach and…

It’s risky; speaking up. Many people miss the opportunity for fear of getting it wrong only to regret later not having said anything. Even though speaking up is often spontaneous, a reaction to something unexpected, it doesn’t mean you can’t prepare… The content of what you say will be ‘spur…

A highly sensitive person (HSP) is someone who is very sensitive to the world around them, they are highly perceptive and can preempt things happening in their environment because their nervous system is more sensitive than other people’s. They are people who have a keen imagination; are often labelled too…