ABLE is effective in helping organisations solve their most pressing people development challenges. ABLE enables a myriad of opportunities to effectively learn leadership, and team performance skills, which are impactful and memorable. As they're uniquely designed to fit an organisations needs, they not only provide a shared learning experience, they will highlight and change behaviours … Continue reading Adventure Based Learning Experiences (ABLE)
Dr Kathy Allen made many excellent points when I spoke to her about her work at the intersection of leadership, system change and innovation. One point was that old paradigms get really โloudโ before they fall. I noticed that in 2008 with the last bank crash. Paradigm winners get really greedy as they try to … Continue reading DEAD vs LIFE Leadership
In the UK, air pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health. The annual mortality of human-made air pollution in the UK is roughly equivalent toย between 28,000 and 36,000 deaths every year. Asthmaย is the most common long-term medical condition in children in the UK, with aroundย one in 11 children and young people living with … Continue reading How Capitalism and Hierarchy Continue to Destroy the Health of the World.
Mentoring is a powerful way of imparting knowledge and developing people within organisations. Mentoring is a powerful way of imparting knowledge and developing people within organisations. The word Mentor originates from Homer's classic poem, 'The Odyssey', describing a time around 1200BC when Odyssus was preparing to travel a great distance. He asked 'Mentor' to act … Continue reading Mentoring is a powerful way of imparting knowledge and developing people within organisations.
When I wrote my Book: โFrom Mercenaries to Missionariesโ I wanted to give entrepreneurs, executives and managers tools around leadership and teamwork that are sublimely simple and easy to implement. Too much of the leadership lexicon has fallen into the realms of academia. Nothing wrong with academic study, but academia is often the activity of … Continue reading Too Many TAPs, Not Enough STOPโs, We Need More LEGO
About every decade or so there are shifts. Big impacts land which affect personal and business domains. For some people its good news and for others not so. I personally think this is part of a universal life cycle which encourages evolution. I also think that big changes are happening more often due to advances … Continue reading The 4 Responses to Big Shifts
Why is ownershipย so important in team and individual engagement? With ownership one could argue, the owner's worldview is to extract value from people working on 'their' projects where as, a leader is leveraging the potential of a group of people to co-create value for the community. Ownership is one of the greatest cons of all … Continue reading Ownership or Leadership?
When I was teaching leadership to intelligence agents in a far off land, they explained to me that although they loved the concepts they feared they would encounter resistance in the bureaucratic systems they work in. We've all got to become leaders. I wrote a book 'Mercenaries to Missionaries' (see link in comments) which is … Continue reading OPERATION BUTTERFLY (TOP SECRET)
Being able to overcome our habitual decision making gives us a helicopter view. That's important in complex and challenging times. Chances are you'll favour 1 or 2 of the following 4 styles: REACTIONARY: You like to move to think, you tackle challenges head on. You make snap decisions based on your preferences & you like … Continue reading What kind of decision maker are you?
