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Liberating your leadership enablers
Leadership is about influencing others to work towards a vision or mission and I’ve yet to experience anyone asking me to influence them – leadership is rarely something that people give you; it’s something you have to take! “Leadership is the readiness to stand out...
First impressions
“You can’t make a second, first impression” As you walk into the conference room to make your inaugural speech, your coat pocket catches on the door handle causing you to drop the folder you are holding and your papers end up in the front row of the audience. Bending...
Choice
“Choose or not to choose, that is the choice” I don’t know about you, but I didn’t choose to be here; I was born in 1954 in London in the UK. It just happened to me, one day I wasn’t there and the next day I was, nobody asked for my opinion and I had absolutely no...
I’ve understood
The old saying, “a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing” is actually quite true. The Dunning Kruger effect has been around for centuries and we all fall into the trap; the onset of the current Codiv19 crisis was an excellent example. In March of last year,...
Accepting feedback
“Feedback is the breakfast of champions” Unfortunately, like a good breakfast, you need to be able to digest it, for it to be useful. Accepting feedback is often difficult, even when people try to be tactful and use a method like DESC or OFNR, many of us tend to...
Comfort Zone – to be in or not to be in
The concept of comfort zone is attributed to the psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John D. Dodson, who carried out experiments to show that a state of relative comfort generated a constant level of performance. Many posts about the comfort zone will tell you that...
In search of the leadership equation
If you asked a chemical engineer almost anywhere in the world to define Reynolds number, they would all probably say something like, “The Reynolds number is the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces within a fluid which is subjected to relative internal movement...
Mental Toughness and self-awareness
Mental Toughness is the attitude that gives us the confidence to take on challenges and stay in control of our commitments Feeling confident and in control of the situation and not giving up until the challenge is achieved can easily be seen as being self-centred,...
Real Leaders
What exactly is a real leader? When thinking of leaders, most people think of the rich and powerful; people like Obama, Putin, Macron, Branson, Musk ….. Martin Luther King and Ghandi come to mind for most people as examples of those who had limited power in terms of...
Be yourself leadership
“Be yourself – everyone else is already taken” Oscar Wilde Some people want to be charming, outgoing and sociable like Obama, some want to be direct, tough and imposing like Putin, some want to be imaginative, spontaneous and creative like Branson and others calm,...