“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,...
I ran my first team building in 1987 and I have lost count of how many I have run since – for project teams, change teams, sales teams, management teams……. Before we try to understand what teambuilding is and what is meant by it, here are a few lines on the...
Collections of individuals masquerading as teams within organisations has never been uncommon; so, when is a team not a team? The answer is actually more often than not; many of the project teams, the management teams, the design teams, the production teams and the...
I’ve been helping people to develop their leadership capacity for almost 35 years now; I’ve coached, trained and facilitated around 3500 days of courses, programmes, workshops, seminars and off-sites throughout organisations – apprentices, supervisors, high...
Leadership is made up from three syllables and these syllables can help us to understand what leadership is all about. The first syllable is from the verb, “to lead” The origins of the word lead lie in Old English, Old Saxon and Old German with words such as “laedan”,...
