Career Acceleration, Culture, Inclusion, Leadership, Purpose
With the labour market in free-fall and organisations out-paying each other by ridiculous amounts, Elena decided to take a punt on finding an organisation and a boss with whom she felt a better sense of fit. It wasn’t that her current job was unfulfilling; she...
Career Acceleration, Increasing effectiveness, Leadership
Recently there was some interesting research published from McKinsey based on workers in Germany, India, US and UK which points to the value of moving organisations, and moving relatively often if you want to gain the most in earnings. The authors claim that such...
Career Acceleration, Coaching, Increasing effectiveness, Leadership, Motivation, Performance
A key reason for increasing how much you delegate is that often too many low risk decisions are made at senior levels and that means that you lose focus on strategy and oversight. Many of the leadership challenges profiled in this book highlight this problem....
Career Acceleration, Coaching, Culture, Increasing effectiveness, Leadership, Motivation, Purpose
What does it take to love your work? A strong focus on structure. Structure your work so that you do what you love. The Figure below highlights the sequence of organising, prioritising and digitising work. Organise your work to maximise your best skills and...
Career Acceleration, Coaching, Ideal Learning State, Increasing effectiveness, Leadership, Motivation
Coaching is widespread, and has become a part of the mainstream development offer of many organisations. With coaching, a leader doesn’t have to journey through the process of change alone. At the same time, they are able to voice their strongest desires for...
Career Acceleration, Culture, Gender diversity, Leadership, Unconscious bias
The BBC increased its representation of women in front of the camera by 74% between 2017 and 2019.It began with the nightly ‘Outside Source’ program anchored by Ros Atkins, which went from 39% on-air female contributors to 50% in four months.In April 2019 there were...