by Keith Coats | Aug 6, 2019 | Archive, Leadership, Organisational Development, Tuesday Tips
How our team use Story Cards to contribute to deeper and richer conversations within teams and organisations. The Problem: My team just don’t seem to engage in a manner and to a level that I would like and would expect. Our conversations lack the ‘creative spark’ that...
by Jude Foulston | Jul 19, 2019 | Archive, Leadership
Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott Needing to prepare for a series of workshops TomorrowToday is delivering for Boeing in August, this book is proving to be helpful. One of the workshops is on executive communication and Scott’s book is providing some useful...
by Jude Foulston | Jul 16, 2019 | Archive, Leadership, Organisational Development, Tuesday Tips
In a talent scarce and innovation critical world companies inspired by the likes of Google are stretching far and wide to out-perk one another in an attempt to attract and retain the best talent. Whilst the Michelin-Star chefs and nap pods are great, creating an...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jul 12, 2019 | Archive, Leadership, Organisational Development
Studies reveal that fewer than 20% of leaders have a strong sense of their own and team’s purpose. Even fewer can distil their purpose into an outcome-focused, action-oriented statement. Some leaders are able to clearly articulate their organization’s mission: Think...
by Keith Coats | Jul 10, 2019 | Archive, Leadership
A book that our colleague Keith Coats has recently read (and recommends) is Prisoners of Geography: Ten maps that tell you everything you need to know about global politics by Tim Marshall. The title instantly attracted his attention and as one of the maps concerns...
by Keith Coats | May 31, 2019 | Leadership
Every now and then life gives us opportunity to say, “thank goodness that wasn’t me!” – understanding that but for some quirk of fate, it could so easily have been ‘me’. What is regarded as the most epic of all shoelace tumbles happened to one Nick Flynn in...