Working from home can be brilliant, but when it’s unexpected, unplanned and protracted, keeping your motivation levels high can be challenging. Combined with an unfamiliar work environment, uncertainty and things vying for your attention it’s easy to get distracted and to find yourself at the end of your working day...

Leadership and decision making go hand in hand, and as technology changes how we live and work and the rate of change accelerates, the nature of those decisions and how to lead can appear more complex and challenging. However, when you ask employees what they want from their leaders the...

As digitisation and what the World Economic Forum calls the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ changes how and where we work, the need to have a ‘people first’ mindset when executing change is more important than ever. Whilst leaders often highlight the importance of getting the people side of an organisational change...

When organisations analyse their culture and determine their values ‘gratitude’ isn’t a trait that is likely to appear, and yet it is increasingly evidenced as being critical for personal well-being and organisational success. In a working world that’s constantly changing and throwing up obstacles and challenges, the ability for leaders...

Every board has a unique cultural style and operating rhythm which means that to be effective new board members need to understand how the new environment works and adjust their approach to ensure their opinions are heard. Successful directors know how to influence. They know how to get things done...

As organisations grapple with more complex decisions and an ever increasing pace of change building a workforce equipped with the skills and experience to thrive in this environment is critical. Finding this depth and breadth of talent requires leader to build a diverse workforce, which covers full spectrum diversity including,...

Developing the next generation of leaders was listed as the top issue for CEOs in DDI’s CEO Challenges: Global Leadership Forecast for 2018 report. Leaders are increasingly being asked to grapple with complex problems for which there is no one right answer.  They are needing to balance internal and external...

The rules of work have changed and to stay in the game you need to know how to adapt to them and, at times, break them. In the past, the rules of the game were fixed. They were set by big organisations and bureaucracies. Now there is a democratisation of...

It isn’t easy being a leader in a world undergoing change that is so rapid and vast that the World Economic Forum titled it the fourth industrial revolution. At the same time, leadership tenure is shrinking.  Research from PWC released this year found that CEO turnover was at 16.6% - up...

The capability of leaders to make good decisions during times of change is critical. Decisions are taken to make progress.  So if a leader’s decision making is ineffective, the organisation will either stall, make limited progress or head in the wrong direction. A 2013 Towers Watson study reinforced what other...