
How Being A Leader Can Assist You In Making A Difference At Work
Great leaders don’t set out to be a leader. They set about making a difference. It seems like a strong statement (that’s because it...

Bo Parfet on Professional Resilience
How do companies like Apple continue to exceed their competitors’ expectations? If you ask CEO Tim Cook, he will tell you that it all...

One To One – Managing Quality Time With Individuals For Engagement and Success
Ever wonder what the lovechild of Ken Blanchard & Ernest Hemingway would look like? Here I review the book One To One by Robertson...

The Triumph Of Distributed Leadership In Lockdown Life
Leadership in the spotlight Since the start of this pandemic, leadership has been in the spotlight and this spotlight has largely been trained on...

Delegate Effectively and Remove The Monkey
Remove the monkey from your back Have you ever had a staff member come in with a problem and it seems to add to...

How Leaders Connect Emotionally
Leaders need to connect Over recent years, there has been a dramatic shift in the way in which leaders should operate within their business....

5 Essential Behaviours You Need To Maintain Your Integrity as a Leader
How do you maintain your integrity as a leader? This research from the Institute of Leadership and Management showed that while 83% of managers...

Leadership Myths And Truths
Despite the thousands of articles and books, leadership myths still circulate that are very stubborn. One of the leadership myths that bothers me is...

The Seven Habits and Characteristics of Ethical Leaders
Whether a local, national, or global business leader, the quickest way to lose the support of your colleagues is by practising bad ethics. Businesses...

5 Essential Questions To Improve Your Judgment
Laws and rules are not very good tools for judging whether a person, behaviour or situation is considered “wanted” or “unwanted”. Neither is a...

The Synchronized Leadership Model
synchronized leadership Twenty-first-century business requires agility. Agility from teams, from institutions, and from leaders. That agility comes from synchronized leadership. Despite the radical change...

What Being In The SAS Taught Me About Teamwork
What the SAS taught me about teamwork The unique experience of being in the SAS, resulted in many lessons, in particular, this is what...

Leadership Is An Art
Leadership is more than IQ I believe that leadership is about influencing people to achieve a common goal. To that end, I believe leadership...

What Being in the SAS Taught me About Leadership
What the SAS taught me about leadership Who dares wins… But not always!: The founder of the SAS, David Stirling, was convinced that small...

18 Traits That Make a Great Leader
Traits that make a great leader Leaders are inspiring, motivating, encouraging, and bettering other people. No two leaders will be the same, and that...

3 Mindset Shifts That Will Make You a Better Leader
Experience enables mindset shifts to take place There is no doubt the practice of mindfulness is one of the key skills you, as a...

What Being In The SAS Taught Me About Culture
What the SCS taught me about culture 2016 was the 75th anniversary of the Special Air Service. The ‘Regiment’ as it is known colloquially...

Three Requirements Of The Values Aligned Leader
Are you a values aligned leader? What values are you modelling in daily interactions with team members, peers, bosses, and customers? Who are you...

Are You A Strong Or A Hard Leader?
Strong or hard leader? Being strong and being hard is not the same thing. Something that is hard breaks easily when under pressure. Whereas...

3 Exercises To Improve Self Leadership
The challenge to improve self leadership It’s really hard to be a credible and authentic leader when you aren’t aware of yourself, your strengths...