How I Learned to Balance Strategic Objectives with Leading People
Leadership isn’t about doing everything—it’s about creating an environment where everyone can succeed. And at the heart of this is alignment with strategic objectives - suring leaders and teams are focused on the right KPIS and metrics.
Why Leaders are the Key to a Positive Culture and Engaged Teams
Many years ago, I found myself in a business where the culture of the team I was working with was slowly deteriorating. We were delivering our projects and clients were satisfied, but the energy and motivation were low and getting lower.
That’s when it hit me that if you don’t intentionally shape your culture, it will form by accident—and often not in the way you want.
As leaders, we set the tone for everything in our organizations. Culture, engagement, feedback, and conflict resolution don’t just happen—they need to be nurtured and intentionally built...
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Help Your Team Manage Stress and Build Resilience: 10 Tips for Leaders
Stress is inevitable, the world is full of change and uncertainty, and it’s a challenge we all face. As leaders your people’s wellbeing and helping them to manage stress and build resilience, or inner strength, is no longer a tick box exercise, it’s essential.
Read our guide for leaders to support your people and create healthier individuals and also to a stronger, more resilient team.
Empathy in Leadership: A Guide to Emotional Intelligence
In today’s fast-paced, ever-evolving workplace, leaders are expected to do more than just technical experts, they are required to understand, inspire, and connect with their teams on a human level. This is why emotional intelligence (EQ) and empathy are essential skills. Empathy fosters trust, collaboration, and resilience, and enabling leaders to navigate the complexities of human behaviour.
Building Confidence in Leadership: A Guide to Success
Confidence isn’t an innate trait—it’s built through experience, action, and persistence. Whether you’re overcoming imposter syndrome, facing new challenges, or navigating uncertainty, these strategies will help you build and sustain the confidence needed to lead effectively.
How to: Reflective Goal Setting for a Succesful 2024
The end of the year and the festive break is a natural time to pause and reflect on the past year and consider the year ahead, both for you as an individual and for your business and team. This article explores the benefits of reflective goal setting for both our personal and business success and growth. Read on to find some useful prompts to reflect, grow self-awareness, and clarify your hopes, ambitions and plans for the year ahead.
How to Cope with Stress
Christmas is inevitably one of the busiest and most stressful periods for people at work and at home. We have tasks to complete tasks, objectives to achieve or just a sense that we need to get things done before the end of the year.
How do you manage stress and build resilience for you and your team? Here are my tips.
10 Ways to build a happy, engaged and motivated team
Employee Engagement matters because happy staff equal happy customers. It drives higher productivity and ultimately a more successful business. It boosts retention and reduces stress. Paying someone a competitive salary is not enough to ensure that they are engaged, loyal and committed to their job. So what can you do to build an engaged team?
Lead with Resilience
Today we’re all under so much pressure at work and at home. Teams are short-staffed and having to work harder and longer, there’s only so long we can keep this up.
As a leader, it’s your role to create an environment that works for you and your team and you need to have an awareness of your team’s wellness.