by Anne Stenbom | Mar 30, 2021 | Culture and values, Leadership growth, 21st century leadership
Anne was interviewed by Lee Robertson of the Association of Executive Coaching for their March 2021 newsletter about her personal journey as a coach. The opportunity to serve drives me to continue my professional journey becoming a coach Your background includes...
by Helen Battersby | Feb 19, 2021 | Culture and values, Sustainability, Wellbeing, 21st century leadership
Does it have to take a pandemic to bring to light the blindingly obvious? stop moaning or else Last week, a national British newspaper lead with the story of the UK chairman of one of the Big Four telling his staff to stop moaning about the pandemic or playing the...
by Anne Stenbom | Jan 27, 2021 | Culture and values, 21st century leadership, Mindset growth
We thought we were over the worst and yet we are here again in lockdown around the world, more restrictive than ever before. How are you coping? What does it take to survive and even thrive? Two Key traits To be best prepared to survive this pandemic, it’s good to...
by Helen Battersby | Oct 28, 2020 | Culture and values, Sustainability, 21st century leadership, Collaboration
The issue of sustainability is the most pressing challenge of our times. If there is no sustainability then all the effort, all the resources we put in today is futile. Yet in businesses, time and time again, short-termism prevails. How we all risk extinction In his...
by Helen Battersby | Sep 24, 2020 | Leadership growth, Outstanding teams, 21st century leadership, Collaboration
What’s behind decisiveness as a leadership quality? You’ve probably come across that saying : “If your religion requires that you hate someone then you need a new religion.” The world you experience and perpetuate is a reflection of your worldview. If you...
by Anne Stenbom | Aug 10, 2020 | Culture and values, Leadership growth, 21st century leadership, Collaboration, Mindset growth
To mark the start of the New Year, we sent greetings to clients with a packet of bee-friendly wildflower seeds as a small token of our gratitude. Some weeks later I found one packet of seeds that hadn’t been sent and decided to plant these myself. It was a long wait...
by Helen Battersby | Jun 16, 2020 | Culture and values, Leadership growth, 21st century leadership, Collaboration, Mindset growth
It’s June 2020. I mark the date as the world is in a particular state of flux: the prevalence of the Covid-19 virus is still determining what is safe and not safe to do and this judgement varies across the world. As I write today from the UK, I hear on the radio of...
by Anne Stenbom | May 27, 2020 | Culture and values, Leadership growth, 21st century leadership, Collaboration, Mindset growth
Your turn, you go ahead, no you, please you go…. via GIPHY Conversational turn-taking is a dance and the rules around it are hard-wired As children we learn how to be polite, how to communicate respectfully, when to speak and stay silent. Our early cultural...
by Anne Stenbom | Apr 7, 2020 | Outstanding teams, 21st century leadership, Collaboration, Mindset growth
We are living in unprecedented times. Millions of people across the world are in lockdown, experiencing the removal of our usual freedoms that we take for granted, in particular the ability to move about and spend time where and with whom we choose. For most of us,...
by Helen Battersby | Mar 6, 2020 | Culture and values, 21st century leadership
When MD for a company in a then male-dominated industry I was interviewed in the industry magazine, along with a handful of women, and we were asked the incisive question of what it was like to be a woman! Never having been anything else, I found this quite a...
