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Stuck in the Middle
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...
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Trust and Psychological Safety in Today’s World
Your turn, you go ahead, no you, please you go…. via GIPHYConversational 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 programming...
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5 Top Tips for Working From Home
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,...
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International Woman’s Day
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...
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Pancakes and Prayers!
These last days we may have eaten pancakes (in the UK), doughnuts (Krapfen in Germany), or cream buns (fastelavnsbollar in Denmark, semlor in Sweden) and not given it much thought. These sweet treats are linked to the Christian calendar, this Wednesday being Ash...
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20/20 Connection
We asked HR professionals from a range of companies about team performance. Loud and clear, the answer to the question “What factors limit effective team performance?” was clarity, or more specifically the lack of it. Aspects involving clarity polled 35% with the...
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So Many Leaders But When Is It Leadership?
Global Business Leaders is a company specialising in leadership, so it’s a fair question to ask what we consider leadership to be? There are thousands of books written on the subject, including our own, and probably a fair few more to come off the presses...
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The Value of Values
Purpose and Values are strongly interlinked. The definition of “values” could be summarised as: what is important to us, what we value. They are a shorthand method for describing our needs and our inner motivations. Our values are revealed in what we believe and in...
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Leadership lessons from an NHS Development Champion
The challenges faced by the NHS are many and well documented. Limited resources with an increasing and insatiable call on those resources. Someone winning recognition for bringing solutions to this area is bound to be noticed (as indeed Donal Collins was when invited...
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