Many leaders treat major transitions—like layoffs, mergers, or leadership departures—as purely operational hurdles to be solved with a new strategy or a restructuring plan. However, there is a credible and empirically validated phenomenon known as organisational grieving. It describes the complex emotional, cognitive, and physiological processes employees undergo in response to workplace loss or the […]
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For over 50 years, executive coaches and business leaders have sworn by a brilliantly simple equation introduced by Timothy Gallwey in 1974: P = p – i (Performance = Potential – Interference). The premise of his famous “Inner Game” theory was transformative for its time: if we can just quiet our self-doubt, silence our harsh
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Does it matter and what does it mean I should do? Visible leadership is a central pillar of organisational success. In today’s hyper-connected and technology-driven world, there is a growing imperative for leaders to be visibly present, actively engaging with a wide array of stakeholders, including employees, customers, shareholders, and the broader public. This evolution
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Having listened in on several conference calls over the last couple of weeks with leaders wrestling with the challenge of keeping their business alive and their employees engaged I’ve learned a lot. I’ve learned of the pragmatic, practical things that really seem to be making a difference to employees. Communicate, communicate, communicate I cannot emphasise
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Culture, in essence, is ‘the way we do things around here’. It doesn’t matter what you say you want it to be, it’s what you do that paints the true picture. Scruffy staff canteens with notice boards plastered in “Don’t do this” or “Don’t do that” notices tell of a different culture than “people are
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Whichever way you voted, and whichever side of the argument you come down on, Brexit is being blamed for a lot. Multiple sources attribute the slow down of the housing market to uncertainty over Brexit. The slump in new car sales is also attributed in part to Brexit. The car market has also been affected
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Being resilient means being able to deal with an event that otherwise could have been traumatic. Coping, is resilience over time. Resilience is also about our ability to learn from these experiences such that what was once threatening is no longer so. Just as the novice kayaker is intimidated by white water, as they learn
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Becoming more resilient is about achieving higher levels of performance through managing the pressure of work better. Managing resilience is a positive, constructive aspect of performance. Resilience is the way you choose to respond to something that could be potentially traumatic and ensuring it is not. Resilience arises from self awareness, the right mindset and
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First published in The Huffington Post 3 November 2015 It was a leading fashion house that stunned me with their thinking. There brief was simple, “We lead fashion. We don’t follow it. This is our culture. We don’t want best practice in leadership development – we want leading practice.” It turned my own thinking on its head.
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First published in The Huffington Post on 20 May 2015 Lessons from failure and success Supported by a fantastic team, my riding partner Charlie Mitchell and I broke the 49 year old record for cycling non-stop from Land’s End to John O’Groats on a tandem, shaving over 5 hours off the record to complete the 842 miles
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