Heroic Leadership is often part of quiet leadership, very powerful, because of how rooted, grounded and connected it is. In this article you can meet my hero (recently deceased) and contemplate who are your role models.
How do we make the best of both worlds? Hybrid working patterns have given us the opportunities to be part of our local communities more as well as going back into the offices with our colleagues. As we get into the first winter of hybrid working 2022/23, post pandemic working, we want to take with us the good stuff of our hybrid working patterns where we want to and when we want.
Scottish Renewables (SR) is the trade association that enables all of the companies and industry that are in the renewables industries, to collaborate, to form agreements and to respond to government policy.
This blog tells the story of this piece of capacity building because it has many lessons for other businesses.
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Hybrid Working is a game changer for culture change in the future of workplaces. This article explains a really useful tool for successful facilitation of deeply difficult issues involving culture change. It offers a way of ‘re-planning your strategy’ and ‘analysing how things go off piste’, A healthy learning culture can be built using this tool.
Read More‘Tactics and Tips for Chairing Board and Senior Management Leadership Meetings’. This blog reflects the wisdom, experiences and insights from Directors of many companies that we have been in conversation with through the Institute of Directors.
Read MoreThis article explains how to develop systems thinking and gain systemic insights. I take a human systems approach and enable you to look at the linkages between family upbringing, rejection, acceptance and financial principles that are embedded in value systems.
Read MoreThis article is for trustees, Directors, founders, Public Appointees or Ministers of government. Our call to action is simple. Your response to the climate crisis should be a standing item on every boards agenda. You could call the agenda item ‘Code Red for Humanity - our response’, so that you can take behavioural change one meeting at a time.
Read MoreIn this article I use my personal life experience to explore the governance practice of ‘follow the money’. As it is also true that some of our fundamental values-in-action are shaped by our personal life, very often in our family tribe.
Read MoreThis short article gives you practical mapping of the main essential skills that you need to try and make sure you recruit and keep active in your Board. It is part of my series of articles about de-mystifying being part of Boards, whether that is as Charity Trustees, Company Non-Executive and Executive Directors, or Public Appointees.
Read MoreA case study of the kind of ethical conversations that need to happen in the boardroom of any organisation to carry out due diligence, highlighting the processes and differentiation of salaried executives and unremunerated non-executive leading to work with diversity of thinking, declaring and addressing conflicts of interest, and preventing a U-turn or embarrassing the reputation of the organisation.
Read MoreThis blog reflects on my recent work, supporting ethical leadership structures in Scotland, which goes together with the need to pause, breath and consider sustainability in all our working lives as we move towards COP 26.
Read MoreDiversity at board level isn’t just a ‘nice to have’, it’s absolutely essential. Whether you’re part of a small community-focused charity or you work with a multinational business, diversity is a strength waiting to be harnessed. Here’s why…
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This is the third case study in a series on organisations who have built their hybrid format capacity with us we are showcasing how organisations can become more accessible, more able to serve their customers. All businesses regardless of sector or size can benefit from how hybrid format and hybrid working patterns enable quality delivery for all.