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 MoreOrganisations and leaders need to be recognising and framing the post crisis period. A practical way of doing this is using Bridges transition theory. This article puts remobilisation stages and reminds us of the 4 P’s which support successful transitions.
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 MoreSimplifying work and life is an essential skill, especially as we move through these times of change. This blog describes why and gives examples of businesses I have helped found, that show multiple practical insights about these values-in-action. Traits of ethical leadership include the ability to Simplify and being straightforward.
Read MoreMaking services more accessible to all has long been a subject of study in the world of health and public service delivery. Levels of use can affect funding for many, making access a fundamental issue to be addressed.
Read MoreAs we come through the post-crisis phase after the pandemic, I am working with organisations and different professions who are exhibiting signs of burn out, so in this blog I reflect on ‘Perfection’ and suggest ways of practicing around it.
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 MoreThis speaks to me and for me. It is this years Quaker British Yearly Meetings letter, which calls forth my best self. It represents why I am a Quaker in Business and what that is about for me as a Quaker who consults to businesses.
Read MoreHaving spent 15 years delivering courses on partnership development and stakeholder influencing, I think there’s another level of partnership missing from many models out there. Which leads me to the psychodynamics of partnership working.
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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.