How to Choose Who You Send on a Leadership Program (So You Get ROI, Not Attendance)
Most leadership budgets are tighter than they used to be. That’s not a bad thing. It forces a decision that a lot of organisations avoid: St
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Culture Change
Culture doesn't change with a memo. These articles show how to shift behaviours one team at a time, using the SEE-SOLVE-SCALE framework.
New Year's Resolutions Are a Socially Acceptable Way to Lie to Yourself
Why goals fail 23x more often than behaviours (and what to do about it)
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The Village Fisherman, The Icebreaker, or The Amplifier: Which Type of Leader Are You?
Quick question: Which type of leader are you?
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Save Your Organisation from the Productivity Killer Hiding in Plain Sight
Your leaders think they're being productive. They're juggling five projects, responding to emails during meetings, and switching between tas
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Leadership Reset: Stop Drowning and Start Swimming
The most powerful leadership skill isn't working harder. It's knowing when and how to hit the reset button.
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Leadership Energy: The Invisible Force That Shapes Your Team's Performance
Your leadership impact isn't just about what you say or do. It's about the energy you bring into every room, every meeting, every decision.
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What the Grand Canyon Taught Me About Business Decisions
Standing in the depths of the Grand Canyon as the sun set, I faced a problem that would later define how I think about leadership decisions.
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The Performance Inversion: When Top Performers Become the Biggest Constraint
Controversial truth: your top performers are often your biggest constraint. Not because they are underperforming. Because they are overcompe
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It’s Time to Burn Your Management Playbook. Here’s What to Replace It With.
My most valuable leadership lesson wasn't learned in a classroom. It was learned with the bite of an enormous backpack digging into my shoul
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The Google Principle: Why Brilliant Management Teams Beat Brilliant Strategies
When you step up from managing individual contributors to managing managers, everything you thought you knew about leadership gets turned up
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Why Leadership Development Fails: The Belief-Behaviour Gap That Nobody Talks About
Most leadership programmes teach the wrong thing entirely
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When Leaders Optimize for Headlines, Not Results
Walk into any leadership team meeting and you'll witness it: leaders who've mastered the art of looking busy while accomplishing little.
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Two Leaders, Same Program, One Key Difference
Yesterday, I had two conversations that perfectly illustrate the power of choice in leadership transformation.
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Your Meeting About the Meeting is Killing Your Culture (And Your Time)
Let's talk about your calendar this week.
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Why Your Fear of Failure is More Dangerous Than Failure Itself
When was the last time you watched a child learn to walk?
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Stop Trying to Fix Everything (A Leadership Confession)
If solving problems were the path to the top, every CEO would be a former help desk manager.
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Are You Drowning in "Meeting Culture"?
Ever wondered why real decisions happen in the corridor after the meeting?
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The Neurodiversity Movement Led by Auticon: Shifting Perspectives and Breaking Barriers
Steve is a commercial director at Auticon UK, a unique multinational IT consultancy and social enterprise with a little bit of a difference
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The most important thing for you to do right now…
Life is a constant rush. We spend our time bustling from one deadline, project or task to the next and rarely take a moment to stop and just
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Align Your Passions With Your New Career
“I want to do something I am passionate about” – A simple thinking framework to help you brainstorm the answer to this challenge.
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Teaching old dogs new tricks
I was excited to attend the Jumpshift NZ Leadership Action Network event last week, focussed on Liberating Structures.
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Glaciers, Dumbledore and the wrong paint choice-3 essential tips
Glaciers, Dumbledore and the wrong paint choice — 3 essential leadership tips for the future.
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A simple method for stabilizing yourself during a disruption
One day you feel like you’re on top of the world, in the zone, smashing it! All of a sudden, you realize that you are spinning out of contro
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Are you swimming against the current? What I realized & changed.
One of the things that have been top of mind for me during this lockdown period has been how and where I use my energy.
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Why you need to work on trust!
In a 2002 GolinHarris survey of employees, 69% of respondents said “I just don’t know who to trust anymore.”
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R- How reliability builds trust
The easiest way to think about reliability in terms of building trust is to imagine your leadership like a vehicle that takes you from A to
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Looking at value in other ways
In ethics, value denotes the degree of importance of a thing or action, with the aim of determining what actions are best to do or what way
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Bow and wake effect
I had several people reach out to me on my latest IG posts on @jimmybleadership this week related to my Bow and Wake post so I thought I wou
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Why high performing leaders break the ice
I was on a call recently with a group of leadership thinkers; talking about the actively futurist leader.
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Three leadership insights about high performance
The road to high performance is paved with the golden bricks of experience and learning lessons.
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The 4 tensions affecting your business
Leadership is hard because it’s a game of tensions:
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What is "Ways of Working" (WoW) and why does it work?
When my team and I were putting together the Ways of Working (WoW) program we wanted to create something really impactful, cost-effective an
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The 5 connections your team needs from you
Each week as I sit down to write this newsletter, I always consider what will be the most valuable message I can send. Valuable by helping y
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Why teams waste $50Bn per year on development programs
During my military and corporate careers, I attended a leadership development course at least once a year.
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Why tough conversations don’t go to plan
In the Ways of Working program, one of the modules we talk about is Tough Conversations.
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Avoid this common leadership development mistake
As we move to an age of digitized learning, it has become apparent that a lot of companies are going to focus on providers who offer app-bas
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Creating and sharing your leadership brand – it's a game-changer
Do you have a leadership brand? Do you know what one is?
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When you stop delivering, magical things can happen
The house buyer's change of financial situation meant they couldn’t go through with the deal to purchase our home – 6 days from closing.
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Do you have trust issues?
Imagine being in the Board Room, talking about the commercial upside of being a leader who builds trust.
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Beat burnout by being more abundant
Firstly, thank you to those of you who reached out after reading last week’s rant alert post – it seemed to strike a chord and I’m really ha
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The connection that really keeps your team engaged
Last week we started discussing the idea of connection – in particular the idea of connecting new starters to the business, their peers, and
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Are you an exploited employee or an employee exploiter?
This blog was one I thought long and hard about how to write. Then I thought, if it feels uncomfortable for me
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Finding your purpose, and why AI can't steal that from you
This week I posted a poll on a number of social platforms asking a straightforward question. In light of AI creators, should I keep blogging
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How I found my Purpose
Have you ever stopped to think about the concept of doing something "on purpose"? Many of us might associate this phrase with simply being i
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Why getting clear on role purpose boosts productivity 20%
In our previous blog posts, we explored the significance of having a personal purpose and how to find it. Now, we're moving to the next leve
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Embracing Flexibility: Unlocking the Path to Innovation and High Performance
Are you ready to redefine leadership and create a work environment that fosters growth, innovation, and exceptional performance?
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Uncovering the Connection between Parenting, Leadership, and Talent Management
In the realm of leadership, fascinating connections can be found in unexpected places. One such intriguing overlap exists between parental l
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Unleashing Unconventional Resilience: Thriving Beyond the Ordinary
In today's ever-evolving world, resilience is the secret ingredient that empowers us to navigate challenges and truly thrive in the face of
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Imposter Syndrome: How It's Affecting Your Business and What You Can Do About It
Imposter Syndrome is a pervasive phenomenon that affects individuals across various fields. It can have a significant impact on business per
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