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What is a Visionary Leadership Style?

  Over the decades we have seen an evolution of differing management and leadership styles, all adapting to, and being driven by, societal and business needs, some being rationalised by the results they achieved (e.g. Total Quality Management), others being assessed by the emotional connection they built with their teams (e.g. High Emotional Intelligence). We’ve[…..]

How Managers Can Deal With A VUCA Environment

VUCA is an acronym which characterises the nature of difficult conditions and situations. Born in the 1990’s in the military world of the American military, it originally described the conditions the world faced after the cold war. Brexit, the Coronavirus pandemic, and the global economy are all VUCA conditions that we are all find ourselves[…..]

What Is The Difference Between Transactional and Transformational Leadership?

There are no rights and wrongs when it comes down to leadership styles and it’s a popular topic in the Leadership Development Programmes that we run. There’s a need for both styles in any organisation but transactional and transformational leadership are poles apart when it comes to what they are and how they are applied.[…..]

Your Purpose And Objectives – Don’t Confuse The Two

What’s the purpose of a football team, or any other team in a team sport? Did you immediately think, “to win the game” or “to beat the opposition”? OK, here’s another question…What’s the objective for the team? Did you repeat the same answers? Very often, we find there is a confusion between what we consider[…..]

Top 3 Reasons Why Your Employees Don’t Understand The Tasks They’re Given

In times of virtual working distributing tasks out to your people can be challenging. Miscommunication can happen easily. The result? Your people start on the task and they don’t fully understand it.   But you’re relying on your team to be productive and efficient when it comes to their tasks. A company relies on its employees to[…..]

8 Project Management Techniques For Project Leaders

Leading a project these days is a lot more complicated than ever before, as you have to deal with so many constraints, different people’s demands and a time-scale that is often shorter than you would like. If you’d like to benchmark your skills please take our Project Management Skills Assessment.

How To Gain More Ownership And Commitment Through Autonomy

One of the fundamental human needs we have at work is the ability to control our own approach to tasks. If we are simply ‘doing a job’, it is not surprising that our motivation will soon atrophy and die. What is it that makes us want to do this? Why is this aspect of autonomy[…..]