After 15 years of helping companies lead people through change you’ll be unsurprised to know that we have created an approach to help organisations engage and lead people through a change, so that the business benefits are achieved. Today I want to focus on one action that we insist on implementing when meeting with potential clients who ask us to help them take people through change. It’s low tech and not revolutionary, but I […]
A question we get asked a lot is about how to lead and engage remote workers. This is a key challenge within the construction industry with employees out on sites. Working with our clients Kier Group & Balfour Beatty we have learnt a huge amount about these topics over the last few years. What is really […]
‘Less is more’ – the saying attributed to architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is usually taken to mean that simplicity, clarity and focus enable effective and productive design. He was talking about buildings, but increasingly we are seeing a similar approach to leadership development. Up until quite recently, clients were often focused on quantity and intensity when we were designing programmes – […]
“But we’ve told them a thousand times….” or words to that effect. We hear this a lot from exasperated executive teams when we give them Inpulse results saying that people don’t know the organisation’s strategy. Often, they have done that, but in ways which fail to register with people, inspire them and help them play […]
It’s crucial that leaders are constantly thinking about how to reengage and refocus their employees. The first task is to refocus people, remind them where the organisation is headed, recap on strategic messages and review successes so far. This can take place at several levels – the CEO in some organisations sends out a video message and/or stages a series […]
“One part Churchill, two parts Princess Diana” was how one of our clients recently described what was demanded of her as a successful leader in a modern day organization. This was certainly an intriguing mental image, but one which made sense as she went on to describe her experiences. What she said also reflected what […]
‘So, what advice would you give Donald Trump, then?’ a client recently asked in a leadership workshop. We’d been talking about what we can learn from world leaders past and present. The news that week was that the President’s approval rating had reached its lowest ever level at 35%, so it was a topical question, […]
