As leaders and people managers, we have to be excellent at finding, hiring, developing and retaining top talent. Simultaneously, we have to have great strategic thinking, organizational design, manage operational issuesm perceptions and complex matrices of relationships. It’s an often thankless, unenviable task that makes us question why we tried so hard to get there […]
‘Action Learning’ for Leadership Development – Is this still a viable learning option? “There is no learning without action and no action without learning” (Reg Revins 1998). L = P + Q Learning = Programmed (knowledge) + Questions (insight). Many may have heard of ‘Action Learning’ being talked about within the training fraternity, but how […]
Why measure leadership development? Leadership development maturity is characterized by an organizational mindset of employees as corporate assets, with clearly defined future focused development processes and competencies. A consistent level of involvement of business leaders to embrace the initiative and support in taking into account the organization’s leadership needs, makes it an integrated leadership development […]
Recently I was invited as a speaker to the NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Company) forum held in Dubai for some of their managers. The presentation covered “How to motivate teams to achieve company goals.” During the presentation, as we were discussing the skills required for a manager to achieve these goals, the question of Leadership […]
Why leadership development… Improving leadership development programs, growing talent internally and enhancing effectiveness of the senior management team are some of the top challenges on the minds of CEO’s, alongside business growth. We need great leaders to shape and sustain our organizations and to mould our future leaders. We need leaders leading with a winning […]
The term leadership generally evokes thoughts of both famous and infamous personalities from world history. Whether pioneers of nations, great religious ambassadors, the peace-makers or founding fathers of modern industry; all hold a number of common traits. Having the ability to inspire followers, to make timely and decisive decisions and always be seen to “do […]
As a business owner who makes a living partly from training leaders, I give myself full permission to write this article and accept any consequences as a result of businesses changing the way they look at developing their leaders! A colossal, money-making area of training is leadership. If I had one Dirham for every time […]
Are leaders born or made? This common trait theory of leadership has been debated for decades. Current scholars seem to accept that while some future leaders may be born with relevant leadership traits, this may not be a critical component to guarantee future effective leadership. Arguments are frequently made that through extensive leadership training programs, […]
Having delivered a number of Google’s #IamRemarkable workshops, where all but one of the participants were female, I have seen first-hand that many women still find it challenging to talk openly about their achievements. But why do so many of us struggle with this? And why don’t we realise that there is direct link between […]
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. -Lao Tzu A few years ago, I had the chance to coach the CFO of an international organization in India during a project that covered many countries. The main theme we worked on was the relationship with his team […]
