Lead Differently | Learning Behaviour & Change

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are in a new age of challenges for leaders, not least of which is the challenge of leadership itself. Leadership is a well-documented subject and any online search for what it is will return a plethora of admirable personal characteristics; visionary, empowering, influential, enthusiastic, decisive, and courageous to name but a few.

We believe it is all of those attributes and we’d sum it up as this – a leader is anyone whose actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more.

McKinsey say that leadership style is the best predictor of innovation and a thriving future -focussed business. We believe that such a business is not just about products, services, and profits, but more how current and future leaders decide to show-up as leaders within the organisation.

Great leaders will be remembered by those they inspired to do great work and by those who later become leaders themselves. We all want to be remembered for having done good work and having led the best we were able to. Here’s how we can help.

Leadership Coaching – executive coaching on a 1-2-1 level with current and future leaders. Nobody does this alone and having that safe space to be challenged and explore is invaluable.
Developing Presence – a vital component of success, the willingness and ability to show-up and be seen. Whether it is negotiating, managing clients, presenting, or having a positive impact in meetings, your presence cannot be understated.
Modular Leadership Programmes – these are always bespoke designed to address the present and future challenges of a business; like the picture says, you didn’t come this far only to get this far.
360º C-Suite Feedback – a deep dive programme with all members of the senior team to speak freely, courageously, and purposefully to ultimately lead the business more congruently.

Thoughts

The clever Principal said “You are going to be fifty anyway”

On a holiday to the Philippines, I was lucky enough to see something both clever and stunning. I went to the north of the country to visit the one thing I really wanted to see there, the rice terraces. In the mountainous north, rice fields are just as required to grow the crop needed to feed the people as they are in the flatter lowlands. But with less flat land available, the population optimised what they had and created terraced fields to grow the rice. This is what clever, and in this case stunning, looks like. It embodies the mantra

Purpose – Start where you are; use what you have; do what you can.

If you could only have one of the following, which would you choose? £500k; or greater awareness to a cause close to your heart; or to inspire others to greatness? This week I read one of those ‘great-news-stories’ that pop up every once in a while. An 11-year-old boy slept in a tent in his back garden for 365 days, the purpose was to raise money for a hospice after fundraising events were cancelled due to covid. After he had done the entire year under canvas, he had raised £500k; he had raised awareness of the cause; and he has become

Commitment to your decision, yet flexible in your approach

Can I do commitment? Sure, I can. During lockdown, with gyms closed, I decided to do ‘Couch to 5K’, the running app. I loved it, I was really exhilarated by the continuing challenge and I completed the nine-week course by running three lots of 5K. I feel so much fitter for having done it – this is the value I gained by committing to the app. I run an internal strategy for pretty much most things that I do. I call it ‘the reward before the work’ strategy. Take my run for example, it is a ‘there-and-back circuit’. As I

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Thanks to Hayley Gelder and Dan Stevens.