leadership Archives - Strategic Leadership

12 Nov

Rebuilding Relationships Across Teams in a Hybrid Workplace

In Leadership, Team

The coming year of inventing our way toward whatever our workplaces will look like offers a marvellous opportunity to refresh and reinvent cross-functional relationships. Working to rebuild these bonds is especially important because most people won’t be returning to work as the same people they were before the pandemic;...

17 May

The urgent need for sophisticated leadership

In Leadership

The urgent need for sophisticated leadership - The pandemic has highlighted a series of paradoxes inherent to the work of leaders. What comes next will depend on how well they face up to them.

19 Oct

How to Bring Unity and Calm to Your Team

In Leadership, Team

Bring Unity and Calm to Your Team - Life got messy in 2020. It’s not just the virus. It’s the way the virus has changed everything we once took for granted—from the way we work to the way we get to work. Or don’t get to work, as the case may be. Although forecasts and timelines...

05 Oct

Going Digital with Leadership Development Programmes

In Leadership Development, Training

Going Digital with Leadership Development Programmes - Leadership development programmes have a time-honoured format and style that can be hard to replicate online but in the new world of work we are forced to try. This is an opportunity to be innovative whilst remaining effective. Here are some top...

07 Sep

Is coronavirus the ultimate test in ethical leadership for HR?

In Leadership

Is coronavirus the ultimate test in ethical leadership for HR? Whether it’s furlough or free healthcare, companies’ actions during the coronavirus have come under greater scrutiny than ever. Will the organisations that followed a moral compass emerge the strongest? Jo Faragher investigates.

16 Mar

Crisis Management: The Overlooked Leadership Skill

In Leadership, VUCA

Crisis Management: The Overlooked Leadership Skill | Here are five ways to rise up to the challenge of leading the troops while things are falling apart. No one thinks much about a certain leadership quality — until the you-know-what hits the fan. The quality I’m referring to is crisis management. Thankfully,...

07 Oct

Mindset – The psychological challenge of business growth

In Business

Mindset - The psychological challenge of business growth - When a business changes faster than employees’ thinking there is a problem! Individuals’ assumptions, priorities and expectations become obsolete - mindset becomes a big obstacle to change and growth. Employees continue do a great job, but in some respects its yesterday’s...

23 Sep

Jack Ma’s Leadership Approach

In Chris Atkinson, Leadership

Jack Ma's Leadership Approach by Chris Atkinson - At his retirement party, Jack Ma stepped onstage to celebrate Alibaba’s 20th anniversary looking every inch the rock star complete with a leather jacket, shades, guitar, and jewellery. He sang and spoke to an emotional crowd in Hangzhou, China. It's fair to...

16 Sep

Rest – Investing Time to Become a Better Leader

In Leadership

Recently, one of the team members at the John Maxwell Company shared an interesting struggle in his life: he’s forgotten how to rest. Some of the team was gathered for lunch and he volunteered his thoughts as everyone was talking.

22 Jul

Top Rated CEO of 2019 Shares a Simple Formula for Leadership Success

In Leadership

Everybody loves a good top 100 list. It could be the best cities to live in, the top restaurants, or in this case, the highest rated CEOs in America. I love Glassdoor's annual list of the Top CEOs because it's based on how employees of major corporations feel about their culture...