Your impact: Self-PR or not self-PR?
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog Continuing on from last week’s blog on how to create impact for the future through your Leadership Brand, let’s turn to a question that leaders often pose to us: Is it really OK to “promote” myself? I don’t feel comfortable blowing my own trumpet…. It’s all about the value you bring to others. The quick answer is yes. But the trick is of course in how you do it. As mentioned last week,...
Feedforward: Do you give enough?
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog In a recent study by Gallup, only 23 per cent of employees say that they get enough feedback. This is a sad figure, but not a surprising one. There’s not enough feedback in the workplace, this is a known fact. And yet it is the fuel that can energise performance big time. “Feedback is the breakfast of champions” Ken Blanchard Do you give enough feedback? According to another study by...
A reputation, we all have one?
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation and only one bad one to lose it – Benjamin Franklin Individuals, teams and organisations all have reputations. And reputation is created over time, through words, actions and behaviours. But it’s not set in stone – a reputation can quickly be tarnished and even ruined. A reputation should not be taken for granted. In fact, it should be...
How loud is your body language?
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog Do you think a lot about what to say? Do you carefully choose your words to craft a great question or comment? Do you think about the message you want to put across to someone else? We would guess that the answer is yes to most if not all of those questions. But what about your body language? Do you think about that as much? Ultimately your physiology; your body language,...
Time is not refundable so use it with intention
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog “Where did that time go, I can’t believe the first quarter has gone already, can you?” “I know I saw you in January and it is already April, how did we get to Easter so fast!” “Is it really 2017 it seems like yesterday when I was saying welcome to 2015” These phrases sound familiar to you? Everyone we talk to says things like this about time. Everyone is so busy. With the busy bug people...
