What happens when suddenly there is no leader?
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog When a leader suddenly resigns a leadership void is created. This creates a lot of uncertainty and concern, as well as a potential drain on knowledge and experience, which an organisation needs. In the leadership void, unless someone takes charge providing some much needed certainty and reassurance, dissidence and discontent can grow quickly and out of control. Leadership void plan A The...
Inspiration from the handshake teacher
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog Have you heard about the ”handshake teacher”? He’s the teacher who at the beginning of each school day greets every child in a special way, with a handshake/greeting pattern of their own choice. In all its simplicity this is brilliant LEADERSHIP. He makes his students feel special; seen and important. And everyone wants to know that they are seen, heard, understood and important. And he makes...
Today: Not a pale copy of yesterday
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog What are your plans for today? How can you make it different to yesterday? What work opportunities are there for you to do something different, to learn something new today? You could start doing one small thing differently, those small things add up. Go on make the change… Don’t let today become a pale copy of yesterday It’s easy to fall into habits – and there’s nothing wrong with that – we...
H2H: The ”Human to Human” business focus
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog B2B – Business to Business B2C – Business to Consumer These are common ways of describing if a company is providing products and services to another business or directly to the consumer, the end user. This is to some degree an important distinction as it impacts or even dictates how a business is organised and how it needs to operate. But ultimately all business is H2H – it’s Human to Human....
Be ready with smart questions not smart answers
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog When someone asks us a question or asks for our advice it is amazing how many times we really feel that we have to have the answer. As members of teams and people who lead teams we often think that we need to have the answer. Sometimes the opposite is true. The most effective and successful people will not always just give you the answer but instead ask you really...
