2020 – a special year for 2020 Vision Leader
Your impact is your legacyMandy Flint & Elisabet Vinberg Hearn Have we ever told you why this website is called 2020 Vision Leader? If not, here it is: In the mid-2010s, after having had two leadership book published (The Team Formula: A Leadership Tale of a Team who found their Way and Leading Teams: 10 Challenges 10 Solutions), we recognised that we needed a shared platform which could represent our books as well as us, as...
Leadership you can trust
From WeAreTheCity Future Leaders Blog There’s a lot of talk about trust – all around the world; in politics in particular, but also in business and society as a whole. We would argue that trust is quite a straightforward thing – without it we have nothing. We may be able to manage without trust for a while, but over time lack of trust erodes engagement and joy at work. “No legacy is so rich as honesty” William Shakespeare Leaders that...
The role of a leader
So much has been said said about leadership over the years, so much research is available. You may for example have heard about the concepts of Authentic Leadership, Charismatic Leadership, Situational Leadership, Ethical Leadership, Emotional Intelligence in Leaders and Level 5 Leadership…the list goes on. They are all good and relevant concepts in their own right – and concepts have come and gone based on business challenges and a...
Five ways to reboot your team
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog Let’s look at how employee engagement – or lack of it – can impact your team and your business. Leaders and teams need to use their ‘engagement radar’ Everyone owns their own engagement. It’s not the manager’s sole responsibility to engage people, but leaders and managers still need to have their ‘engagement radar’ on, to assess how engaged team members are at any time. The first...
8 tips for greater impact in meetings
From WeAreTheyCity’s Future Leader’s Blog Like a lot of people, you probably spend a lot of time in meetings (face to face or virtual), right? Meetings can be great, but they can also be a frustrating experience; time-consuming and not productive enough. We’ve probably all experienced that. Ultimately, we can’t control what others do, we only have full control of our own contribution to those meetings. So, with that in...
Inspire hope
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s blog Hope is a great fuel of human drive and determination. As a leader, to inspire hope in others, and of course yourself, is one of your most important tasks. The future may seem unclear or uncertain at times – that’s only to be expected with the constant change that is part of reality at work. What you can do as a leader is to continuously look for the opportunities and possibilities of the...
