What do people say about you and your team?
What is your team’s reputation like? How are you perceived as a team? Reputation and how we are perceived matters. So as leaders and team members, we all need to raise our awareness of how we are perceived as a team. And then we need to take responsibility for the team’s reputation and brand, through our actions, behaviours and our ability to deliver. Some common reasons for teams not being well perceived include: Not being sure what...
Leadership lessons from…Game of Thrones
A couple of years ago we were interviewed by FlyBe magazine about leadership in the massively successful TV series Game of Thrones. It remains the most unexpected media request we've had so far:-). We were asked to share with their readers what leadership lessons we can take from watching the show (and its leaders). And we were specifically asked to comment on Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons. It ended up being an interesting...
The big leadership crisis
There’s a worrying trend that fewer and fewer of those now starting their careers are interested in becoming leaders. And we can sympathise with that. There can be a number of reasons why younger generations don't want to take on leadership roles. Some of the reasons we frequently hear about are: Being a leader is more stressfulBeing a leader can be lonely - 'we'd rather be part of a collaborative team'Being a leader means poor...
The Aug/Sep issue of IMPACT
Welcome to the August/September issue of our leadership magazine IMPACT. This time we focus on a crisis in leadership, team reputation, and 3 steps to mastering great relationships. Issue 19 You can read it here and download it here. And just in time for the release of Game of Throne prequel 'House of the Dragon' we share some leadership lessons from Game of Thrones. There's a story about leadership growth and how much we can learn...
How not to confuse
Mandy & Elisabet speaking at WeAreTheCity conference in London Words matter. A lot. And it's important to communicate in such a way that we can reach and connect with other people, right? Of course. We all want to be understood the way we intended. And yet, we can so easily misunderstand each other, as we all interpret words, sentences and even situations differently. We all have different lenses through which we observe and make...
