Future Leaders Blog: There’s no one like you!
Right? You have your own unique set of strengths and capabilities, wouldn’t you agree? Yet most people don’t focus enough on them. They focus on what they are bad or not so good at and try to improve in those areas. And that may be important too – if they are limiting weaknesses they definitely need to be overcome. But overall, strength focus is more important. It’s key for leaders – to focus on their own strengths AND...
Careers Club at Coca-Cola | Futureproof your leadership
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog We had the great honour and pleasure of talking at the WATC Careers Club earlier this week – on the subject of futureproofing your leadership. We were at the fabulous Coca-Cola offices in central London – great place for it! The room was full of engaged, formal and informal leaders at diffe rent stages of their career. It was great to watch and hear their (or your – as we do hope that some of...
Are you a master of patterns?
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog Have you ever heard of Wayne Gretzy? He’s a legendary Canadian ice-hockey player – some say he’s the best player ever. In one of his many, many interviews, he was asked what made him such a good player, what made him more successful than others. His response was that so many players go to where the puck is, while he went where the puck was about to go. He had the ability to read the other...
Have an attitude!
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog Attitude is everything. In life, at work, in leadership. Attitude, outlook, perspective, approach – whatever we call it – it impacts or changes everything. Imagine that something unexpected or unwanted happens. What if you lost your job, or you ‘failed’ at something, or you didn’t meet your goal? Well, we can’t control things that happen. What we can control though is our attitude – we can...
Are you having fun?
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog “A day without laughter is a day wasted.” Charlie Chaplin Work is supposed to be fun. How much time do you think you spend at work? It’s a lot of time, right? So how about making the time you spend at work more fun. Maybe not laugh-out-loud fun all the time, but whenever possible it should definitely be fun. There is after all no law against it. There should be laughter –...
Leaders with high EQ
From WeAreTheCity’s Future Leader’s Blog No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. – Theodore Roosevelt What is EQ? And what does it mean to have Emotional Intelligence? You could say that EQ is the ability to understand and manage yourself (thoughts, feelings, reactions etc) so that you can communicate with and relate to others – which also includes the ability to “get people”, to see and value other...
