Each year Coaches from Praesta member organisations meet to discuss the Coaching environment and review the latest trends identified from working across multiple sectors in the Commercial, Public Sector, and Not for Profit organisations.
Trust: a key ingredient for the successful leadership of virtual teams.
There is more than enough in the media currently, about vaccines, their respective qualities, efficacy and delivery mechanisms to occupy many fine minds and learned libraries. This comment focuses on a different aspect but is well illustrated by the successes and challenges of the Oxford Coronavirus vaccine.
The months ahead are going to be challenging. Now is the time for civil service leaders and their teams to discuss how they keep their resilience, say Hilary Douglas and Peter Shaw.
No longer can we say that lockdowns are unprecedented. Whilst these events may be beyond the experience of many of us (though pandemics are not uncommon), the passage of time may well reveal this to be a discontinuity rather than a change to a complete new normal.
What can leaders do for themselves and their teams to help overcome feelings of fatigue as we face a pandemic winter? One idea is to make time to re-connect with one another by doing a ‘resilience check’.
If you want a lesson on effective and ineffective leadership, then look no further than how some nations leaders have tackled the pandemic…
I have recently been working with a leadership team who have had to manage themselves through a torrid Covid experience. All businesses have had to confront difficulty, even if their income streams have continued to flow. However, this group have experienced Covid related death in service and total income evaporation whilst having to maintain their extensive services to the public.
As restrictions lift locally and around the world, how do we move forwards and create new ways of operating? Although restrictions are being lifted, the behaviours that we have adopted over the last few months have become habits that may slow us down as we aim to shape our future and move forwards.
On my early morning cycle before work, which is now part of my daily routine, I cycle through Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park and often notice new things as I take in more of my surroundings and notice new things.
In our coaching work and non-executive director roles, we have had the privilege of talking to a cross-section of leaders across…
The value of unstructured thinking time is sometimes not appreciated until it has gone. Not many people mourn the loss of crowded trains and traffic jams of the daily commute, for example.
First came the chaos with everyone scrabbling to move from the office to home, with an extra effort all round to keep things going or, for some, accepting that they would be out of the loop for a while as they were furloughed.
“How are you?” has become a real question that gets a real answer.
“Lunch is for wimps”, so said Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street. This often quoted phrase is memorable because for many it is so true. Yet truly, lunch is for the smart.