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One way to clear your decks a little is to delegate more. Done well, delegation is a win-win-win. You free up time to focus where you can add more value. Your people gain valuable skills and experience and the team becomes...

Towards the end of the year, a little reflection is customary. It may be very cursory, along the lines of: ‘I’ll be glad to see the back of 2022!’ But we can give ourselves useful gifts if we spend a...

“Same storm, different boats” has been a much-used phrase during the COVID-19 pandemic. And whether we had a hastily cobbled-together raft or a luxury liner, most of us have been going wherever the winds and waves take us whilst focusing...

Same storm, different boats” has been a much-used phrase during the COVID-19 pandemic. And whether we had a hastily cobbled-together raft or a luxury liner, most of us have been going wherever...

When you’ve got too much on your to-do list, you can’t think straight. The Eisenhower matrix is a simple thinking tool for establishing a sense of order over all those tasks so you can get the clarity you need to...

Thinking well together is fundamental to so much of what we do. We need to think well with our colleagues to anticipate and resolve issues on projects. We need to think well with our clients to create solutions that add...

Reflecting on my experiences as a leader and a leadership coach, I think there’s an approach to leadership which hasn’t been given enough recognition. I’m talking about Thoughtful Leadership. I think it’s a way of leading which can be incredibly...

Why read this book? To get better at communicating with other people. To explore how what’s going on in our heads – individually and collectively – gets in the way of thinking and talking clearly and creatively, and what we might...

As the New Year exhortations to work on the ‘new you’ pile up in your inbox, you may find that you’re not clear about what, how, or whether to change at all. For example, some people insist that you should have...