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Leading through change

There are a few different leadership attitudes I’ve seen when it comes to communicating a change. It’s either fear, avoidance

Person looking at reflection in puddle of water

Whose leadership are you mirroring?

I thought I’d talk about ‘mirroring’ – which is simply where an individual replicates the behaviour or attitudes of another.

A clock with the words - Time for Change

Fad diets don’t bring lasting change!

There are massive amounts of books and content around that tell us how to change and improve our leadership skills

Are Your Leaders Ready for Anything?

Recently I’ve been looking at trends in leadership and development to identify relevant solutions for people. I’ve come across the

Intention versus interpretation

Our choice of words and the types of conversations we have can impact the desired effect we’re looking for as

Don’t Rush In

As people we’re always in a hurry. Our work environments are almost designed that way – we have to move

Be Engaging: Ask Powerful Questions

The framework I designed called EDGE focuses on a set of attributes to help leaders to have impact and influence.

How to be Engaging Dynamic Genuine and Effective

Communication from a leadership perspective is all about an approach and an attitude. I know there’s more to it than

Finding your process – the best way to learn and thrive 

One of the conversations I had last week was around how best we learn and operate. To discover this saves

How to bring your best self to work 

How can you bring your best self to work, if you don’t know who you are? Purpose is sometimes seen

What do great leaders do well? Communicate!

At a recent conference the speaker said two things that stuck with me… ‘Leadership is a communications process, and that

What type of development is right for you?

I learned about the motivation / capability grid while training to be an executive coach. I also use this when

How to master communications 

My mission is to get every leader to think differently about communication. To realise it’s more than words in a

Start here: Unpacking communication, impact and influence

I talk a lot about communication being able to achieve many things. And I believe strategic communication is the cornerstone

Change and communications go hand in hand

Change communication is an area that many of us have to grapple with regularly. Most change programmes are challenging. Just

Time for a change

A while back I started working as an interim and contractor via Lewis Communicate, where I focused on internal communication,

Leadership developing an EDGE

What kind of leader/leadership do we need to see today and for our future?  You’ll learn: Organisational purpose can aid

Challenge and Opportunity: Internal comms must become what the business needs for these times

As I consider where we are within IC right now and I hear the many discussions across the industry, all

Outtakes: On Purpose and Communications

Purpose is a topic that is at times overlooked as communicators are busy supporting organisations and leadership. It is however,

Communicating through crisis

In this challenging time, we all have to adapt to new ways of working and if you’re in leadership or

Learning how the brain works

Last week I hosted my first event for the series Talk/50. The topic was communications and neuroscience and I invited

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