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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
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.
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
