Category Archives: Strategic Leadership
Surfing, sinking and swimming
Perhaps the mark of a great leader is that when they’re around you know they’re on their game 100% and when they’re not it still feels as if they were. Continue reading
Managing Change and Overcoming Resistance
Schermerhorn et al (2005) suggest eight reasons that people may have for resisting change: fear of the unknown lack of good information fear of loss of security no reasons to change fear of loss of power lack of resources bad timing … Continue reading
Finding Flow – What is Flow and how do you achieve it as a senior leader?
The materials included in the section draw on the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and I was immediately drawn to them as I was at least familiar with the idea. I first came across the concept of flow whilst participating in adventure sports … Continue reading
Impact, Influence and Self Awareness
We’re always explaining to pupils that they need to be good listeners but do we always model that good behaviour ourselves? Although we all like to think we’re good at listening to other people it’s interesting how sometimes other people don’t … Continue reading
