Resource: VISIBLE WOMEN – HOW TO UNLOCK POTENTIAL AND CREATE A TALENTED PIPELINE OF SENIOR WOMEN LEADERS

By |2025-08-13T12:39:59+01:00July 21, 2020|Categories: Leadership, Web Resource|

Link to ebook on senior female leadership pipelines

Article: Building Snowmobiles – All By Ourselves

By |2025-08-13T12:39:59+01:00July 14, 2020|Categories: Complexity & Systems thinking, Leadership, Models, Web Resource|Tags: , , , |

An interesting article and supporting resources (documents & PDFs) on distributed decision making

Article: The Future of Command and Control-4 Models to Provoke Thought

By |2025-08-13T12:39:59+01:00July 12, 2020|Categories: Complexity & Systems thinking, Leadership, Web Resource|Tags: , , , |

Link to article with four models that look at facets of devolved decision making / sense making.

Article: Finding simplicity in chaos: Beyond VUCA — People Matters

By |2020-06-22T19:09:20+01:00June 22, 2020|Categories: Complexity & Systems thinking, Leadership, Web Resource|Tags: , , , |

Some interesting points in this, so holding here for later reading...Read to know why we need a more thoughtful way of making sense of our emerging chaos and uncertainty — Read on www.peoplematters.in/article/life-at-work/finding-simplicity-in-chaos-beyond-vuca-25159

Article – Sensemaking 101: tips for improving your sensemaking in a time of confusion

By |2020-06-20T10:26:49+01:00June 20, 2020|Categories: Complexity & Systems thinking, Leadership, Web Resource|Tags: , , , |

My work at The National Lottery Community Fund and beyond involves hosting people in sensemaking processes. Good sensemaking is important for any group or team who are trying to make sense of the… — Read on medium.com/@phoebetickell/sensemaking-101-tips-for-improving-your-sensemaking-in-a-time-of-confusion-c2399a5f9981

Article: Integrating Chaos: Building Resilient Organizations with Chaos Theory

By |2025-08-13T12:39:58+01:00May 26, 2020|Categories: Complexity & Systems thinking, Leadership, Web Resource|

Article to read later: Chaos Theory says that organizations are "complex adaptive systems" and that through this lens, we can build emergent, adaptive and resilient organizations. Read on here think-boundless.com/chaos-theory/

Article: What Psychological Safety Actually Means For Teams

By |2020-05-24T20:51:41+01:00May 24, 2020|Categories: Leadership, Teamwork, Web Resource|Tags: , , |

Saving for later: how trust in groups works, and why it matters — Read on www.shanesnow.com/teamwork/psychological-safety

Recovery Star – Resilience

By |2025-08-13T12:48:10+01:00April 22, 2020|Categories: Executive Coaching, Leadership, Models, Web Resource|

The Recovery Star developed by the Association of Mental Health Providers (formely the Mental Health Providers Forum), is an outcomes measure which enables people using services to measure their own recovery progress, with the help of mental health workers or others. Recovery Star | Mental Health Partnerships:

Mapping – Leading Culturally Diverse Teams in the Workplace

By |2025-08-13T12:39:09+01:00April 21, 2020|Categories: Leadership, Teamwork, Web Resource|Tags: , , |

Via Kulvir Bahra The first process of the MBI model is to map cultural differences present in the team. In this article, we learn how to actually do this in a team. — Read on www.futurelearn.com/courses/harnessing-cultural-diversity/2/steps/699233

Comfort Zone

By |2020-04-18T21:06:59+01:00April 12, 2020|Categories: Executive Coaching, Leadership, Models|

This is the fifth in a series of articles around key concepts that have impacted me personally and professionally over the course of my career. I cam across the phrase of comfort zone early in my career when working at Plas-Y-Brenin, The National Centre for Mountain Activities in Snowdonia North Wales. All instructors were asked to stretch course participants out of their [...]

Stop – Challenge – Choose

By |2020-04-19T09:41:27+01:00April 12, 2020|Categories: Executive Coaching, Leadership|

This is the second of ten blog articles around concepts that have had a significant on me as a manager, leaders, coach and facilitator. “Stop, Challenge and Choose” is a powerful concept that I learnt back in 1994, when working with a client to deliver an 18,000 person training programme in 18 months. The programme was based around the work developed [...]

Circle of Control

By |2020-04-12T09:34:49+01:00April 12, 2020|Categories: Executive Coaching, Leadership|

This is the first of a series of blog pieces around what I consider to be the most essential concepts I have come across in the course of my 20 years as a manager, leader, trainer, coach. The first of these is attributed to the great author Stephen Covey, and comes from his book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. [...]

STORM Mnemonic – Engagement

By |2020-03-25T12:43:06+00:00March 21, 2020|Categories: Leadership, Models|Tags: , |

In preparation for a programme in October on Strategy Execution for Senior Leaders, I have been reading "Seven Strategy Questions: A simple approach for better execution" by Robert Simons, and it had an acronym on it that I liked for leadership engagement. The acronym was developed at the cosmetics company Mary Kay to espouse their beliefs about motivation. Their workers, principally [...]

Change Grid Certification – Business Coaching

By |2025-08-11T17:08:02+01:00March 21, 2020|Categories: Executive Coaching, Leadership, Models|Tags: , , |

  Yesterday (Wednesday 3rd July 2013) I completed my ChangeWorks ChangeGrid Certification. What is ChangeWorks®? ChangeWorks is a system that applies the principles, insights, tools and techniques of “Tension Management” to supporting the change process at the individual, team and organizational levels. The focus of ChangeWorks is measuring, monitoring and managing the levels of "productive tension" the individual or population is [...]

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