You’ve heard them telling you about the latest change initiative, the strategy and general disruption to your life. The slides are bright shiny, powerful and professional, full of facts...

With monotonous regularity, employee engagement surveys tell us that leader communication remains the area of greatest dissatisfaction and an impediment to motivation and trust. So what is going wrong...

Musings of a Twitter toddler- week one Following the urging and encouragement of my shipmates on the Social Safari. https://thelearningconference.wordpress.com/ I’ve just twittered or tweeted my 2nd tweet. At...

Maybe I shouldn’t have raised the subject –but how do you respond to someone who says he just wants to be ‘the real me’. What does that mean –...

I emerged from 2015, blinking, after 3 months tucked away in a glorious bubble learning ‘The Heart and Craft of storytelling.’ http://www.schoolofstorytelling.com  You might well ask ‘why so long?’ –...

Corporate collapse and lack of trust has led to a demand for a different type of leader. The old style of charismatic leadership is not sustainable and has spawned...

Why do most of us automatically assume that communication issues in cross-cultural teams stem from national characteristics? I suppose it’s easy to stereotype the Americans as ‘rush in and...

My interest in authentic leadership started when I gained painful first-hand experience with organisations that collapsed spectacularly. I worked alongside leaders in GEC as it turned to dust as...

I had been coaching a senior civil servant – I’ll call him John – for several months. John was a highly respected leader running a large department who wanted...