Regulating Your Brain to Function at Your Best
“Our brains are amazing instruments—endlessly fascinating and full of potential”
To Promote Innovation, Lead with Forgiveness
A culture of innovation is founded on forgiveness. Yet in many workplaces people are put under unforgiving pressure to turn ideas into innovative advantage, with little patience for mistakes.
A Call for Mindful Leadership
If organisations were mindful, rather than mindless as they often are, leadership would be quite different. In this guest blog, previously published on the Harvard Business Review blog as part of a six-part series on the future of leadership, and her website, Harvard professor Ellen Langer explains why it is time for leaders to wake up. […]
Six Ways to Translate Great Ideas into Exceptional Execution
Many of us know what great leadership or innovation looks like and what we should be doing to deliver on our strategies. Most of us also agree that we get the best and most creative outcomes for ourselves and others when feeling energised and positive. It’s often common sense yet is not always common practice. […]
Informal Strengths Assessment: Simple Ways to Realise Strengths in People
Helping people realise their strengths enables you to get the best from them whatever the context. Whether you are a coach, leader, hiring manager, teacher or parent, strengths are natural, authentic resources that people can draw on to achieve higher performance, find more fulfilment and reach their potential.
How to Set Positive Resolutions and Actually Keep Them
Have you started the new year full of good intentions and resolutions to improve your wellbeing, challenge yourself and achieve your personal and professional goals? Have you wavered yet? As humans, we are naturally inclined to seek out challenges and find purpose in our lives. […]
Which Strengths Tool Should I Use? The Case for Strengths Profile
As a consultant and master trainer who specialises in assessing and developing people’s potential, clients often ask me to help them select the best tool to support their leadership or people development initiatives. […]
Boosting Employee Engagement by Investing in Wellbeing
Empirical research shows that wellbeing is a prerequisite for sustaining success for people and their workplaces, not simply a happy benefit. […]
Leadership is About Caring for People (and Being the Best You Can Be)
“To crack the leadership code, you’ve got to care about people, you’ve got to be interested in people. I think once you can genuinely be interested in people then developing those skills… will follow. You need to care about people… And show up as the best version of yourself.” Sue Langley recently spoke with Dr Michelle Pizer, for Crack the Leadership Code 2016, an online leadership summit. Michelle asked Sue for her insights on future leadership trends, and some of the strategies leaders can take to support people, build positive, innovative workplaces and make a real [...]
Positive Leadership: A Framework for Boosting Organisational Performance
Smart organisations can achieve improvement and business benefits by equipping leaders with the capabilities to create a positive culture that leads to thriving performance.