Leadership Journal
When you need support from someone who’s built and run teams
Practical, confidential coaching for SME founders and first-time managers built on real leadership experience and business psychology, not theory.
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The 7 Team Problems Costing You More Than You Think
If I had a pound for every time a founder or manager opened a conversation with me like that, I could have retired somewhere warm by now. It’s almost always the first thing people say when their team isn’t working the way they’d hoped. Controversially, it’s very rarely true. Not because communication doesn’t matter (it…
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The Feedback Formula – The Secret to Feedback That Actually Works
If you’ve ever felt awkward giving feedback – or receiving it – you’re in good company.
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The Beginner’s Guide to Being a Good Leader
It happens so often – you’ve been promoted for the first time to a managerial role, but you get no guidance on how to do it well – and unless you’ve got a great role model for a boss, you’re unlikely to know instinctively how to get the best from your team, and from yourself.
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Why the UK Can’t Afford Untrained Managers – And What We Can Do About It
You’d never step onto a plane with a pilot who’s received no formal training, or agree to go under the scalpel of a surgeon who’s never studied medicine – the very idea is crazy.
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Managing Across Generations: A First-Time Manager’s Guide to Leading Every Age Group
Stepping into leadership for the first time can feel like pulling up a chair at a family gathering: everyone’s at the same table, but not everyone brings the same perspectives, values or priorities.
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See your Team’s Real Potential: the Brilliance of Belbin Team Roles
“I’m a million different people from one day to the next…” – so sang Britpop band, The Verve, a VERY long time ago! And while a million is an exaggeration for most people, they may have had a point: we can all behave differently depending on the situation we’re in, and who we’re surrounded by…
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Why You Need to Stop Being Too Nice At Work (and What to Do Instead)
When stepping into leadership for the first time, many new managers fall into a trap that feels right at the time, but can cause them big problems longer term
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How to Get Better at Delegating – Especially If You’re New to Management
As a manager, you know you’ve got to delegate some of the jobs on your list – but I bet that for some of them, you’ve occasionally found yourself thinking, “It’ll just be quicker if I do it myself.”
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The power we give to the words we say
You have brilliant ideas, and so much to say – but sometimes, the way we say them and the words we use can doom them from the start with our listeners. Just making a few small changes here and there can drastically improve our chances of being heard, and getting the response we are looking…