It’s a classic challenge in fast-growing companies. Your headcount is catching up with how quickly you’re evolving, and that inevitably means new leadership positions open up! A lot of the time that means promoting from within or hiring someone for their first managerial role. But being a new leader is
Our intentions when we behave a certain way and how those land don’t always match up! Luckily, you’re not alone. All leaders fall foul of what Ally Jones describes as The Awareness Gap – the difference between the two. A clear chasm between the positive intentions we have when we
Now more than ever, people need effective leaders! The situation we expected to pose a few weeks of problems back in March 2020 is throwing more questions at us than an eccentric Batman villain in a green suit. And the last thing you need is another riddle around the leadership
Not every great leader planned to become one, but they’ve probably been on the receiving end of some great leadership planning! Whether it’s being paired with a great mentor, given the chance to lead on a project or sent on an amazing course, leadership development training is so often the
Management isn’t something you just decide to do. Rome wasn’t built in a day, as they say, and Caesar’s leadership skills certainly weren’t either! Instead, the key to doing a leadership title justice is a well-thought-out plan. Your leadership development plan lays out the necessary steps you’ll need to take
Are some people just born to lead? Perhaps. But is that to say that if you haven’t made it as a manager yet, you never will? Absolutely not. Leadership skills are those essential traits and competencies that all successful leaders share — and they are well within your reach. Because
It goes without saying that customer success has changed since the pandemic, but the better questions are how has it evolved? What can leaders do more effectively in response? And how can we learn socially from our CS colleagues and other departments in the world of hybrid work? Angela Guedes,
Why would a company move from KPIs or that standard goal-setting model to objectives and key results? Or, as you might know them, OKRs. That’s the big question we put to Jacquie Gay, Program Manager of Talent Development at TomTom, in this week’s episode of 99 Problems But Work Ain’t
Just because we sit in the same room or department, that doesn’t make us a team! In fact, a lot of companies have lost sight of what a great team is because they’re just doing things the way they’ve always been done. Those were just a couple of the hard
Imagine you’re stuck in a lift with a bunch of geniuses. Maybe Microsoft magnate Bill Gates is leaning against one wall, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is by the other and in between are the world’s best scientists, lawyers and authors. Once the nerves wear off you’re ready to start picking
You’ve got geniuses all over your organisation, whether you’ve realised it yet or not! And it’s one of the reasons why we no longer learn in the top-down fashion, where a few people higher up are responsible for all L&D. Subject matter experts exist in different teams and it’s partly
Why do so many organisations find it so difficult to establish and build their desired mindset? In Toby Newman’s opinion, they’ve not broken it down into relevant terms for their people or teams and they’re not always putting in the hours. If you’ve ever wondered how you can democratise learning,
