A two-by-two matrix for effective personal change. A little while ago, my colleague Daniel Vacassin wrote this piece on using a two by two matrix to simplify organisational change. It got me thinking about how we can apply this same, incredibly useful, tool to personal development. …

‘Wellness’ and ‘engagement’ are two irritatingly vague buzzwords currently making the rounds in conversations about workplace productivity. We all know that exercise is good for us, and that sitting for eight hours straight isn’t going to do us any favours. …

Our client was a technology firm with ten years of fast growth behind them. Employing nearly 300 people across the globe, their concept had catapulted them to early success, which was now reaching a plateau. They were looking to increase their profitability, and attract interest in external investment. Under the magnifying glass Although the…

He’s in his fifties, a high-profile executive, often quoted in the business press. He has a six-figure package, sometimes seven in a good year. He owns a Home Counties pile, a trophy car, and takes exotic holidays in fashionably obscure destinations. And… his children ignore him, on the rare occasions…

Everywhere you turn, business leaders are constantly being encouraged to improve themselves, to build up their skills and behaviours, and generally to put their shoulders to the wheel. Indeed, if you stacked up all the tomes on leader self-improvement, you’d have a tottering pile as tall as a Trump Tower. …

From FTSE100 board leaders to SME middle management, here are some of the biggest self-imposed obstacles we see in coaching and leadership development work. Rigidity of self-perception Self-insight lies at the heart of any real change. Easy to say, hard to realise. As we grow up, we form a picture of our selves…

Imagine yourself on the interview board for an internal audit manager. The next candidate’s CV looks good: some interesting experience, the right formal qualifications, all very promising. The candidate comes through the doorway, and she’s got a tattoo covering her entire neck and some of her face. What’s the first…

The world of work is changing. The fourth industrial revolution is upon us — a period characterised by the disruptive and explosive growth of new technologies and systems. But is the digital revolution mostly hype? …

If your answer to this question was ‘both’, please go to the back of the class and sit next to the client who once asked us to find ‘a really creative leader with great attention to tiny detail’… because they are very different beasts. Anyone who is an expert is…