Posts

Showing posts from October, 2019

The most important leadership skills to develop

Image
Developing leadership skills is seen as a top priority for business leaders, yet with everyone working at a new pace and scale, identifying the most relevant skills to focus on and making time to learn are huge challenges. A new report  “Striking Balance with Whole Brain Leadership to achieve competitive agility” from Accenture , cuts to the chase. For leaders to solve complex business problems, quickly and more productively, they need to learn how to use their whole brain. Change requires leaders to assimilate data quickly (left, analytical hemisphere dominance) whilst simultaneously having the holistic intelligence to tap into the full potential of employees and consumers (right, creative hemisphere dominance). Leaders can learn how to access both sides of their brain simultaneously by learning how to become more neuro-agile and cognitively diverse – the most important skills for 2020 and beyond. “If you get a better level of cognitive diversity you get a better outcome”  B

How to future proof your talent

Image
The world of work is changing with technological advancements and artificial intelligence, and it will continue to do so more and more rapidly in future years. One of the priorities and challenges for organisations has become how to keep their people’s skills relevant, as their jobs are uptaken by machines and technology. Carole Gaskell, Founder and CEO of Full Potential Group, says that if we embrace AI, the impact for the workforce is that we have to become even more human. If machines can do the mechanical work, it’s time for us to embrace our human qualities at a profoundly different level and to bring out abilities that weren’t required before. There are three fundamental aspects that characterise our humanness: our unique brain power, our heart power (emotional intelligence) and our intuition (gut power). Developing these specifically human aspects further is the answer to remaining relevant in the future of work. In fact, the World Economic Forum’s report on the key skil

3 ways to get the most out of your talent – ensuring execution of strategy

Image
How do you as a leader deliver on strategy? How do you help your most valuable resource, your people, to deliver the best results and get things done to the best of both their individual and collective ability?  How many times do high potential teams fail to deliver the great results, where do teams get stuck?  What are the top tips to help the shift towards greatness? How can you pool everyone’s skills, knowledge, potential and expertise for the best results? 3 strategic ways to get the most out of your talent so they execute on strategy: Boost coaching and effective delegation for optimal performance Stimulate action learning for accountability and execution Embed mentoring to short-cut experience and build a learning culture Boost coaching and effective delegation for optimal performance Are the right people doing the right jobs? Are they getting things done through  effective delegation and coaching skills? How many times have you or someone in one of your teams fo