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How to improve leadership and motivation in a crazy, busy world

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In this crazy, busy world, leaders need to change even faster. Often trying to be more agile and achieve more with less is a constant and tiring struggle. You can break out of the cycle of craziness and become much more effective when you understand your energy and motivation. Knowing your own energy, giving motivational drivers and those of your team, your colleagues, clients, customers and key stakeholders, cuts through the craziness and helps you deliver what’s needed simpler, better and faster. We were lucky enough to have the opportunity to chat with Jane Thomas on a webinar about the brilliant new book book, ‘Mapping Motivation for Leadership’ that she wrote with the Creator of Motivational Maps, James Sale.   You can catch up on the webinar below. The problem is, our energy-giving motivators are as dynamic and changing as the world around us. It is as important to understand which motivators GIVE you energy and which one’s DRAIN your energy. Many people are li

The most important leadership skills to develop

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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