Inspire Potential

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

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

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

One of the challenges many businesses face today is keeping up with the heightened speed of the world, as technological advancements and information overload are changing the way we work. People are expected to work faster and more effectively than ever before, resulting in an enormous amount of stress and pressure people are exposed to. These conditions, however, rather than facilitating work, make it harder, sometimes impossible when the demands are, realistically, unachievable. In fact, when we are stressed, parts of the brain shut down and we lose access to the corresponding functions, therefore reducing our performance potential. The question then is about how can we work efficiently under pressure and how can we ensure that our team does the same? These are our 5 top tips on how to get the most out of others and yourself. 1.      When things are overwhelming, stop and remind yourself what the bigger picture is and what is your purpose in it. How do others con

Your teams are the most powerful unit of performance in your organisation. In most teams there is scope to increase productivity and performance by at least 30%. This blog sparks your thinking around how to enhance your team’s diversity and, consequently, their productivity and innovation. In fact, research demonstrates the correlation between a diverse team and its creativity and performance. The one thing that will make your team diverse is diversity of thought. People who think differently can bring creative new perspectives to the team, which will consequently make the team more innovative. So how do you achieve diversity of thought? One way is recruiting people with different experiences and backgrounds, different cultures and ages. Another way is having people with different personalities and motivational drivers, as they will bring attention to distinct aspects and perspectives on a matter depending on what they value most. In recent years, there has bee