Proactive, collaborative and transparent leaders consider, the effect and reaction from others when looking at what changes in action, behaviour or management style will have over the team or department in their organisations. These leaders carefully measure how a decision relating to one department...

This blog post is a chapter extract from the book by Cenred Harmsworth and Dr Jack Jacoby: Managing Change Initiatives
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Definition and Overview

A business case presents and assesses the business justification for initiating a task or project.

Let’s consider the empathy issue more deeply than the previous brief mentions.

We have seen how EQ (read here the article on EQ/ Emotional intelligence) is critical to a leader’s tools. Empathy is an integral element of EQ.

Empathy is the characteristic of understanding, being aware of, being sensiti...

When we speak of “leadership” most people unsurprisingly think of CEOship.
The reality is that although CEOs are certainly leaders, there are other leaders in the organisation apart from the CEO.
Every person who has the responsibility for other people, is a leader of those people, regardless of where...

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, your ego is “your idea or opinion of yourself, especially your feeling of your own importance and ability.”[1]

In psychoanalytic terms, the ego attempts to achieve one’s hidden desires within the demands of the real world.

These two dimensions are important for a...

In a previous article, we discussed the “inner” and personal values of all people, and specifically of leaders, and of the impact that these “inner” subjectivities can have on a leader’s journey.

When the leader exposes their values to the organisation, they establish or at least affect, the way th...

An organisation will appoint a leader who can demonstrate to the board their capability for a particular organisational context defined by that board.

For example, an organisation in start-up mode will seek a leader with experience in start-up organisations. An organisation in a mature environment ...

When talking with the shareholders and directors of major corporations, it is increasingly common to hear them talk of the difficulty they experience in maintaining control over their corporations and, more importantly, ensuring that the corporation delivers that which is expected of it by its owner...

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Step One

1. Identify the outcomes (KPOs) you require your marketing activities to deliver.

For example, are those marketing activities intended to grow the number of ev...

There is no organisation that has no problems.

Every organisation is faced with a range of challenges – some of them are problems that impede their efforts to deliver their objectives – and some are opportunities that also generate problems associated with adaptation, adoption, acceptance, and integr...

Discover the 12 Pivot Points that every organisation needs to get right.

We have learned from decades of experience that there are no islands in organisations. When things happen, or don’t happen, there are impacts up and down the organisation, and often outside of it.

To fix issues, undertake chang...

When a leader appears to have little confidence in their own judgement and abilities, why should the leader’s followers respect what the leader says or does?

Personal confidence is confidence in oneself, in one’s own judgement, in one’s own experience, and can be considered to be one’s self-esteem....