Looking busy at work
Business school researchers have identified a type of employee, who manages to look busy and successful without actually doing anything useful. You know the one, who talks a big talk at meetings but when it comes to implementation, they are nowhere to be seen. Turns...
Stressing the obvious
In Mental Health Week, we were yet again lamenting the levels of stress, rampant in the UK. The loss to individuals of quality of life, to businesses of skilled talent, through poor functioning presenteeism, or sickness absence and to our economy as a whole, is...
Leadership in Classical Music
There is a fascinating parallel between the professionalisation of management and the rise and fall of big Conductor personalities… In this week’s ‘Music Matters’ on BBC Radio 3, Averil Leimon sets the scene for a discussion about power in art....
Because you’re worth it! – How to ask for a pay rise
Talking about money is a taboo subject, especially amongst women in the workplace it would seem. Recently Averil, along with other inspirational contributors, talked to Elle UK about navigating the waters when it came to the thorny issue of negotiating a pay rise....
Leading Millennials is exciting
I’m quite partial to millennials… Are you? Today the Telegraph interviews Averil and other experts on how to lead millennials. Views range from the ‘received wisdom’ of the Entitled Generation to more subtle cues on getting the best out of...
Alumni Breakfast series – Reinventing Leadership
Today we relaunched our Alumni Breakfast series. Thanks to all attendees. Here is a short video for those who could not make it. See you all next time!
Coaching blog: Do you really think that people can change?
The oldest joke in Psychology is: “How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb?” The answer, of course, is “only one but the lightbulb needs to really want to change.” Do you, really, at a visceral level, believe that people can...
But how do you really feel?
It has been a week of strongly held, fiercely expressed and often diametrically opposed emotions. Long repressed fury and grudges have kept pace with eulogies. Whatever your intellectual or political stance one thing has been clear. People have an enormous capacity...