Women can save us from the Leadership Cliff. Coaching them is key
As companies compete for emerging leadership talent, women represent an under-used resource. It is bad enough from a moral standpoint, but it is also a genuine loss of competitive advantage in the war for Talent. According to our research, the industrial world will be...
Happy International Women’s Day 2017 – Be Bold for Change!
Happy International Women’s Day! The theme for this year is Be Bold For Change. In Averil’s video below, she points out three critical actions you can start implementing today to foster change and have an impact in both your own life and wider society. What...
Nominate! Male Leadership research
New research from White Water Group in association with NatWest Markets, seeks to learn about good male leaders. Those leaders who succeed in these turbulent, diverse and more complex times, who are inclusive in their approach and are role models for younger men and...
Negotiation Skills: natural or learnt?
Negotiating is an essential life skill that we are not always explicitly taught. What are the key secrets of good negotiators? Averil Leimon, Leadership Psychologist and Director of White Water Group, discussed it all with Stephen Jardine on BBC Radio Scotland –...
Straight Talking can be for Good News too
Being a straight talker doesn’t mean that you have to be critical or offensive. We avoid not only confrontation but the good stuff too, suspicious of positive comments as just being a softener before the negative! If you take the opportunity to praise others in a...
Selfies: love ‘em or hate ‘em?
We take 100m of them every day. Why? Self-expression can explain part of the trend, but is there something more complex at play? Dig deeper by listening to Averil Leimon’s insights.
Political correctness v. unconscious bias
In the increasingly fractious debate of what constitutes acceptable public speech, organisation err towards bland caution, for fear of unleashing a twitter storm damageable to their reputation. Yet the same organisations routinely reinforce the use of expressions that...
Averil Leimon talks about motivation
Listen to Averil on BBC Radio 4 ‘Women’s Hour’ talking about motivation with the two Olympic Champions Tessa Sanderson CBE and Dame Kelly Holmes. Click here to listen to the full podcast. Would you like to learn more about motivation and how to feel...