What is conversational leadership? In an interview with the Financial Times a few months ago Allan Clarke the new CEO of SABMiller described his leadership style as encouraging discussion. This is not a young Silicon Valley outfit, where you might expect to see an informal and personal leadership style, but with the world's second largest
How to improve employee engagement and alignment in today’s flatter, more networked organizations by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind The command-and-control approach to management has in recent years become less and less viable. Globalisation, new technologies, and changes in how companies create value and interact with customers have sharply reduced the efficacy of a purely directive,
Speaking Truth to Power: Help leaders to listen, and employees speak up The leaders of businesses, governments and other major institutions throughout the developed world face a major challenge: how to rebuild trust between themselves and their key stakeholders. The 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer makes for sobering reading, revealing the biggest-ever drop in public trust
Distracted? Why leaders need to spend more time listening Managers need to make a deliberate effort to step back, tune out of the day-to-day “noise” and listen to what their teams are saying. Read on - infographic available here: Superskills Distracted Leaders
Article written by Megan Reitz & John Higgins If you are in an influential position, you have probably said words to the effect of “My door is always open.” You likely meant this declaration very genuinely. You might well feel that you are a pretty approachable sort of person and that others feel comfortable coming
