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Your leadership brand matters - although a jaunty red bandana is optional

This is part of our series on biases in the workplace. A full list of bias blog posts can be found here: If you're biased and you know...

A change in pandemic response alert levels gave me the chance to deliver some real-time learning about change communication last week. On...

Processes, rules, regulations - they don't exactly leap off the page as topics to inspire emotion. But you're unlikely to get people to...

Joe Biden's first speech as President-elect was a key milestone in the transition of power. Was it great? Possibly not. Was it coherent...

We need to understand the neuroscience of how and why people vote. We've got plenty of evidence that emotion wins over rational argument.

Politicians are caught in a huge cauldron of steaming ambiguity. 

Yesterday I put myself through a lot of pain. Three separate painful sessions to be exact. One was necessary (a dentist appointment), one...

Last night two women went head to head in the Leader's Debate, one of many set pieces of a modern election campaign. Political analysis...

A few years ago, Simon Sinek came to the mainstream with The Golden Circle concept: Start with Why. In short, he states all organisations...

I've always been fascinated by hostage situations, and thought we must have a lot to learn from hostage negotiators. Then, I've thought -...

Thomas Paine, a 1700s political activist in the US, famously said, the pen is mightier than the sword. That’s because words change the...

One of the great joys of life for me is browsing library and bookshop shelves. You don't know what you'll come across, what you'll learn...

For the past few months, conspiracy theories have been running wild about what 5G networks are and aren't doing (newsflash: they do not...

Advice is coming thick and fast right now. I've taken plenty of advice on technology for new ways of working. Other, equally important...

We're in a tough and unpredictable new world. And over the past week, I've yet again realised the value of conversation - just talking to...

A game of word association in 2019 would likely pair ‘influence’ with ‘Instagram’. If the idea of an Instagram influencer is a mystery...

Some models are too simplistic Over the years we’ve worked with several different feedback models, and never felt entirely comfortable...

To be truly effective you need to have 2 key ingredients present in your conversations. You need to show you care personally, and...