by Antony Tinker | Apr 19, 2022 | Culture, Leadership, Teamwork
Sir Alex Ferguson said that the two most powerful words in his vocabulary when managing Manchester United were “well done”. But how often in your career have you felt that your hard work and achievements haven’t been properly noticed? One of the most common complaints...
by Antony Tinker | Apr 1, 2022 | Leadership, Organisational Learning, Performance, Personal growth
Life, especially in business, is very much like walking up a descending escalator: when we stand still, we fall backwards and slip behind (behind our competitors, our customers, the best version of ourselves). We need to continuously put one foot in front of the other...
by Antony Tinker | Mar 18, 2022 | Leadership, Personal growth
Spring is a time for tidying up and decluttering, with the roots of spring cleaning to be found in ancient traditions and religious customs around the world. Cleaning our homes and sorting through our possessions can be a cathartic experience, as well as having...
by Antony Tinker | Feb 25, 2022 | Employee Engagement, Leadership, Personal growth
Readers of our last blog will remember that we consider listening to be the first of the four essential pillars of good leadership. We were delighted to come across this wonderful poem by Ralph Roughton recently as it captures perfectly why listening is one of the...
by Antony Tinker | Feb 11, 2022 | Culture, Leadership, Personal growth
There is certainly no shortage of scholarship and opinion on how to be a good leader. Countless research projects and thousands of years of analysis have led to a huge variety of models of good leadership. These models may fall in and out of fashion but, at its core,...
by Antony Tinker | Jan 19, 2022 | Leadership, Performance
Have you ever thought about the difference between instruction and direction? These two words may be found alongside each other in the thesaurus but, when it comes to leadership skills, they mean very different things. In fact, recognising the difference and knowing...
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