Category Archives: Leadership and Management

Posts here provide commentary on contemporary issues relating to the leadership and management of public and third sector services, usually, but not exclusively, those related to service provision with and for young people.

Avoid the Titanic effect … understanding the organisational iceberg!

Explicit in my last post on the subject of trust, Seven Principles for Building Trust in the Workplace, was the belief that leaders at all levels need to ensure positive relationships within the workplace! This is in order to provide much … Continue reading

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Seven Principles for Building Trust in the Workplace

In my last post on this subject relationships were seen as the key to moving people out of betrayal into trust.  In their book ‘Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace – building effective relationships in your organisation’, Reina and Reina … Continue reading

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Relationships are the key!

Explicit in my last post, betrayal and its impact on trust in the workplace, was the belief that leaders at all levels need to make sure positive relationships exist in the workplace! This is to give much more productive and effective work, … Continue reading

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How clear is your vision?

I was reading a post in a much admired blog – Leadership Freak by Dan Rockwell – who, besides sharing his own wisdom, regularly interviews and relates compelling thoughts and comments from some of the current thought leaders in the … Continue reading

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Betrayal – its impact on trust!

Musing on the impact of change in organisations and teams, I have noted, from my experience and observation, a significant spectrum of response – from anger, denial, and pain [often expressed highly emotively] to clear deliberation, understanding and acceptance. As recently as today, I … Continue reading

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Managing your resilience!

Following on from my recent article about resilience, I would like to offer some thinking, distilled from a range of experiences over recent years, that might provide some notions as to how you can ‘manage’ your resilience. These are things, … Continue reading

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Resilience … in Leadership and Management

The belief that leaders have the endless stamina, ideas, and skills it takes to deliver success year after year is a fallacy of the past … and more evidently so in these difficult modern times. Thus, resilience … the ability … Continue reading

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