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The story behind Britain’s sporting success

Given Team GB’s sustained success over the last four Olympic cycles, the forgotten name is Peter Keen. We worked with Peter to develop a template containing all the elements of a world class system and introduce it to British sport.

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Life after Lockdown: Go Slow, Think Long.

In this week’s insight, Hetty Einzig shares her thoughts on how we’re adapting to life coming out of lockdown. She urges us all to take our time, notice what we’re feeling and experiencing, and stay true to what feels right for us in this period of ongoing transition.

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Leadership Agility: Necessity is The Mother of Invention

Great leaders find the time to think about these questions on their own, with their colleagues, and with their teams. As we come out of lockdown (again), it’s a good time to ask “how will you continue to harness your organization’s drive and creativity over the next period?”

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Reflection is a Superpower

The world has become obsessed with productivity. Long hours, back-to-back zooms and to-do lists that can put fear into even the most stoic of executives. And over the last year, changes to how we work had brought this to the fore even more.

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Vaccinations – complicated or complex?

The Cynefin framework defines different types of problems and the leadership approach required to address them. It’s a helpful framework as we think about the success of the vaccine roll out – and to understand many other situations that we experience as human beings, and as leaders, navigating through challenging times.

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Compassion and Self Care

Friends and clients alike have told us that this lockdown has been different from the last two, that it has snuck up on them how different they have felt.

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2021 – A Year of Hope

The end of 2020 showed us once again just how quickly and dramatically the context could change. But despite a challenging and unexpected start, 2021 is a year of great hope, growth and regeneration.

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Re-imaging the Future

The leadership skill of horizon scanning has never been more important – the events of the last year has demonstrated this in abundance. The ability to gaze over the parapet and the confines of your world, to anticipate and predict the future, and to then apply that insight to plan and contingency plan is absolutely core for any leader, and particularly if you’re responsible for the future direction of your business.

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Vale Alistair Mant

Alistair Mant passed away in October 2020. He was a long-time friend and mentor of ours, and we want to mark his contribution to the field of leadership.

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Gaining Altitude – Leading High Performance Dispersed Teams

“It’s all about gaining altitude” said William Winstone as he framed the second in our four-module Leading in New Worlds programme “The ability to zoom in and out gives us different perspectives and a different relationship with the ground we work on – a bit like Google maps!” he added.

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Leading in New Worlds – Leading Remotely

“The course has already started me thinking about my actions as a leader. How can I be more intentional in what I do for both myself and my team. It has made me consider recognising performance as well as outcomes!”

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