by Matthew Emerson | Jul 22, 2022 | Leadership Development
“To the casual observer, emotions and accountancy can seem like unrelated concepts from two separate worlds. But to succeed in a fast-evolving digital age, professional accountants need a rounded set of skills that go beyond technical knowledge, and these skills...
by Marzenna Almendro | Jun 29, 2022 | Leadership Development
When faced with problems, we may be guilty of making decisions and coming up with solutions too quickly. Who can blame us? The process of crossing off items on our perpetual to-do list creates a dopamine hit. But at what cost? Are these solutions effective or are we...
by Marzenna Almendro | May 16, 2022 | Leadership Development
Imagine the leader of a successful business decided to merge with another business. When probed why, they expressed that this decision was based on a ‘gut’ instinct. You may judge this as a demonstration of ineffective leadership, but emotions are not trivial...
by Marzenna Almendro | Apr 25, 2022 | Leadership Development
Leadership development is big business. There is an obscene number of players offering programmes promising to impart hard and soft skills required by today’s leaders. Businesses globally spend billions of pounds every year to upskill current and future leaders –...
by Marzenna Almendro | Nov 17, 2021 | Leadership Development
There is a misconception that a resilient team is a collection of resilient individuals – but people don’t function in isolation. There are a myriad of variables that impact the resilience of a team. From an individual perspective, resilience can buffer against...
by Matthew Emerson | Jul 13, 2021 | Leadership Development
Emotional Intelligence is a term that is in danger of being over-used and, as a result, over-simplified or used in the wrong context. It can seem like a foreign concept, possibly discarded as another ‘leadership fad’, and in some cases in reaction to misuse and...