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Human Leadership 101: Be The Archaeologist Not The Architect

After 15-ish years in the world of people development with a host of different organisations. I’ve most certainly noticed a few trends on the things people managers, and quite often new people managers, get wrong about their role.

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Leadership lessons: Where’s your empathy?

Welcome to the latest entry in my long running leadership lessons series.

In these posts, I break down the most valuable skills, traits, behaviours and more that leaders need to succeed.

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What I learnt from the man who coached leaders at Google, Apple, Amazon and more

Bill Campbell is often known as the coach of silicon valley.

He was the business coach to many tech superstars including Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Sundar Pichai at Google, Susan Wojcicki at YouTube, Steve Jobs at Apple, Brad D. Smith at Intuit, Jeff Bezos at Amazon, John Donahoe at eBay, Marissa Mayer at Yahoo, Jack Dorsey and Dick Costolo at Twitter, and Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook.

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5 simple things to build trust and stronger relationships with your team

I’ve spent a lot of my career working with lots of different teams trying to solve lots of different complex problems.

To deliver on their goals and perform to a high level, it’s essential to work in a culture of trust and one that looks to support each other no matter the situation. I’ve mostly found it’s the little things and little moments that count in building an environment for continued success.

Here’s some advice/ideas/thoughts on how you can achieve this.

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What a special forces soldier taught me about the necessity of vulnerability

No one is completely strong or weak.

You would assume the topics of vulnerability and the SAS (Special Air Service, a special forces branch of the British Army) aren’t something you’d commonly find pieced together in a sentence.