As part of this event, we are looking forward to a session from Amy Edmondson who is one of Harvard University’s most respected management thought leaders. Her work focuses on teamwork and the ways leaders can build teams to work more effectively together. Her book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for […]
The Global Leadership Summit in August 2020 was the hardest speaking engagement I’ve ever done in my life. The auditorium was an empty, dark valley of a space. I knew hundreds of thousands of people were going to be watching on the other side of the camera, but right in front of me were just […]
Given the pace of change in the last year, do you feel able to adapt your leadership? According to GLS speaker T.D. Jakes, you can adapt yourself better through the metrics of migrative thinking: Migrative thinking = your ability to think differently in order to be effective Metrics = your ability to measure the impact In […]
To use your influence well, you need to inspire others’ trust and respect. You need to be friendly, warm and collaborative, but also powerful, capable and dependable. Harvard research summarises this as hitting the sweet spot between warmth and competence: What’s true for most of us is that we lean towards one end more than […]
Craig Groeschel delivers an absorbing opening session at the 2020 GLS. Sketching the development curve of most organisations, he goes on to challenge leaders to “lead through the dip.” His point? Any organisation that is in a low spot of their development curve needs the right kind of leadership. It’s not difficult to see why […]
A great question! One of the issues being talked about in light of certain cultural trends is the need for resilience. Interestingly, commentators argue that what was always trumpeted as a national characteristic is now less true than it was. Without any pre-ordained plan, we have replaced a culture of resilience – characterised by flourishing in […]
Interview series from 2019 with church leader, Tracee McAtear. Could you tell us a bit more about your discipleship training? It is a simple rhythm at its core each Thursday night. We don’t want to reinvent the wheel so we try to use courses that are well-developed and tried and tested to take our people […]
Dear Friends “To thine own self be true” is the immortal and encouraging advice of Polonius in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”. Equally, it has been observed that having the courage to be true to oneself in our current culture is not without its problems. Views that are not acceptable to elitist groups (whoever they are) are quickly […]
Dear Friends Giving Permision Recently on a rainy morning a friend and I approached one of our local coffee shops at 8.30am. It was raining hard. We were told in no uncertain terms that the place was shut and would open at 9am. Innocently, we asked whether we could sit at one of the outside […]
Interview series from 2019 with church leader, Tracee McAtear. Can you name a person who has had a tremendous impact on you? Maybe someone who has been a mentor to you? Why and how did this person impact your life? I have been blessed to have so many mentors/leaders that have had an impact in […]
