Reading Time: 2 minutes Topic: Leadership Leadership is a lonely place Anyone who is, or has been a CEO or senior leader will recognise that leading an organisation can be a lonely place. Whether it’s developing organisational strategy, sorting people issues, overcoming funding challenges, dealing with the Board, leading and Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Blog Topic: Board Effectiveness I have just finished working with an organisation where the main focus of the work has once again been helping the CEO, Chair and the Board to review their effectiveness and assist with their ongoing development. Generally, I find that this sort Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Blog Topic: Personal Development/Leadership Recently I have just finished working with an organisation helping them to identify how to improve their effectiveness – both collectively as a Board as well as individually as Trustees and Directors. Over the years I have seen the good, the bad Read more…
Over the last ten years I have always considered my end of year ‘Board meeting’ as one of the most important of the year. The meeting never involves any Board members, only ever has two agenda items and always takes place at a time and location of my choosing. It Read more…
Are you a Social Leader? A couple of weeks ago I finished researching and writing a chapter for a new book entitled ‘SocialCEO’s – how to be a leader in the Social Age’. The new book edited by Damian Corbett is to be published next year by Bloomsbury Business. It looks at Read more…
If the opening gambit of yesterdays key note speech at ACEVO’s ‘From Surviving to Thriving’ conference was anything to go by, then charity Leaders across the UK have a significant amount of work to do over the coming months and years to help restore trust and confidence in the leadership Read more…