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How has leadership changed in recent years?

As little as a decade ago, it was assumed that effective leaders needed to be charismatic individuals with a strong vision for their organisations. However, the latest business school research as well as practice suggests that a different style of…

How can we know that training will genuinely make a difference?

Most organisations are besieged by consultants offering to train them in various skills such as emotional intelligence, leadership, selling, negotiation and so on. But how can we know if any given training intervention will actually work or not? It’s important…

What does good leadership look like?

The field of leadership can at times appear confusing or even contradictory. There are many different models and theories of leadership (e.g. transformational, transactional, charismatic, authentic, etc). So when it comes to developing leaders, what model should we use? We…