Leadership

Understanding employees and what drives them to be productive is a difficult challenge most businesses today are faced with. According to research reports, millennials are increasingly ambitious but lack the motivation to progress in a…

As leaders we all know that feeling of not wanting to go to a difficult meeting and that we’d rather be anywhere else! It’s par for the job, so we must model calm, high standards and belief in the organisation’s purpose to keep the team on…

By Louisa Rochford The tech industry and Silicon Valley have had their fair share of ups and downs in a matter of years – in the last year alone, data breaches have felt like a daily occurrence. From Facebook to Quora to…

When you find yourself in a new city for business, deciding on the best place to hold a meeting can often feel overwhelming. With seemingly endless possibilities, but often limited time and limited knowledge of the area, it can be difficult…

Gillian Murray has been Chief Executive of Pilotlight since 2013. Her previous roles include managing a language teaching and training business in Italy, and acting as country director for Voluntary Service Overseas in Laos PDR. In this…

Rob Orr is Executive Director at Virgin Media Business, one of the UK’s leading communications providers, responsible for leading the enterprise, public sector, wholesale, SME and SI Channel businesses. He has over 20 years of experience in…

Why a trend towards enterprise leadership could challenge the ‘one leader’ model.

Who is the leader who has had the greatest (positive) impact on you? What did they do, how did they behave to have an impact on you? What made the difference?

It goes without saying that an employee should do their job; after all, that is what you are paying them for. But the difference between just ‘doing their job’ and truly caring about their work comes down to how the employee feels about the…

Just like a ship has a radar to detect what’s going on around it, as a leader you need to have your radar out to notice what’s happening in your inner world, within yourself, and the outer world of people and environments.