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November 12, 2024

Mindful leadership: Boost team wellbeing & performance

Now more than ever, leaders face unprecedented challenges in supporting team wellbeing. Recent studies paint a stark picture: work-related stress, anxiety, and depression account for 49% of all new or long-standing health conditions in UK workplaces, with an estimated 17.9 million working days lost annually due to these issues. As leaders, we must ask ourselves: how can we better support our teams while maintaining organisational performance?  Understanding mindful leadership  At its core, mindfulness is about living in the present moment and focusing on what we can control rather than what […]
August 3, 2023

The power of assertiveness: learning to say no to your boss

The fear of saying no to our managers at work often weighs heavily on our minds. As employees, we strive to be liked, and seen as productive and valued team members, which can lead to a habit of saying ‘yes’ to every request that comes our way. However, constantly taking on more than we can handle leads to overwhelming workloads, increased stress, and less ability to prioritise effectively.   In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of assertiveness and discuss strategies for learning to say no to your boss in a […]
April 1, 2022

Strategic Leadership

How to become a strategic leader As you progress in your career you often need to move from being an operational leader to a strategic leader. But the word ‘strategy’ can instil a feeling of fear into many managers. It may be because it sounds grander than it actually is, so we thought we’d ask Brenda Etchells, our associate and specialist in strategic planning, to help us de-mystify strategy. So what is strategy? In essence, a strategy is having a plan of how you will achieve your goals, objectives, and […]