We regularly produce articles on subjects that we feel will interest our clients and potential customers. It is our way of both offering you something genuinely useful, a core value of our business, and a way of you getting to understand more about our style and how we think.
Below is a selection of articles we have produced in the past. More will be added from time to time.
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Leading with passion and energy
08/01/10
As we slowly and falteringly emerge from recession, now more than ever organisations need leaders who, whilst living with the paradoxes and complexities of organisational life, can create a compelling sense of urgency and direction.
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Who can you trust to kick start your business?
07/01/10
Do you find yourself surrounded by managers when your business is crying out for leaders?
Does the responsibility for moving your business forward rest on too few shoulders?
Are your key people technically solid, but lacking in drive, urgency, influence and presence?
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Building leadership presence and impact
26/11/09
Let’s start by asking some impertinent and personal questions:
o Is the impact you have on other people helping or hindering your career?
o Do you have an innate ability to connect with and inspire confidence in others?
o Do you have the air and authority of a natural leader?
o Is the persona that you project one that inspires others to readily follow?
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Free Lunchtime Learning Seminar
18/01/10
Coaching as a critical leadership capability.
This inspirational free lunchtime seminar will be presented by Martin Gillespie, an executive development expert and experienced business coach with 25 years people and organisational development experience in major corporations.
If you have not seen Martin speak before, here is your chance to do so for free. No strings attached. No sales pitch.
Simply invite six or more of your senior managers, book the room and we will do the rest.
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Communication skills for leaders
28/09/09
The facility to present effectively, in both formal and informal situations, is a key business and life skill. Mastering the ability to convey information and ideas, to persuade and influence, to energise and to inspire, and to do all this with presence, assurance and confidence, will have a hugely beneficial impact on both your career prospects and self esteem.
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Leading in a complex and changing world
25/09/09
The work of Ralph Stacey and colleagues, on the challenges of leading organisations in an increasingly complex world, provides a number of practical insights which can help us as business leaders trying to navigate through increasingly difficult times.
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New leaders: We don’t need another hero
25/06/09
That moment when someone is called upon to be a leader of a business, or even a department or function, is a step change for which nothing in their previous career has fully prepared them. The manner in which they negotiate this transition is essential, both for the individual in terms of their ongoing career and personal health, and for the organisation in terms of business continuity and profitable growth. It is essential, therefore, that appropriate support is provided at this stage, and this most usually takes the form of intensive one to one coaching.
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Achieving superior performance
19/06/09
At Inspire we advocate that all learning and development investment must be aligned specifically and systematically with the strategic aspirations of your organisation. We work with individuals and groups to help them identify the capabilities they require to play their part in delivering your organisation’s vision. We help guide organisations in focusing their development investment on key individuals who, through both their own efforts and that of their teams, are capable of being the engine of the desired growth.
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