by Alison Reid | Jul 30, 2018 | Leadership
I loved reading Matthew Syed’s recently published children’s book, You are awesome, an empowering read with the premise that you can be brilliant at anything if you practise. I wish I’d had this book when I was younger. As a child, I was what you...
by Alison Reid | Apr 6, 2018 | Leadership
On a particularly long car journey recently, I was listening to a TED radio hour podcast and came across an interview with Jane Poynter, a scientist who took part in the Biosphere 2 experiment in the early 1990s. Poynter was one of 8 scientists who volunteered to shut...
by Alison Reid | Feb 27, 2018 | Leadership
What if I were to tell you that there are leaders missing in your organisation? That there are voices, ideas, opinions and talent that are unheard and unseen? I’m not talking about a headcount issue or a rash of absenteeism, but leaders who aren’t showing up to their...
by Alison Reid | Jan 23, 2018 | Leadership
“We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking.” Michael Neill I spent a large part of the weekend digging up the old flowerbeds in our new garden. This involved extracting more or less one species of plant...
by Alison Reid | Dec 8, 2017 | Leadership
As talented individuals progress through their career, there is often an expectation that they will transition seamlessly from management to leadership. Yet what has helped these individuals become good managers is not what they need as leaders. In my work with...
