I really don’t agree with a decision, but I need to lead my team through it. What do I do?

When leaders really don’t agree with a decision that’s driving change, but have to lead their team through it, there can be a feeling of conflict. Asking ourselves a few questions and exploring what’s behind those feelings can help us to support our team better.

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Five ways to help make conversations for change better for everyone involved

There’s a heap of change happening in organisations right now, from mergers or acquisitions to restructures and redundancies. From conversations I’ve had over the last few weeks, here are a few ideas to help leaders make discussions around change easier for everyone involved.

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This approach could have helped to prevent the UK's Post Office scandal

The long-running scandal at the UK’s Post Office, where a technology solution didn’t work as planned, resulting in the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of sub-postmasters, could have been avoided. There are so many lessons to learn from this but a people-first approach to change could have averted the worst of this disaster. Here are just a few straightforward principles the leadership could have followed for a very different result…

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