Be inspired

You don’t tend to act unless you’re inspired. And time is precious. So here are ideas and thoughts worth making a little time for.

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Understanding and overcoming procrastination

Fuschia Sirois is a professor at Durham University’s Department of Psychology. She is particularly interested in how procrastination, perfectionism, loneliness and traits linked to negative mood adversely affect health, and the qualities that play a role in improving well-being.

Estimates suggest that anywhere between 15% and 25% of the adult population procrastinate regularly. So what this means is that about one in five members of your team are going to be prone to procrastination.

Fuschia Sirois, Professor at Durham University’s Department of Psychology

My role is to develop the next generation of leaders and get out of their ways so they can have success.

Jennifer Nuckles, Chairperson & CEO at R-Zero

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Jennifer Nuckles, CEO at R-Zero

Jennifer Nuckles is Chairperson & CEO at R-Zero, the biosafety technology company dedicated to making indoor spaces safer, healthier and more productive.

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The importance of being cognitively flexible in a world full of distractions

Naomi de Barra is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist who is excited about bringing great psychology to the workplace, to make businesses and people more productive. She has almost 20 years of business experience in FMCG, Pharmaceuticals, Recruitment and Healthcare. Her areas of interest are Neurodiversity, Leadership and Selection and Assessment.

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Petr Baron, CEO of tbi bank

Petr Baron is CEO of tbi, the challenger bank that is one of the most profitable in Southeastern Europe. In this episode, Petr talks about:

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How well are you harnessing complexity?

Now more than ever, firms need agility to navigate challenges. Tim Sullivan, former editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press, talks about complex adaptive systems, which are characterised by the relationship between heterogeneous agents making decisions, interaction between these agents, and the emergence of a global system. Organisations are examples of this.

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How well are you harnessing complexity?

Our problem-solving skills improve when there is a high level of intellectual curiosity and a combination of different skills and experiences...

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Is it stress or microstress that you need to manage?

When it comes to stress, we tend to think about big challenges and setbacks. However, managing microstress is just as - if not more - important. These are small, difficult bumps in the road that we often dismiss as trivial, but they may be more significant than we think.

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Bothered about the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting? Help your managers to use the human touch.

"A company is not really much more than the people that make up that company" says Ambre Soubiran, CEO of Kaiko, in the Manageable Conversations podcast, where leaders talk frankly about themselves and organisational issues.

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Are you holding yourself back?

"The day you decide to stop learning, you will start dying" says Richard di Benedetto, President of Aetna International, in an early episode of Manageable Conversations, the podcast featuring leaders who talk frankly about managers, teams, themselves and organisational issues they face.

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Preventing burnout: managers in the frame again

Gallup’s State of Global Workplace 2022 Report has just been published, along with a letter from Gallup’s CEO, Jim Clifton. He writes about one of the largest studies on burnout which finds that 76% of us at work will suffer burnout at some point.

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Coachmania and Tulipmania

Over the past few years I've had the opportunity to speak to a large number of executives transitioning from corporate life to the gig economy. They were eager to pivot from being a leader or manager in an organisation to an external coach to organisations. They wanted to pick my brain and our discussions made me wonder about the parallel with Tulipmania.

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Evaluating your next big career move

When you have a choice, how do you evaluate that next move? I've enjoyed talking about this issue with a few CEOs recently. After exploring some potential impediments to making the right move, I conclude below with a five-factor approach to evaluating it.

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ESG progress demands great managers

What on earth am I talking about, connecting progress with Environmental, Social and Governance issues with having great leaders and managers in your organisation? For each of the three domains of ESG, investing in managers will be critical to success.

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Been a victim of the great training robbery?

Harvard Professor Michael Beer and his colleagues used the 'great training robbery' phrase around five years ago. Despite huge amounts being spent on learning and development globally ($370bn in 2019 alone), they said companies

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Four reasons CEOs don't act to improve people management

A question cropped up for me while pondering the very high levels of employee engagement enjoyed by some firms but not others. According to Gallup's assessment of exceptional workplaces, they enjoy employee engagement levels of 70% compared with the global average of 21% and still quite impressive relative to the US average of 35%. This means that such firms with the highest engagement levels have 14 engaged employees for every actively disengaged employee, or over 13x the global average.

Conversations

Luca Schnettler, CEO of Qumata

In this episode of Manageable Conversations, Luca Schnettler, CEO of Qumata, the Insurtech scaleup, talks about:

If you don't believe in yourself, you should not be a leader. You should be led if you don't believe.

Luca Schnettler, CEO of Qumata

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Jennifer Nuckles, CEO at R-Zero

Jennifer Nuckles is Chairperson & CEO at R-Zero, the biosafety technology company dedicated to making indoor spaces safer, healthier and more productive.

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Petr Baron, CEO of tbi bank

Petr Baron is CEO of tbi, the challenger bank that is one of the most profitable in Southeastern Europe. In this episode, Petr talks about:

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Dominic Allon, CEO of Pipedrive

In this episode of Manageable Conversations, Dominic Allon, CEO of Pipedrive, the global unicorn CRM, talks about:

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Petra Felgen, Managing Director, CEWE UK & Ireland

In this episode of Manageable Conversations, Petra Felgen, Managing Director of CEWE UK and Ireland, talks about:

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Chris Rowley, CEO of The Risk Advisory Group

In this episode, Chris Rowley, CEO of The Risk Advisory Group, talks about:

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Georgina (Twink) Field, CEO & Founder of White Marble

In this episode, Georgina (Twink) Field, CEO and Founder of White Marble, the investment marketing consultancy, talks about:

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Robert Pickering, Ex-CEO of Cazenove

What's a no-nonsense leadership style and how do incentives affect culture?

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Ruth Kelly, Chair of Thames Freeport and Water UK

In this episode, Ruth Kelly, Chair of Thames Freeport and Water UK, and ex-Secretary of State for Education and Skills, talks about:

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Ezechi Britton MBE, incoming CEO of the UK's Centre for Finance, Innovation, and Technology

How are organisations and investors doing managers a disservice?

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The benefits of being a connector within organisations

Martin Kilduff is a professor at UCL School of Management. In his research, he focusses on the importance of social network connections between people and the ways those connections help or hinder in their job performance, career, and their lives more generally.

Social network brokerage means connecting across people who are otherwise disconnected and looking for those ideas that are important in organisational life as well as in everyday life.

Martin Kilduff, Professor of Organisational Behavior at University College London

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Understanding and overcoming procrastination

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Celebrating neurodiversity and the power of small changes

Over the past decade Michael Barton has educated and inspired thousands of people on the power of neurodiversity. He is autistic himself and has written three books on the subject and contributed to numerous others. He focuses on the positive aspects of autism, relating its traits to those displayed by some of the most successful people in history.

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The importance of being cognitively flexible in a world full of distractions

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The power of unpredictable brilliance in leadership

Itay Talgam is an orchestral conductor who now teaches leadership to Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits and universities. He speaks at conferences around the world, including TED, Google's Zeitgeist, and the World Economic Forum at Davos. Drawing on his experience as a 'conductor of people' he strives to create human harmony through cooperation.

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Understanding and bridging generational differences in teams

Dr Eliza Filby is a writer, speaker and researcher who specialises in what she calls 'Generational Intelligence', helping organisations understand generational shifts within politics, society and the workplace. Her writing has been published in The Times, The Mail Spectator, Guardian and the Financial Times. She published her first book 'God and Mrs Thatcher' in 2014 and is currently writing about ageing in the 21st century.

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Exploring the nature and power of a coaching style

Farley Thomas is the Co-Founder of Manageable. He is also a CEO coach and adviser. He's run global business units and functions at one of the world's biggest banks. In this guide, he shares his views on why a coaching style is important, what it is and how to acquire it.

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Measuring and fostering diversity in organisations

Suhair Khan works within the international creative industries to drive meaningful impact. In over a decade at Google, her work has spanned arts and culture, early stage product design, sustainability, strategy and innovation. She has led global projects with artists, cultural institutions, fashion brands and the creative sector for Google Arts & Culture. In 2020, she founded the non-profit platform openended.design to support artists, designers, and creative technologists.

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Practical tips and techniques to thrive, rather than survive

Keith Goddard is an Occupational Psychologist and Sports & Exercise Psychologist. He uses his expertise to help people, teams and organisations achieve extraordinary things - be it in the boardroom or in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. He's regularly called upon to develop and deliver well-being, resilience and change programmes.

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The three stages on the journey to becoming expert

Roger Kneebone is an author and Imperial College professor who directs its Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science. He researches what experts from different fields can learn from one another. His first career was as a surgeon. He then changed direction twice: he became a GP and then an academic.

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Building Trust Quickly

The evidence suggests that the longer we know people or brands, the more we trust them. A study of the 100 most trusted brands in the USA found that only two were created in the past 20 years. Time is of the essence when it comes to trust, but what if we don’t have decades to build trust? We need hacks.

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Learning Effectively

When you really need to learn, how do you go about this? And if you help others learn, what really helps?

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Making Decisions

We’re all experienced decision makers. We make tens of thousands of decisions a day, often without thinking.

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Correcting Predictions

The following four-step approach to correcting errors in prediction is proposed by experts in decision-making and judgement. The approach is illustrated with two examples.

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Boosting Wisdom

This exercise will help you and your team think more wisely by using the power of psychological distance.

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Fostering Healthy Dissent

Groups tend to make better decisions when people can express divergent views. When we don’t conform and choose to dissent, it’s usually not because we don’t care what others think or because we want to be difficult. We usually dissent because we want to be useful to the groups we belong to. It’s because we care a lot about the group.

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Personal Growth Framework

This framework offers a way to clarify and manifest your ambitions. It helps you to say yes to the right things and no to the rest. It helps to create momentum to fulfil these ambitions and creates opportunities to celebrate your achievements.

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Getting Ahead Of The Curve

Use a mathematical concept to get ahead of the curve.