Welcome to The Leadership Lens.
Here you’ll find practical, people-first insights you can actually use – plus free tools and downloads to support both your People Strategy and the day-to-day reality of putting it into practice.
From leadership and culture to performance and wellbeing, these articles and resources are here to make the complex feel doable, so you can focus on what really matters: helping your people (and your business) thrive.
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Leadership and Harassment: Time to Act
What real leadership looks like when tackling workplace harassment
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Engagement Action Plans
Asking people about what’s really going on for them can feel tricky. We often utter the words ‘How are you?’ without really listening to what the other person says (or doesn’t say). Yet we know that if we can address
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Reducing emotional anxiety and rebuilding confidence – Webinar
How to support employees as they return to work
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Remote Working and Wellbeing
Remote working is becoming a very real way of life for more and more employees so we need to consider its impact. Within the last week alone, I've listened to a podcast with Louise Puddifoot, heard from my business coach
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Putting Your Values to the Test
You, Your Brand, Your Values was an event organised by Howard Feather for Natwest Women in Business yesterday and I was proud to be part of it by talking with 50 other business owners about workplace culture. A great question was asked
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Trans-forming the workplace
As you may already know, I am passionate about creating workplaces where all people can thrive. That opportunity is created by great leadership. Here I ask you to consider what you understand by gender equality. It has become more than just a
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Standing up to your inner critic
We often talk in terms that suggest events CAUSE our emotional and behavioural reactions, for example, “She made me angry”. We are passive in the process, victims of circumstance. However, this completely misses the crucial role of cognition in determining
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Too many hats for owners to wear well?
As a business owner you have a lot on your plate — all the hats to wear. We attempt to juggle the numerous roles involved in running a business and balance that with life. At times it can all feel
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Where People & Processes Meet: The Human Angle
Lisa and James are discussing motivation problems in the organisation he is working with.
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Protecting the Mental Health of the Good Eggs
It is always worth identifying the 'bad egg' and addressing the issues. It's not easy but it's essential for the wellbeing, engagement and performance of your whole team.
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The Human Perspective of Business
Our brains have a limited capacity; fill them with day-to-day emotional stuff and there isn't much scope for being able to focus on learning.
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The Formula for Creating a Winning Team
In July I wrote about how sport can inform business, inspired by the nation's passion for the sporting events happening at that time, and by my new experience training for a tug-of-war competition. On Saturday the big day arrived and
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Leadership by Virtue; are people following?
Despite the millions of pounds spent on developing leadership, I often wonder what difference it makes to real people in everyday work situations. Well-intentioned managers read books and attend traditional courses, intending to learn the necessary skills and the model
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Empathy in the workplace; The Missing Link
The skill of being able see something from another person’s viewpoint is crucial when communicating effectively.
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Are you making the most of the Happiness Advantage?
After working with two clients this week I was struck by the similarity in their thinking about the way they see the world. They have experienced life in a way that they expected, following unhelpful patterns based on their belief
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How Sport Can Inform Business
Were you glued to the television on Sunday feeling your heart racing, sitting on the edge of your seat, cheering on the sport of your choice? Whether it was the Netball World Cup, Tour de France, Cricket World Cup, Wimbledon
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Workspace Design & Employee Wellbeing
Wellbeing is a big deal for companies. A place where we spend many hours in the week has a very real and substantial impact on our mental health. If employees are not functioning at their best, there are implications for lost
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How Leaders Can Cut Anxiety In Half
Anxiety communicates to us that something isn't right. Our emotional brain, operating as our guidance system to keep us safe, becomes aroused when we experience something that feels uncomfortable. This can be helpful if we tune in to the feelings
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The Impact of Mindset on Outcomes
"Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms - the ability to choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstance, to choose one's way." I love this quote by Viktor Frankl from his book, 'A
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Culture Matters: The Research Agrees
CULTURE is important, right? It's mentioned a lot when identifying the great companies to work for. It tells us about our identity at work. It's what we attribute successes to. And it defines what we want our company to achieve,
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Leadership for Thriving Teams
The annual cost to employers of having people in the workplace experiencing mental health problems is between £33 billion - £42 billion. Over half of this comes from presenteeism when employees are less productive at work, and this figure doesn't
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Exam Success: A Parents’ Guide
So many people I’ve worked with recently are enduring the roller coaster of emotions that come with exams. Children learn from a young age that they have the potential to fail. And with age comes the sense of significance; if
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‘Beauty is an inside job’ in Vale Life
What do we think of when we think ‘beautiful’? Thankfully, beauty in 2018 is diverse. The old rules no longer apply. There is a movement to celebrate uniqueness and reality in place of ‘fake’ appearances. Social media isn’t helping though in