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The message to leaders, managers and other stakeholders could not be clearer. If you want to improve organisational performance, then raise your people’s level of engagement. Several reports present compelling evidence that employee engagement is the...

I absolutely dread networking. No matter how many times I’ve been sent to industry events to hand out business cards and pitch products, I find myself clinging to the outside of the room, avoiding eye contact, and walking alone between seminars. The...

A client asked us what we thought the future of leadership was, and how we would go about developing new leaders, now, for what will be required in the future.
We said we didn’t know.
“But” we said, “if you change the question to ‘what do you do when you don’t know what to do?’ then that is a very resonant question”; that has implications for the future of leadership, and it is something about which Maynard Leigh knows a lot....

Management in its earliest forms was all about control. Inflexible structures, rigid procedures and regulated monitoring in order to command and contain workers.
Fortunately, business has been moving away from that paradigm toward a more flexible supportive style for some time; too slowly for some, reluctantly for others. But now the pandemic has demanded an acceleration in the change of management practices...