How I work: Insight earns its place when you use it.
Understanding yourself is useful. What you do with it is where the work begins: influencing others, working as a team and turning intentions into action.
Leadership starts and never finishes.
Work on the relationships
Your impact depends on people beyond your own role: colleagues in other functions, the people who set priorities, the team looking to you for direction. So I work on the relationships leadership happens through, not just individual skills.
Start from a real situation
Bring something that matters, try another approach and look honestly at the result. Programmes, coaching and the Impact Circle all keep that link to day-to-day work.
Let research sharpen the questions
My PhD research looks at the roles leaders play and how they work with stakeholders. In practice, that means recognising the different demands of a leadership role, rather than assuming one approach suits every situation.
Work with a real situation, not an ideal version of it.
Challenge
Choose where you want more impact, in your own work.
Experiment
Try a different approach in a real situation.
Reflect
Look at what happened, and question the assumptions behind it.
Grow
Recognise your progress and decide what to build on next.
A useful tool opens a conversation.
Floor and her team delivers the training in a fun, interactive and personable way with actions and outcomes to build on over time.
Management Drives gives a team a shared language for what drives each person, and shows where misunderstandings start.
I use it alongside 360-degree feedback and Lencioni’s team framework, and choose the mix to suit the people in the room. It is not a fixed sequence.
In the Impact Circle, a self-assessment shows how you divide your attention across the 8 strategic roles of the middle manager in stakeholder management. The 8 roles come from my PhD research.
See how I work, on your own situation.
Tell me what you want to change. On a 30-minute call we look at it together, the way I would in a session.