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The Art of Delegation: How to Win with a Delegating Leadership Style

Delegation is a core leadership skill and key to the ‘Delegating Leadership Style’ If you can’t effectively delegate, you will hit a point where you are become totally overloaded and you’ll become ineffective. But few companies teach people how to effectively delegate. It’s one of those things that everyone assumes you pick up as you…

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Why did the Royal Marines relearn how to shoot?

In this article, I am going to introduce the concept of double-loop learning, which I was taught by Damian Hughes during the Barefoot Coaching course. I hope to be able to bring it to life using a couple of examples – one in a personal and one in an organisational context. Why do you need…

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The Space Shuttle and the Horse’s Backside: How context shapes everything.

If you read any articles on LinkedIn, the majority of them will simplify leadership. One of my favourite lines is that “Leadership is all about empowering people and just letting them get on with it”. I thought about this and asked myself the question, “why do we have command and control then?” If leadership is…