Authentic Leadership
Leadership shapes the performance of any organisation. Who you are and what you do determines how successfully you lead and others follow.
Update on the NWS RACER Programme
We’re at the end of the second year of Acorn’s involvement in supporting the Repository Asset Care Enhancements and Remediation (RACER) programme for Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) and there’s plenty of positive progress to report.
Bid Winning and Joint Ventures
Acorn’s experience of working with joint ventures and bid winning teams spans over 20-years and stems back to our early involvement within PFI’s across sectors like rail, construction and defence. More recently we have worked within the UK’s nuclear sector, helping companies with various bids for Sellafield.
The 30-Minute Meeting Challenge
How can we reduce meeting time, keep focus and ensure the right people are present and engaged? Should you even attend and stay in a meeting?
Leadership White Paper – Belief
This second paper by Mike Pezet shifts focus to programme design, delivery and the programme ‘ingredients’ which Acorn believe enables learning to transfer into tangible, productive workplace action.
Leadership White Paper – Development of Purposeful Leaders
Whether leaders are ‘born’ or ‘made’ is an age-old debate. When people are asked this question, generally the response is ‘leaders are made’. Ask whether they see themselves as a leader and the response is often ‘I’m in the role but wouldn’t say I’m the ‘leader’’.
Acorn appointed to support Sellafield HAWTT programme
Following-on from the successes of our leadership and team coaching work at the Sellafield and Low Level Waste Repository sites in west Cumbria, we are delighted to have been appointed to work with the Higher Active Waste Thermal Treatment (HAWTT) project.
Hybrid Working: A review of current research
Once in a generation, we have the opportunity to reimagine how we work. Thanks to the development and extensive roll-out and take-up of COVID-19 vaccines, the coming year presents such an opportunity.
Official Loch Ness Kayaking Record Achieved
In November 2020, Acorn’s Keith Longney and long-standing friend Peter Hart set a new official Guinness World Record for kayaking a two man kayak the length of Loch Ness, setting a new record time
Impact – a White Paper from Acorn Coaching
In this fifth and final paper on Acorn’s guide to Team Coaching we consider Impact and Learning and their role in shaping team performance. If Primary Purpose describes the planned destination, then Impact is about sensing and adapting to reality as the journey progresses.