Authentic Leadership
Leadership shapes the performance of any organisation. Who you are and what you do determines how successfully you lead and others follow.
Leadership shapes the performance of any organisation. Who you are and what you do determines how successfully you lead and others follow.
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?
Acorn have been appointed to support a senior leadership team from Kier Construction on the construction of HMP Glasgow, new modern and fit-for-purpose prison will replace the largest prison in Scotland.
Acorn are delighted to be working once again with NIS Integrated Engineering, the North West-based advanced engineers who are part of the NIS Group which includes NSG Environmental.
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.
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’’.
For the last three years, Acorn Coaching and Development has hosted an annual gathering of senior leaders from the UK division of an international corporate. There was a need for the company to leverage the expertise and latent leadership within its leadership team to increase the rate and impact of change to keep ahead of external changes and emerging markets.
Faster, better, more of it! Clients frequently tell us they are under increasing pressure to do more with less; to deliver increasing productivity with ever diminishing resources. In this article we share current key challenges and issues to consider and offer some practical steps you can take to enable your business to succeed through tough times.
In the latest in our leadership series we focus on future-proofing your leadership capability from within, expand on some of the financial advantages to promoting internally, and suggest more ways to develop your high potential future leaders, making sure that your company doesn’t get caught out when the status quo is challenged.
UK firms need to be in a position of strength to thrive rather than survive, and high productivity is crucial to competing in the coming new world. Mike Pezet shares his view on how effective coaching and development helps line managers build their understanding, confidence and ability to lead and engage employees.