From the desk of Caspar:
Leading in the Future
What does the future of Leadership look like?
What are the essentials skill that current and aspiring leaders need to sharpen, hone and focus on?
Empathy has to be one of the top three, if not the top one. There is research that agrees, but how does this land when these ideas collides with the leaders of today.
Here’s one conversation I had recently:
“Isn’t Be more Human all soft and fluffy? Where’s the targets, where’s the numbers, what about driving performance”
Some feedback from a friend who recently picked up both the Big Bold Goals and Be More Human books and scanned the covers.
I gently pointed out he’d recently stepped down from his role due to burnout and had a couple of marriages in the rearview mirror.
I pressed further: did those experiences feel soft or hard?
The world doesn’t need more performance management.
It’s already got that in abundance. I’ve yet to meet a business or organisation that needs to dial that up. And that’s not to say we shouldn’t have targets and work towards them. We should and they are a key part of driving towards audacious goals.
What’s scarce though is the understanding of what drives us as humans.
What’s scarce is the conversation that we need to equip people with the skills to thrive at home and at work
What’s scarce is the leaders who are championing empathy and understanding.
One more performance metric? I don’t think so.
One more conversation about what really drives us as humans? Yes please.
What does leading in the future look like? I think it starts with empathy and the powerful realisation that people only do things for their reasons and not your reasons.
Finding Humour When you need it
One of our family values is laugh. This made me laugh this week (for readers outside the UK, as a nation, we’ve managed to run low on fuel (gas to Americans). The BBC managed to get this superb trolling in…
Empathy: The Leadership Super Power
"Far from being a soft approach it (empathy) can drive significant business"
Understanding that people only do things for their reasons and not your reasons is one of the most impactful realisations any leader or aspiring leader can have.
It is the gateway to entering their world and helping them achieve what's important to them and where that aligns with the mission you and your team are on.
Development Programmes
At Big Bold Goals, on the back of the success of our introductory workshops, we’re Beta launching our Development Programmes. There are three different programmes:
Programme 1 - Leadership and Teamwork Fundamentals
Programme 2 - Self Leadership and Skills Development
Programme 3 - Building Resilient & Adaptable Teams
What problems do each of these solve?
These are the challenges that our clients say they address.
Each programme runs for 3 months and can be delivered in-person or virtually. Typically they are for between 12 to 20 people in each cohort and most organisations opt to run them for senior leaders or aspiring leaders as part of their top talent programmes.
Here’s what our clients say the benefits are.
Does your organisation need to invest in your people? Get in touch and we’d love to help.
Focus on what’s right, not what’s wrong
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Thought for the day
Over 90% of what we do is by habit.
What can you stop doing?
What can you start doing?
What can you do more of?
