Behaviour change happens most effectively when you

a) Have Better Knowledge

b) Change Beliefs

c) Develop Skills

According to the May 2024 research from the University of Pennsylvania, if you chose any of these, you’d be wrong.

How many of you filled in the word perfect without even thinking about?

Perfect. That’s a proper dangerous word.

Held up as being a worthy ideal.

Here’s the challenge with that. It’s not a good thing to aim at.

Harvard Business Review combed through four decades of research, some 95 different studies covering 25,000 people on perfectionism.

Some findings stood out:

What are the behaviours that define the Big Bold Mindset, a different way of thinking?

Let’s explore some defining characteristics I have observed from the many leaders I have worked with, spoken to, and studied. These characteristics make up the Big Bold Mindset which I want to set out and explore here.

As you read each characteristic, perhaps reflect and score yourself on a scale of 1-10. It is these characteristics that I invite you to reflect on and think about how you can embrace these:

Fortune magazine run an annual 100 Best Places to Work For list that surveys employees and ranks them based on a view of what a great employee experience looks like — measured in terms of high levels of trust, respect, credibility, fairness, pride, and camaraderie.

The statistics were similar year to year. Eighty-one percent of employees at companies ranked as “great” described their office environments as fun.

Harvard Business Review last week published a very powerful and thought provoking piece building on research from PwC’s 27th Annual Global CEO Survey, where 45% of CEOs said they do not believe their companies would survive more than a decade if they remain on their current path.

It focused on 4 actions CEO’s should be taking. In brief they are:

In the past year alone, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into various aspects of business and society has been perhaps one of the most talked about shifts in the way we work, and one of the hottest questions when it comes to thinking about how we should approach leadership and the impact of AI in the future.

It’s hard to avoid AI these days.

What’s harder to understand is the impact it will have on humans, how we operate as individuals and how we operate in teams.

There are some data points though that might give us some clues.

A couple of weeks back, the Economist ran a fascinating article titled “What Tennis Reveals about AI’s impact on human behaviour”.

An Event Booker's Guide to Making a Good Choice of Leadership Speaker for your Kick-Off Meeting.

You and your team all meet in person once, perhaps twice a year. It could be a senior leadership offsite, a high performers programme or an all-staff programme. Your time together is highly valuable. So how do you make the right choice?

Yesterday, I was in the audience listening to the brilliant Professor Nick Lane, Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at UCL.

The topic: “What is a feeling?”

It’s such an interesting question to get beneath the surface of how we operate as human beings. The research in this space continues to reveal new insights…

On the back of my latest book, The Big Bold Mindset® I’m thrilled to say that the new talk is being well received by audiences across the UK, Europe and globally. The talk title can be flexed to meet your specific event themes, but the core message is:

The Big Bold Mindset - Why You Can’t Navigate a New World Using an Old Set of Charts.

From talks in 2024, this has been adapted to fit conference themes such as …