Trusted Leader Blog


Insights for leaders who know leadership isn’t about doing more. It’s about who you are being.

 

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Why the World Needs Trustworthy Business Leaders More than Ever

One of my darkest times as an entrepreneur was winning the contract to undertake all of the audiovisual requirements at Fashion Week. It involved filming and editing 57 fashion shows in 4 days and creating a dedicated television network to play...

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Why your Awesome “Culture” makes me Vomit

For over a year, I’ve been running monthly executive roundtables with CEOs, entrepreneurs and executives. On a couple of occasions I’ve had two...

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3 Strategies High-Trust Companies Use to Avoid Fatiguing Employees with Change

The pace of change within most organisations is accelerating. It’s now commonplace for companies to be restructuring, changing their business model,...

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Are you Relying too Heavily on Employee Engagement Surveys?

Around the world, there’s growing discontent about the ineffectiveness of employee engagement surveys. Over the last fifteen years, employee...

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Why Fulfilling People’s Tribal Needs Improves Business Results

Thousands of years ago, when humans roamed the African savannah, it was in our best interests to live in tribes. Being part of a tribe allowed us to...

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Beware the Egocentric CEO’s Vision

A few months back, I wrote an article called Are you Limiting your Company Vision?

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How to Communicate a Changing Vision to Your Team

Jane leads a team of 30 software programmers for a large insurance company. After months of slavishly working on a new sales tool to promote to car...

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7 Trust Behaviours of Effective Leaders

One of the most common complaints from employees revolves around whether they believe their organisation can be trusted.

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5 Critical Actions to Help Employees Understand Your Organisation

On a regular basis, I conduct roundtables with CEOs and executives about how many of their employees understand the company vision. A common theme...

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5 Visual Indicators of a Suboptimal Culture

You know what it’s like. You walk into a company for a meeting and something feels off. The receptionist is rude, staff seem flustered and the place...

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