Overcome your crisis mind-set with techniques from the Positive Leadership toolbox. By Armin Forstner, Managing Partner, Serrano 99 Management Consulting, Publisher of Positive & Mindful Leader Magazine Déjà vu. When I am talking to clients, business partners, friends, and family these days, it really does feel like a repeat of Q1 in 2009. Back then,…
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Positive action tool kit for the coming weeks By Declan Noone & Armin Forstner We are locked in. Every one of us is trying to figure out the new normal, a space between family time, work time and me time all confined within the walls of your home. On top of this, your social media threads,…
By Declan Noone Fear is one of our most primal emotions which so heavily impacts our survival instincts. It has helped us evolve and survive as a species and as such is an important influencer of our evolution. It does however, have a significant impact on our physiology and consequently our behaviours. The conversations I…
How to quickly dissolve negative emotions for calmer workplaces. By Declan Noone In her book ‘10:10:10 – A Life Transforming Idea’, Suzy Welch introduced 10:10:10 as a device that helps you own your decisions while making your life more deliberate. As a device, it forces you to come to terms with what is important to…
The systematic failure of organisations to enable employees to use their knowledge and experience to understand what is implicitly required. By Declan Noone There is one issue that has arisen multiple times over the last number of years as I have moved from life in the military to life as a management consultant with Serrano…
Are leaders still needed in the age of AI? By Declan Noone According to a joint study by Oracle and research firm Future Workplace ‘as many as 64%of workers say they would trust a robot over their manager[1]’. This study examined responses from 8,300 employees across 10 countries. Are leaders still needed? This appears to…
Discussing our place in the digital world. By Declan Noone Change is a given. In fact, in our personal and professional lives, change is an essential catalyst for positive growth and development. But it’s no longer just the (increasingly breakneck) pace of change that we must contend with, but the nature of technological change impacting…
A renewed call for a paradigm shift in leadership By Armin Forstner More than three years on from our initial post about Brexit, where we predicted that we will enter into a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) dominated period of time. At that point we were hopeful that a new type of leader might…
Enabling positive change By Declan Noone Social Impact, until recently, was seen as a ‘nice to have’rather than a ‘must do’. It had a light touch and light investment of time and resources by businesses. If nothing else the events of the last 18 months have propelled social impact to the front of brand and business strategies.…
By Declan Noone “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – the 14th Dalai Lama A number of conversations we have had with young leaders over the last number of weeks, has provided some fascinating insights into what they identify as a leader and as success. While they are at a stage in their…
