Part of Leading Edge’s success in leadership, change and team development comes for our ability to take on board the stories and lessons from many contexts of high performance. Sport being one. With a little over a year to go before the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, I thought we’d take a look
When thinking of the business need to deliver results I seem to be drawn toward the value of relationships. Being results driven (or outcome focused) can often seem like it would be to the detriment of people, relationships and their development. In his article – In Sports, Results Matter, But to Get Them, Ignore
The style and origin of this blog are a little different than previous, this one sees the stories of business inform sport which in turn frames some learning back. At Leading Edge we see the ability to ‘sense-make’ as a multiplier opportunity not to be missed. The skills and freedom to sense-make offers far reaching
One fundamental key to the ongoing success of a team can be value they hold for and interest they have in each other’s worlds (within and outside of work). For us, this interest in others wraps around our approach to being ‘highly effective team’ – we call it ‘Curiosity‘ Curiosity is such an important element
We recognise the need for teams to go on ‘the’ journey, not just be driven blindly or taken for the ride – and that journeys must have a clear beginning, middle and end (before moving onto the next adventure/business challenge). But how do leaders of teams engage teams to willingly go on a journey? First
Friday saw us bring together 40+ directors of Sport, Talent Development Managers and senior business leaders from retail, hospitality, food, utilities, automotive and pharmaceutical to explore #turnaround stories – the fourth event we’ve hosted in as series around #highperformance Our setting for this event was the Thomas Becket Catholic School, Northampton a #Turnaround story lead
Unconscious bias, and how it plays out in leadership, was a main theme of a pretty special 48 hours I spent with 14 Premiership Rugby Academy Managers recently. Leading Edge is working with England Rugby and Premiership Rugby on a development journey for these Academy Managers, and I’ve been privileged to support these guys for
This week’s blog is written from the perspective of being ‘managed’. What is it that employees desire from those that guide them? We’d all recognise the need for managers to flex in the manner and approach they take in transitioning through successful and challenging business periods. From motivating existing staff to welcoming new team
You can read all about our collaboration with the British Olympic Association in the attached file.. we look forward to chatting to you all about it!
The words ‘thrilled’, ‘delighted’ and ‘proud’ are all in the mix today because we can finally share the hugely exciting news that Leading Edge are collaborating with Team GB on a unique learning and development opportunity. This collaboration is TEAMEDGE. Today is 500 days to Tokyo 2020 – the next Olympics – and it’s the
Our recent posts about creating a movement sparked some memories for me around a time when I was part of one of the biggest volunteer movements in peacetime in the UK London 2012 .. the second time we’d hosted the Olympic Games in this country, involved the recruitment, training and engagement of 70000 volunteers to
Onboarding – the action or process of integrating a new employee into an organization. A process of familiarisation with “how we do things around here”… That definition would be recognised by most of us as the purpose of the company induction or onboarding period. However it can’t be as transactional as this sounds can it?
