The curious leader has an insatiable interest in new people, new things and new experiences. They have constantly active minds as one fresh insight leads to another, which leads to the desire for yet further discovery. They pursue this interest for personal growth with a view to uncovering fresh insights and new ideas that...
Are you still sheep-dipping leaders and managers in the hope that some collective get-together, either in-person or virtually, will engage them sufficiently to deliver your organisational change effort? If you are: Stop. Now. Think about the employee experience (EX) of such an ordeal: pouring stewed coffee from one of those tall silver flasks (assuming...
To paraphrase Herbert Yardley, ‘once the money is in the pot it is no longer yours.’ The investment you have made is history and you just need to focus on what you will do next, based on the best information you have to hand and your understanding of the wider context in which you...
Exhausted. The most common response I get to an opening question I pose senior leaders that I have the chance to speak with most days of the week. Change and uncertainty: The two most common responses to my follow-up question about the root causes of that exhaustion. I appreciate their openness about their feelings....
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Introducing NEW Concise Coaching by Exigence Real-time development for your leaders and managers in transition. What is Concise Coaching? The ultimate individual and pragmatic approach to development. Coaching leaders within 20-minute sessions enables a larger number of people in organisations to access the benefits of coaching; being mindful of the workload...
We spend a lot of time talking about leaders. Restricting the conversation to leaders & managers (henceforth ‘leaders’) misses a significant constituent body especially when planning for successful organisational change. We need to talk about ‘followers.’ Regardless of whether we are considering ‘followers’ as part of the macro-plan for change (which they should be)...
We have spent eighteen months creating the Exigence brand. We had the help of many fantastic and experienced professionals in building something that I am incredibly proud of and that resonates with our team and customers. It wasn’t easy. The hardest part of the creative process for me, was the constant counsel I received...
Organisations are constantly in motion. Expanding and shrinking. Accelerating and slowing down. Pursuing and following. A business represents a fluid system that exerts and reacts to forces both internal and external, known and unknown. The better equipped organisations are to cope with their dynamic nature the quicker and faster they can move forward. This...
As many businesses continue to wrestle with the “if“ and/or “how” of whether employees should head back to working on-site, there seems to be an opportunity here for those same organisations to consider their role on a societal scale. Since early Summer 2020, we have been challenging individual leaders and their organisations, to consider...
We all know leaders whose thinking is constrained by their past experiences and their existing belief systems. They open problem-solving or decision-making dialogue around an issue and proceed to steer the solutions towards the one they have in mind. In their view, theirs is the only logical and sound conclusion. Top performing leaders take...
