We are now a few weeks into the dramatic and enforced changes to our work routines. The most significant change for many of us has been to adapt our home into a practical working environment. Bedrooms, broom cupboards and attics across the UK are now active places of work. Once upon a time, working from […]
Trust plays an important part in the effectiveness of any team. You need to be confident that your colleagues can be relied upon, not only to do the role that has been assigned to them, but also to provide practical and emotional support when you require it. Naturally, your team members will have the same […]
There are many ways to strengthen and improve the way that leaders lead through times of change, most of which reflect how challenging change can be within teams and organisations. We often talk about the ‘change curve’ and how individuals respond and react in different ways to the introduction of change. Here, we focus on […]
Everyone wants to be a good role model. Whether it’s to your children, employees or even strangers, we all want to make a good impression on the people around us. But being a role model means something different to everyone. Think about some of the most popular role models of modern – and indeed previous […]
A lot of Pearn Kandola’s work in leadership development involves testing and challenging leaders in unfamiliar situations. We can gain a great deal of insight into a leader’s behaviour, mindset and decision making style when they are stretched and taken outside of the usual zones of familiarity. This is because intense pressure causes people to […]
We were asked to provide a one-to-one leadership development programme for a select team of directors at Robert Walters, in support of the Group’s vision for service expansion across the UK, Middle East and Asia. Robert Walters selected Pearn Kandola as the programme partner based on our expertise in one-to-one development, our experience in delivering […]
Many organisations are looking at developing more effective agile working strategies to enable their people to work with more flexibility, freedom and time/cost efficiency. The immediate focus for these organisations is often on the technology and work space solutions to ensure their teams are equipped to work anywhere with WiFi and a power source. What […]
Leading agile and dispersed teams requires many of the qualities that you would associate with leaders of centralised teams. Without doubt, however, agile working throws up an additional set of challenges and risks that are not always obvious. Our research with agile teams also enabled us to look at how leaders successfully engaged and supported […]
Leading a team successfully is not necessarily about having the knowledge, or even the experience in your chosen field. From a psychological perspective, leading and inspiring a team is more about the way in which you engage your team, than technical knowledge. Many businesses underestimate the impact of this, and they promote people to management […]
If you witnessed an accident, what would you do? Would you rush over to help, administering first aid to casualties and calling the emergency services? Or would you stand by and watch, waiting for someone else get involved? However much you’d like to think that you’d be the hero, research suggests that you’re more likely […]