Ian Berry from Australia spoke to my Academy for Chief Executives CEO Forum group (ACE11) recently. The subject, “What real leaders do and fake ones don’t”. He was brilliant and scored very highly with the CEO members present. The first half of the talk featured on: Living the lessons of our defining moments. Being a […]
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Using Intuition in Business – by Peter Sutcliffe
The North East Academy for Chief Executives, Directors Forum speaker in September was Juliette Lee who facilitated an excellent interactive workshop on “Eye of Leadership“. The experiential learning workshop scrutinized many aspects of leadership including examining our often untapped inner feelings and how we can use many practical techniques to resolving key issues. In summary, […]
Five Leadership Lessons From Holiday By Jeremy Thorn
I went sailing on a friend’s wonderful sea-going boat recently, up a tidal river and then through a number of quite awkward canal locks. As a very ignorant and slightly concerned rookie crewman, knowing nothing about boating and with a long-standing aversion to getting both cold and wet, I was amazed at how much I […]
Thought Leaders and How They Emerge by Philip Hesketh
Whenever people are formed into a group before long a natural leader emerges. You only have to watch an episode of Big Brother or The Apprentice to witness this happening. There’ll be one person who either takes the initiative in a task and organises the troops, or in the case of Big Brother, steals a […]
Using Great Leaders to Model Leadership Behaviours by Brian Chernett
We can all be better leaders. Even those of us who have been leading people and companies for many years can learn from those who do things better than we do. Improvement is a continuous process when we choose to learn from others. One tool for improving leadership is to model what those who are […]
Develop Leadership Qualities by Phil Jesson and Brian Chernett
(First published in CEO Today Spring 2010) Have a look around at the political, religious and business leaders who affect your life. What do you see? Do you see leaders capable of inspiring ordinary people to achieve great things or do you see grey administrators detached from reality and the audience they claim to represent? […]
‘Reading Someone before you Shake Hands’ by Peter Sutcliffe
Members of the North East Academy for Chief Executives, Directors Forum 11, recently learned from speaker, John Cremer, how to “Read someone before you shake hands“. John’s brilliant workshop explaining his unique perspective on people ‘type’s’, their traits and personalities – both informative and highly entertaining. The experiential learning session helped us to understand other […]
Spread the Passion virus through your Business – by Brian Chernett
Are you passionate about your business? Do you believe in what you’re doing and how you are going about it? If you are, that’s good, though there may be plenty of room for improvement. If you aren’t passionate about what you do, that is a problem that may need you to rethink your current situation […]
Make Better Decisions by Ditching your “Default Alternative” – by Ian Moore
Our brains have developed over hundreds of thousands of years and our evolution has allowed it to make some decisions very rapidly. This development has a Catch 22 when it comes to making decisions. For survival purposes our brains have developed very useful mechanisms however these very mechanisms can cause real issues when making business […]
The real wizards of the business world? … Entrepreneurs – by Paul Hunting
‘To receive you must be active. You will receive in direct proportion to your strength of purpose, clarity of vision, steadiness of faith and depth of gratitude.’ – John-Roger I’ve been hunting all my life. For thirty years I’ve been pursuing my dreams disguised as a business person – but secretly practising alchemy. My role […]