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“People are becoming increasingly intolerant of companies without a Collaborative Culture …” ~ Roger Fairhead If the people driving the strategy aren’t passionate about the change you want to make, then you stand no chance of implementing a plan. What is corporate culture? I first noticed corporate culture when I moved to my second employer. […]
All leaders are flawed … Recently I was looking for examples of a great leader. It seems that we’ve always had some good leaders among us, and we’ve often even had some impressive leaders demonstrating moments of absolute brilliance. However, from my research, we’ve rarely seen a great leader. Leaders who don’t rely on their […]
Roger in Company Culture, Deliver, Developing the Leader Within You, Emotional Intelligence, Interact, Leadership
March 1, 2021
“I’d like several other fences to be taken into consideration” ~ Ronnie Barker as Fletcher from the TV Series, “Porridge”. Ronnie Barker played the part of Norman Stanley Fletcher in a TV comedy series called Porridge. Barker’s character was of a soft-hearted hardened criminal who regularly had a run-in with two of his prison wardens, […]
When you know it in your “knower”. Some years ago, I was chatting with my friend Ernie, the leader of a local organisation, as people were gathering for an event, and as a couple passed us by, he enquired of me about them and their relationship, and then he said: “Don’t you just get the […]
Leaders with an abundance mentality and approach to their work focus on the possibilities rather than the problems, on what could be rather than what is, on what they want to do rather than on what’s convenient, on what they could achieve to make a difference.
There is a storm going on right now for many businesses in the midst of this pandemic, where uncertainty is causing staff to dwell in the storm for far longer than they need to. If the team can’t see a way forward with certainty, and the what-if discussion goes round in circles, then the team can find itself languishing in the storm from where others have already emerged.
Roger in Company Culture, Deliver, Emotional Intelligence, Interact, Leadership, Next Exciting Win, PRIZE
May 29, 2020
We’re living in The Disruption, and it’ll soon be time to emerge. In the last few days, we’ve had a family bereavement. Nothing to do with the COVID Pandemic, my mother-in-law was 94 and passed away very peacefully with her family by her side holding her hand. Doris was loved by many and an […]
Roger in 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Deliver, Interact, Leadership, PRIZE, PRIZE Leadership Quotient
May 1, 2020
Leadership is the art of making decisions in the dim light of incomplete information, and leadership is measured with the illumination of hindsight.
If we want to be sure to be as well equipped as possible when the time comes for those dimly lit decisions to be made, then we need to make sure that our leadership skills are as developed as possible in preparation, and the PLQ provides a helpful benchmark against which we can assess our progress.
If we can measure it, then we stand a chance of being able to deliver it.
I have found without exception, when working with teams, that by helping them to understand the things that motivate them and their colleagues, they can learn how to improve their combined performance, productivity and profitability.
So what could “collateral beauty” mean? Well, maybe it could be described as an unintended bonus, benefit or beneficial consequence resulting unexpectedly from the midst of a tragedy.
Roger is a Leadership specialist and uses the PRIZE Winning Leadership model to help leaders improve their effectiveness and that of their teams, through remote and on-site delivery of keynotes, group training events and individual coaching sessions.
He is the author of several books including "PRIZE Winning Leadership" and “Personal Productivity Planner”, a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management and a Director of the Global Leadership Network UK with extensive experience in Project Management and Sales.
“He is articulate, tracks complex issues with ease and has an incredible gift for raising pearls of wisdom out of the murky depths of people and process.” His passion is to help people to learn effective leadership skills to lead their teams to capitalize on their strengths and passions to realize their dreams.
Roger also invests into the dreams of families in the world’s underserved communities to offer them small loans that empower them to invest in their future, to provide for their families and give back to their communities.