Leadership Articles

9 articles

Why you need fresh air in a family business

  • 20 February 2016
  • Ian Williams

Ian highlights the need for fresh air in the family business, with family members using and acquiring skills and experience within and beyond the business.

Workplace Well-being: Your Responsibility

  • 27 October 2015
  • Ian Williams

Business owners, HR & line mangers and leaders have a responsibility of care , not only for physical safety, but for psychological well-being. Ian explores this, and gives insights and ideas for positive action, a framework for wellbeing in values and culture, and offers diagnostic work in organisations to enhance excellence in people management.

Developing tomorrow’s leaders

  • 11 August 2015
  • Ian Williams

From strategy and selection to training and culture, organisations that take a holistic approach to growing leaders will be the most successful.

Time For Change

  • 23 July 2015
  • Ian Williams

Change is always with us, so let’s not fear it but embrace it with gusto. The theme of the diamonds suit is POTENTIAL.

Play Your Leadership Cards

  • 23 July 2015
  • Ian Williams

No great leader ever achieved great things by playing small. We all need to extend and enhance our game if we expect to make progress, as any athlete will confirm. Leadership itself, though, is huge topic.

A Checklist for Changing Me to Change Them

  • 23 July 2015
  • Ian Williams

We can’t build a team or organization that’s different from us. We can’t make them into something we’re not.

Commitment is Everything

  • 23 July 2015
  • Ian Williams

Intentions are worth nothing unless they are translated in how we behave, and to the effect or result we want to see. It boils down to your purpose, and the commitments you make to live that purpose.

The 7 Truths of Liberating Leadership

  • 23 July 2015
  • Ian Williams

I left you with some thoughts about the common lies around leadership in my last blog, and how they impact on people and business. As promised, here is the other side of the coin – the truths that underpin good leadership.

The 7 Lies of Limiting Leadership

  • 23 July 2015
  • Ian Williams

I’m looking at the common lies around leadership, and how they impact on people and business. Next, I’ll be publishing the related truths of good leadership.