As a leader of people, one of the most crucial skills you need to continually hone is communicating with your teams. This might sound obvious, but it can have truly catastrophic consequences if you get it wrong. I've been part of teams where our manager has been an excellent communicator, treated us all like adults, … Continue reading Communicating Like A Boss – Leading your Teams Through Change
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It may surprise some people as it’s not commonly talked about in the industry but not every company will develop its own IT systems. Not every company has an agile development culture, some have a culture of buying the best of the market solutions and integrate them together. This brings about a very different challenge … Continue reading Testing SaaS – Quality in a “Buy not Build” Culture
I am a bit of a sucker for Podcast interviews, but this is the first one I have done which has been purely focused on the leadership side of my role and more specifically, the people leadership aspect. I first came across Tim Roberts when I started my coaching journey and came across the Coaching … Continue reading Break the Mould – Leadership Podcast Appearance
As a leader, I feel honoured and privileged to be trusted to lead a team of humans. This is a complete career change for most who transition into a manager/people leadership role as your domain knowledge skills become secondary. I also truly believe in Servant Leadership or my preferred term -"People First Leadership". It's clear … Continue reading People First Leadership – Working for Your Teams
Leading a team can be hugely rewarding and helping then succeed through your guidance/mentoring and coaching can give you the ultimate job satisfaction. Following on from my previous article on supporting your team, you may find yourself in a place where you have team members who are neurodivergent and this can require a whole new … Continue reading Leading Minds of All Kinds – Embracing Neurodivergence in Your Teams
All people managers have the unenviable task of leading a group of people, there is no straight forward way to make this successful, mainly because every single person in your team is different, has different needs, is motivated by different things and has different interests, so how do you even start to support them? The … Continue reading In It Together! – Supporting your Team
Historically, there was expectation that to be a good leader, you had to be bulletproof and show no weakness, make no mistakes and certainly show no negative emotion. This lead to leaders masking their true selves and not being authentic. Instead, fitting the corporate mould to ensure they met the expectations of the company they … Continue reading We Can’t Always Be Perfect – Owning Your Leadership Mistakes
Earlier this year, I was asked if I would be interested in returning to my secondary school as the Guest of Honour for their annual Prizegiving and Speech Day event. I had only been back once since I left in 2003, so for me, this was a big deal. As I share below in my … Continue reading WGS Speech Day 2023 – An Honour to return
It's been a while since my last post, and since today has been such an inspiring day, I thought it was a good opportunity to get back to writing. I was given an opportunity through an internal Leadership Programme, to attend a conference of choice. I decided to go for something outside of the usual … Continue reading Coaching Culture 2022 – A Day of Inspiration
I'm starting 2022 in a more senior role, and it has been an aspiration for the last few years to build myself up to this point. I've learned so much since I left my first role in management in 2018 and moved towards more senior leadership roles. One of the big things I believe I … Continue reading Building a World Class Test Team
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