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Caret consultants have written about many of the recurrent topics of leadership. Here is a selection of articles that have appeared in past bulletins and publications: To share our current thinking click here to visit the Caret blog. If you would like permission to reprint or reproduce anything from the Caret website email: permissions@caret.co.uk
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Are you the real thing? The power of authentic leadership
By Steve Botham
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Trust, respect and integrity do not seem too much to ask of a leader, but plenty reach the top without these staples of authenticity. But are they fooling anyone? Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Do you energise your people? Really!
by Oliver Nyumbu
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In an increasingly challenging environment we must find more imaginative ways of achieving higher performance. Leading with energy, can help to develop and sustain an engaged, motivated and rejuvenated workforce. Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Talent and Practice: Two Sides of a Leadership Coin?
By Oliver Nyumbu and Lesley Griffiths
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Finding, honing and keeping talent has become a key preoccupation in organisations. But is talent alone enough to ensure sustained success? What is the role of good, old-fashioned hard work in achieving excellence? Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Struggling With Being Strategic? Try Balcony and Dance Floor.
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Talk to any top team and chances are you will hear they want, or need to become more strategic. But what does being strategic mean in practice? Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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All Change? The Issue of Resistance
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If change is inevitable in today's business environment, then so too is resistance to change. Where does this resistance stem from and how do we avoid it? Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Organisational Energy: Fueling Your Competitive Edge
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Ever walked into a reception area or a meeting and felt a sense of low grade depression or indifference at best? Such a scenario is acted out everyday in thousands of single teams or whole organisations. Happily, the opposite is also true. Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Catalyst? Who Needs a Change Agent?
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing and what often becomes clear after the event is that effective innovation and change demands several different roles. One of these roles is a catalyst, an individual who enables, rather than implements. This is the change agent. Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Leadership: 100% Inspiration? (Perhaps with some perspiration thrown in)
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One of the marks of great leadership is that leaders understand who they are and they appoint people to work with them to complement their leadership. This plurality in effective leadership puts the need for inspiration firmly centre-stage. Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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The Talent Trap: Avoid it at Your Peril!
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With a rapidly changing demography and major shifts in work preferences, finding, retaining and maximising talent is becoming an organisational - if not the organisational - challenge. This is true across all levels, but only a few far-sighted organisations seem aware of this talent shortage and have developed innovative strategies to set an effective talent trap. Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Our People Are Our Leaving Assets: Spotting and Developing Talent Within Organisations
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Have you ever been to a hotel or restaurant where everything they do convinces you never to return? They actively turn you into a non-customer. Some managers are like that - they turn staff into leavers, creating team conflict, low energy levels, and resistance to change - and often lose all credibility with their teams. They become huge risks to their organisation, losing customers and opportunities and creating inefficiencies.. Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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