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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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The Listening Leader
by Oliver Nyumbu
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Oliver examines listening behaviours in leadership and offers evidence and suggestions for measuring the effectiveness of active listening. Click here to download the whole article in pdf |
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The Myth of Superleader
by Steve Botham and Rob Sykes
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The public sector is all too ready to embrace so-called superleaders with cultish devotion. Rob Sykes and Steve Botham explain how to spot the real thing in this Municipal Journal article from September 2008. Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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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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