by ab-intus | Feb 24, 2025 | Leadership
I like looking for metaphors in nature and the world around us. A way of stimulating thoughts, ideas, avenues to develop us personally and professionally. Remembering walking the Camino a few years ago, I kept seeing not just one path but several, all going in the... by ab-intus | Jan 15, 2025 | Leadership
The majority of people leaders in organisations simply rock up at work every day, carry out their leadership duties and don’t necessarily consider their leadership any deeper, They don’t lead with a clear purpose. They transactionally undertake what their...
by ab-intus | Jun 22, 2022 | Leadership
A while ago I was very fortunate to walk the Camino Frances (or the Way of St. James). An old pilgrimage route from St.Jean Pierre de Port in France, across the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostella in Western Spain. Some 800kms. A highlight for me was my pre-dawn walk...
by ab-intus | Jan 13, 2022 | Coaching, Leadership, Management
I have delivered hundreds of leadership workshops in my years. The phrase that still crops up with scary regularity which I believe is fundamentally floored and damaging is ‘constructive criticism’. No matter how much progress we have made in investing in...
by ab-intus | Feb 1, 2021 | Leadership
At the time of writing, we are in our 3rd Covid lockdown. Employees are encouraged to work from home if they can – again. Over the past year, organisations have had to consider where and how they and their employees work. We recognise too that whilst the...
by ab-intus | Jan 5, 2021 | Leadership
We are all authentic leaders, aren’t we? All of the time and with our teams? Probably not. In my experience of developing and coaching hundreds of leaders, many leaders often wear a ‘cloak of leadership’. Something that is put on them by their organisations, or they...