What is Situational Leadership?
In the first of 3 short blogs, Leader-Connect defines some Leadership styles. Situational leadership is where leadership rests with the most appropriate team member to handle a specific challenge. For example a project to improve a company’s social media presence might be led by a relatively junior team member who happens to have the […]
What is My Leadership Style?
Understanding your leadership style is really important, but whatever style you might have can always be developed and refined once it is understood. The most effective leaders are comfortable being themselves and they do not play a part in front of their team; this is what is referred to as authentic leadership, but to lead […]
How to Improve Your Leadership Skills
This is a question that we often get asked at Leader-Connect as people are apprehensive and daunted as who to approach and make that first step. It is comparatively easy to improve leadership skills for an individual or across a leadership or management team. Most managers and directors in UK organisations have had little […]
Leadership vs Management
What is the difference between Leadership and Management? According to Neil Jurd OBE leadership is focused on people and management is focused on “stuff’”. Neil defines leadership as: ‘increasing your impact on the world by engaging others intellectually and emotionally in pursuit of a clear and compelling purpose’. As such key leadership […]
What is Leadership?
The definition in the 2020 bestselling ‘The Leadership Book’ by Neil Jurd says: Leadership is increasing far beyond what a person could do alone, by engaging others intellectually and emotionally in pursuit of a “Clear and Compelling Purpose“. Looking at this definition in more detail: First, leaders achieve much more than they could […]
Why is Leadership Important?
Leadership is an essential aspect of high performance. Good leadership leads to higher performance, better morale, increased creativity and higher levels of resilience. Most organisations don’t differentiate between leadership and management, often resulting in over-management which tends to crush all of the positive outcomes associated with good leadership. In the introduction to ‘The Leadership […]
The Merrill Reid Social Styles Tool for Leadership Development
One of the things on the leadership development website that our clients find useful and which we incorporate in some of our residential leadership training and coaching work is the Merrill Reid social styles online assessment tool. The tool is simple to use and helps the user to better understand their own personality type and […]
Leader-Connect Online Leadership Training
In recent weeks the Leader-Connect online leadership school has signed up several SMEs and other users, in total we have welcomed around 80 new users. Our client base is very broad, users of the online leadership training include housing-tech company Alertacall, staff at the prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, and […]
Soldiers March into Corporate Jobs – The Times
Ahead of Armed Forces Day, Neil Jurd OBE recently spoke with Jane Hamilton from The Times for this great article on why more UK companies are turning to former Forces personnel for executive leadership roles. With organisations spending billions annually on training -yet productivity falling, Neil shared why veterans, particularly officers and senior NCOs, bring battle-tested […]
What is Leader-Connect?
Leader-Connect is a Cumbrian based leadership training company based in Kendal but we work all over the UK and have also had a member of our team working full-time in Libya for 18 months. There are two aspects to the business: We run leadership training for organisations. Our online learning platform. We work […]
