The importance of positive organisational development after this pandemic. By Declan Noone ‘Traumatic’, that is probably the best descriptor of the last 5 months. Let’s not hide from the very real impact that Covid-19 has had on the majority of us. Individual Dimension On a personal level there have been dramatic and traumatic changes to our…
Category Archive for: Positive Change
Discussing our place in the digital world. By Declan Noone Change is a given. In fact, in our personal and professional lives, change is an essential catalyst for positive growth and development. But it’s no longer just the (increasingly breakneck) pace of change that we must contend with, but the nature of technological change impacting…
LOST – The Lebanese Organization for Studies and Training – report on their experience of deploying positive leadership tools to youth in Lebanon. Report by Majdoline Jaafar Change has always been a bitter pill to swallow. If you go back in time, to whatever revolution was made, to whatever discovery was revealed, to whatever norm…
Young London Future Leader Initiative Report by Armin Forstner From time to time, I stop and reflect on the work we are doing and on the various people we meet and teach in Positive Leadership skills. Most of the time, there is one advocate who believes in the concepts, even though they haven’t yet experienced…
A renewed call for a paradigm shift in leadership By Armin Forstner More than three years on from our initial post about Brexit, where we predicted that we will enter into a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) dominated period of time. At that point we were hopeful that a new type of leader might…
Enabling positive change By Declan Noone Social Impact, until recently, was seen as a ‘nice to have’rather than a ‘must do’. It had a light touch and light investment of time and resources by businesses. If nothing else the events of the last 18 months have propelled social impact to the front of brand and business strategies.…
By Declan Noone “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – the 14th Dalai Lama A number of conversations we have had with young leaders over the last number of weeks, has provided some fascinating insights into what they identify as a leader and as success. While they are at a stage in their…
By Declan Noone In a world of ever-increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, there is a greater need now, more than ever, for strong, adaptive and purposeful leadership, i.e., for Positive Leadership. A multitude of competing factors that have an impact on our own personal space, in both our professional and private lives, are adding…
Recognition matters. By Declan Noone Recently, the Centre for Management & Organisation Effectivenessasked a simple question to a number of leaders across North America: How do you spend your time?[1]Having analysed the data they identified that these influential and successful leaders encounter, on average, 12 interruptions per day. While a 2018 study, the findings of which…
By Armin Forstner, Managing Partner, Serrano 99 Management Consulting Every day brings a new set of challenges and opportunities. Some of which you have foreseen and others which come right out of the left field. Consequently, change is a constant in our worlds, sometimes we require external catalysts to initiate a change, and on…
