If your latest staff satisfaction survey has highlighted an increase in staff who feel undervalued and disengaged, and you’re observing lower productivity and higher staff turnover, it might be time to take a closer look at compassionate leadership. What Is Compassionate Leadership? Compassionate leadership has developed out of the science and application of mindfulness, originally…
Ask anyone at work whether they’ve experienced change in the last five years and it’s likely that the answer will be a resounding sigh, followed by a yes. Change is prevalent, our own research finds that roughly 1 in 2 managers report having undergone change initiatives with only 40% of them agreeing they were successful.…
People skilled in specialist technical or professional areas are often wary of taking on leadership roles. Those technical experts that do take the plunge often find a lack of development opportunities limits their success. Looking beyond the stereotypes, this practical research report builds a fuller, evidence based understanding of an expert as leader. Whether you…
This paper was a finalist in the 2016 Research Competition and explores the topic of collaboration and what it actually means in practice and what it takes to be successful. The paper sets out to address this, uncover ways in which organisations might improve their collaboration, and shed light on behaviours that can get in…
Most of the studies on trust in organisations have taken a cross-sectional approach (snapshot view) and looked at it at a single point in time. However, trust is a dynamic phenomenon and cross-sectional studies of trust are inadequate to meaningfully capture changes in trust and understand how it fluctuates over time in response to events…
The challenges that leaders face change over time therefore the capabilities of individual leaders must also evolve. As Roffey Park’s Management Agenda research has identified, organisations continue to report they do not have the breadth and depth of leadership capability that complex, competitive business environments require. Whilst the majority of managers rate leadership skills of…
While I was reading the news, I came across a classic example of lack of compassion in an organisation. An employee, Toner, needed to take his terminally ill grandmother to hospital for a medical test and there was no one else in his family to do it. Toner was told by his boss that he…
Storytelling is receiving increasing attention in the management literature as a powerful tool for addressing many of today’s key leadership challenges, including articulating a clear vision and strategy, engaging employees, generating commitment to change and establishing trust in leaders. In this report we draw on existing literature and semi-structured interviews with senior leaders to examine…
For any executive coaches of C-suite managers, the findings of the Odgers-Berndston Lonely at the Top survey of FTSE 350 top executives, published recently in The Times (30 November 2015) will come as no surprise. One of the stark findings of the survey was how these executives felt about the pace they were currently working…
Boundaries. One of the first words you hear in coach training, usually accompanied with an overlapping Venn diagram consisting of the practices of counselling, coaching and mentoring. Where does one stop and the other starts; how to avoid getting drawn into the client’s history (that’s counselling), or how never to give advice even if you…
There is no shortage of competency frameworks and theory that seek to describe what effective leadership is all about. Indeed the Centre for Leadership Studies at University of Exeter published a review in 2003 of 24 competency frameworks across the public and private sectors and seven schools of leadership theory and still found them wanting.…
Roffey Park has a range of resources on the topic of resilience including an online tool to measure your own resilience capability. Contact us to find out more
