Blog & articles

13 min read

Personality tests describe who you think you are. Known By Name describes how others experience you. One sits in a drawer. The other shapes how far you go.

5 min read

AI has decoupled the work from the worker. A junior now produces what once signalled ten years of experience, and the old shortcut for reading capability no longer holds. Leading well means judging the work and the person as two separate questions.

13 min read

Manager development stops after the first year in most organisations, and the middle years are where your leadership bench gets built. What to develop in years two and three, and how to design it with the rooms you already run.

14 min read

Most leadership development looks brilliant on paper and changes almost nothing in practice. The content is rarely the problem. The failure is structural, in how programs are bought, delivered and supported. This piece walks through what fails, why, and the questions to ask before you fund another program. For HR leaders, L&D buyers, and anyone tired of watching workshops fade by Friday.

11 min read

The skills that earned you the promotion are not the ones the job now runs on. A four-stage guide to what a newly promoted manager needs to build in themselves, from the identity shift to the presence that gets them trusted with more.

13 min read

Almost nobody builds their own team. Taking over an existing one is the default condition of management. Five fair-first moves for the first 90 days, what changes with a struggling team or a harsh predecessor, and the two clocks deciding when the team becomes yours.