Leading Remotely? Make Growth A Priority!

Two years ago, quite abruptly, the working world many of us were used to changed. Many people who had previously spent their entire careers office-bound, suddenly found themselves working from home. With this rapid shift to remote working it is understandable that the initial priority was about the short term. Is everyone safe? How are...

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November 2022 – Question Of The Month

Question: What should be done for a successful internship programme? Answer: The most important shift to be achieved through internship is to move the intern away from an attitude of getting (for instance, “I’m here to get experience”) to one of giving (“I’m here to actually give something to this job”). If someone comes out...

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Why The Fuss Over Quiet Quitting?

COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE BY STUART FOULDS, LEGITIMATE LEADERSHIP: The term ‘quiet quitting’ has recently become a buzzword, but the worldwide problem that almost 80% of employees are not fully engaged is definitely not new. At Legitimate Leadership we have been advising leaders and organisations about this challenge for many years, and we believe it...

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Accidental Or Deliberate Growth?

Lots of leaders claim that the growth and development of their teams is extremely important but it is only exceptional leaders who truly make this their highest priority. Clever leaders know that using the job at hand to grow the person is much better than sending them off for classroom training that may or may...

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Middle Managers – From Motivating Staff To Maintaining Company Culture, Demands On Them Intensify As They Juggle The Expectations Of Employees And Senior Leaders

By Emma Jacobs, Financial Times. COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE BY WENDY LAMBOURNE, LEGITIMATE LEADERSHIP: This is not about demands for inflation-based increases, hybrid working, or pressure for results – the current presenting issues. It is about how middle managers or managers of first line managers excel irrespective of the current set of environmental conditions. From...

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October 2022 – Question Of The Month

Question: Interns look to learn from the companies they join. But what can the companies learn from the interns?  Answer:  Whether your internship project is a success or a failure, you can be sure of one thing: it will clarify whether your organisation (or your part of it) is a “giving” or a “taking” one. This is...

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Stop Complaining And Start Leading – An Overbearing Sense Of Entitlement Isn’t Good For Your Employees Either

One of the more frequent complaints I encounter in the work I do is managers grumbling about entitled team members. And they’re not wrong. Entitlement is certainly alive and well in organisations the world over. It’s also not a phenomenon limited to Millennials and Gen Z’ers. I’ve come across plenty of senior managers who display...

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The Cost Of Living Versus The Cost Of Leadership

2022 has seen inflation go from 1% to 10% in many countries, and it is still rising. So the cost of living has dominated headlines as people struggle to make ends meet financially. Money (pounds, dollars, euros, or whatever) is the currency people are focused on. In these difficult times, obviously leadership is ever more...

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September 2022 – Question Of The Month

Question: What does Legitimate Leadership believe about controls in an organisation?  Answer: In times of adversity, typically the number of rules and controls, particularly surrounding spending, increases in an attempt to meet tighter budgets – rather than setting cost reduction targets and giving local management the freedom to determine how to achieve them. There is a...

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Innovating Leadership

Charles Darwin said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Put another way, when things don’t change, they atrophy or ultimately cease to exist. Yet management has largely remained unchanged for the past 100 years....

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Leading Remotely? Make Growth A Priority!

Two years ago, quite abruptly, the working world many of us were used to changed. Many people who had previously spent their entire careers office-bound, suddenly found themselves working from home. With this rapid shift to remote working it is understandable that the initial priority was about the short term. Is everyone safe? How are...

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