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Leadership

25 Sep

Posted at 11:39h in Leadership, Professional issues, Reflection by
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A few years ago, I experienced a bit of a professional crisis. I was working in my job as Evidence Based Researcher (and loving the projects I was leading), chairing CILIP West Midlands, and participating in ALA Emerging Leaders. Everything was great and I was really relishing all the challenges and experiences. Internally though, when I stopped to think about all the great opportunities I had, I was panicking. How had I managed to get this great job? How had I managed to secure such a brilliant project? How had I managed to get people to support my involvement in...

21 Mar

Posted at 13:00h in Leadership, Reflection, Uncategorized by
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My authentic leadership journey A little over a year ago, as part of my Clore Leadership Short Course, I had the luxury of spending a little over 24 hours reflecting on myself, my strengths, and how to lead authentically. It was tough but transformational. We'd been set some homework to complete in our rooms the night before the workshop, and I suddenly regressed back to a 15 year old version of myself panicking about making it as perfect as I could. After about 4hrs of thinking, planning, and drawing, I came up with my lifeline. [caption id="attachment_2772" align="aligncenter" width="500"] My lifeline[/caption] The next...

28 Feb

Posted at 15:26h in Leadership, Reflection, Uncategorized by
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Just over a year ago I completed my Clore Leadership Short Course; a 2 week residential leadership development course. I wrote a blog post summarizing some of my main learning points but said that I thought I'd probably be reflecting on my experience for along time to come. So have I? ABSOLUTELY! I commented at the time that I came out of Clore a different person to who I was when I started. In a way this was true, but I think I'll always be evolving - those two weeks just had a dramatic impact so I felt totally different. However...

05 May

Posted at 16:00h in Leadership, Reflection, Uncategorized by
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Back in February I attended one of the Clore Leadership Short Courses, a two week intensive residential course for people in the cultural sectors to reflect on, and develop, their leadership skills. For anyone who has discussed it with me since, I apologise - I feel a bit like I've been indoctrinated into a cult and have been extolling its virtues and encouraging everyone to experience it for themselves. It really was incredible though. I've been interested in leadership for a long time, and have learnt a lot through reading, attending courses and events, and reflecting on my own behaviour....

27 Apr

Posted at 17:20h in Leadership, Reflection, Uncategorized by
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NOTE: This blog post was drafted over a year ago but wasn't published. I'm currently reviewing my working preferences to help my colleagues and I understand each other better and thought I'd take the opportunity to share one of the tools we'll be looking at and show how mine has changed since I started my current job (I don't think my scores on Belbin's team roles will have changed much over the last year).  On the first day of my current job, I completed a Belbin team roles survey. It was a really useful tool and something which taught both myself and my...

31 Dec

Posted at 12:45h in Events, Leadership, Productivity, Professional Organisations, Public speaking, Publications, Reflection, Uncategorized by
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Another year has flown past and it's time for my annual review - you can see previous ones for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. 2013 has been a funny old year; nothing particularly terrible has happened, but I haven't felt as positive as I usually do and this has been reflected by a decrease in blogging and use of social media. It's not all bad though, as another reason for this decrease is a continuation of what I mentioned last year as a major lesson - trying to achieve a more sustainable work-life balance. This year I've been doing a...