We recently worked in partnership with a public sector agency to support their staff to build an understanding of the importance of emotional intelligence and develop their skills to enable them to build and maintain healthy and effective working relationships within their teams and externally with stakeholders and clients. 

Leadership has never been just about making decisions and, here at Taylor Clarke, listening to the challenges our clients tell us about we know that it’s no longer enough to rely on past experience, technical knowledge or expertise.

Organisational change and development are no longer optional. In today’s rapidly shifting environment, businesses that cannot adapt risk being left behind. Yet as Dougie and Bonnie highlighted, success is rarely determined by the brilliance of a new strategy, structure, or system. More often, it comes down to how well leaders manage the people side of change.

The speed, scale, and sustained nature of organisational change is an ever-present challenge. It is unlikely to slow down anytime soon, which means that building our personal resilience as we navigate continuous change is more important than ever.

At our recent Leadership Development Network, hosted by David Mason and Clive Martlew, we explored the idea of alignment in leadership development.

Reflections from Taylor Clarke’s July ‘Let’s Talk’ event Photo by Imagine Buddy  on Unsplash At Taylor Clarke, we’re passionate about...

Effective communication during organisational change is a vital part of helping people navigate through the change.   In this blog, I explore how use of a shared language can help ensure communications land well and how it can also reduce the danger of folks getting lost along the way. In my previous blog, “Stuck in the middle with you”, I mentioned the constant background soundtrack I have in my head sharing there, how conversations/thoughts will result in a different song