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Maintaining Strong Leadership in Unknown Waters…

    Maintaining Strong Leadership in Unknown Waters…   Leaders are seen to be the driving force, delivering results whilst keeping moral high. Well, as high as can be. “It’s business as usual” which should become the...

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Staff Retention – It’s not just about money

  Staff Retention – It’s not just about money     So many conversations I have with clients these days are about the challenges of staff retention, with many companies still working on the assumption that everyone is...

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Meet the Team - Andy Mottershead Leadership Development Specialist

Meet the Team Andy Mottershead Leadership Development Specialist     “You are never too old to learn new things, having an open mind to learning something new every day is the key!”   What attracted you to your role? ...

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Team communication

  Team communication: navigating the pitfalls In recent years I’ve been working on improving my communication skills, trying to reduce my Impulse to overly talk in conversations and instead practise more active listening. There have...

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Apprenticeship Levy - Can Your Organisation Benefit from Using it?

  Firstly, what is the Apprenticeship Levy? In response to the ever-increasing number of cuts to organisations, the government came up with a solution to drive apprenticeships within businesses creating the ‘Apprenticeship Levy’. A levy...

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Inspired Thinking

Leadership thinking is what we do for a living. Here's a brief selection of some of what our Dove Nest team is reading, watching and listening to. The Chimp Paradox provides a framework for understand why parts of our personality seem...

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Leadership Emotional Intelligence Problem Solving, Reality Testing and Impulse Control

Leadership and Emotional Intelligence Continuing in the series of blogs about Emotional Intelligence and leadership, in this post we look at emotional intelligence and how it can impact behaviour and effectiveness as a leader. Using...

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Leadership, Empathy and Emotionally Intelligence

Leadership, Empathy and Emotionally Intelligence Whilst Leadership and Management may have significant differences, but they both share one essential element: people. Leadership is often concerned with inspiring people and management often...

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Express Yourself: Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

Express Yourself: Leadership and Emotional Intelligence Express yourself: NWA, Madonna, Charles Wright & the 103rd Street Rhythm Band all sang about it. Continuing the series of posts about Emotional Intelligence and management, this week...

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Windswept wet and wild: Future Leaders of Nationwide help a School in Africa

Windswept wet and wild: Future Leaders of Nationwide help a School in Africa Last week I found myself in a National Trust Car Park at the foot of Scafell Pike on one of the wettest and windiest days of the year. I was the guest of a group of...

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Leadership, Emotional Intelligence and the self: Its all about you

Leadership, Emotional Intelligence and the self: Its all about you Last month I shared a blog about emotional intelligence and leadership. The post looked at 3 key areas of Emotional Intelligence: understanding the self, understanding others and...

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The Ring in the Lake

The Ring in the Lake: reunited Leadership development can sometimes be a dramatic process, but rarely comes at such a high personal cost. Back in April 2017, Marcus Simpson took away great memories of a leadership event, but also left something...

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Mind the Management Gap

Mind the Management Gap; or What got you  here won’t get you there Being promoted to a management position can be a double-edged sword. The euphoria of being promoted can quickly fade into heady mix of excitement, anxiety and confusion about...

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Practical Advice on Being an Emotionally Intelligent Manager

Practical Advice on Being an Emotionally Intelligent Manager Once upon a time, being a successful manager often meant being remote, showing little or no empathy and instead being solely focused on the business not the people. Not having any...

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Mental Health at Work: Recognising what is Hidden

Mental Health at Work: Recognising what is Hidden It is mental health awareness week, and Research tells us that 2 out of 3 people experience a mental health issue at some time. The tell-tale signs of injury to physical health are usually obvious....

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Leadership Development - Things that inspire us

Learning, its what we do for a living. But we like taking our work home with us. We wanted to share some examples of what our team is reading, watching and listening to at the moment. Here's some of things that inspire us. Reading   ...

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Leadership Apprenticeships: One size doesn't fit all

Leadership Apprenticeships: One Size Doesn’t Fit all When someone uses the phrase “one size fits all” I immediately think “that just means it fits everyone badly”. But that’s my natural cynicism. The reality can be that, although not a...

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What people say about Leadership Programmes

What people say about Leadership Programmes “I’m too busy, it would be a waste of time!” “A bit of a jolly really” – Leadership Development programmes have sometimes suffered from a bad reputation. There are lots of factors which...

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Unexpected Benefits of a Snow Day?

Many of us have had at least one Snow-day thrust upon us this week. Inconvenient for some, a delight for others, the snowy conditions can give unexpected benefits. When the snow comes down, roads become dangerous, schools close down and we can be...

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Promoting Learning Worldwide

Promoting Learning Worldwide - Salvation Way Primary School – Bombo Uganda For several years Dove Nest group have provided sponsorship support for individual children at the Salvation Way Primary School in Bombo Uganda. In January Dove...

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