About Anni Townend


Anni Townend is a leadership consultant and author with over twenty years of experience facilitating, coaching and counselling people in a wide range of organisations. Anni is a core member of Steve Radcliffe Associates working with senior leaders and their teams helping them to explore and to become clearer about who they are and what they are leading for through Future-Engage-Deliver. Anni brings a passion for people and belief in the power of building bigger relationships in which the possibilities for excellence are made real. Her most recent publication is Assertiveness and Diversity published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2007. It is described as: “A powerful and engaging book that combines a straightforward practicality with a rare wisdom and insight into human relationships”.

 

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Have you got a story you’d like to tell?

1 August 2011

I enjoy a good story. I like reading people’s stories and even more I get a real buzz out of helping people tell their stories and write them down. It’s one of the reasons I love editing our weekly post and encouraging people to share something of who they are and what they are up [...]

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Are you playing to win?

6 December 2010

I have recently joined a new club of people who love The West Wing. The TV political drama series set in The White House charting the daily lives of a group of advisors to the President played by Martin Sheen. I have come to this series rather late in the form of a boxed set [...]

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What’s keeping you going?

15 November 2010

What’s keeping me going at the moment is my vision of what it will be like to sit in our new conservatory on a winter morning sipping my coffee and looking out over the South Downs. The context here is that the house is in total chaos. As well as the conservatory being built, all [...]

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Who do you know that is famous for what they believe in?

20 September 2010

This is the question that I asked a team of senior leaders earlier this year and immediately Mike Duckett’s name was put forward.  Others had heard of him and asked: Is he the guy who is making a big difference in the NHS and serving food that patients and their families want to eat? I [...]

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Why did I watch ‘The Damned United’?

2 August 2010

The following post is the first in series. We want to hear from you about films that have inspired you as a leader, that you’ve really enjoyed and that have had you reflect on your leadership. The short answer to this question is: Relationships. I am fascinated by relationships, in particular what makes for a [...]

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The bee-keeper’s diary. Leadership lesson 3

26 July 2010

One of the many challenges of bee-keeping for me is that of overcoming my stress around being stung. This challenge has in large measure spurred me on to enquire in to ways of bee-keeping that are about getting to know the bees and to understand them. The hope being that this approach to bee-keeping will [...]

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The bee-keeper’s diary. Leadership lesson #2

12 April 2010

Those of you who have read my earlier posting on bee-keeping will know that I am new to bees and have a lot to learn. One of the biggest challenges has been to trust that the bees are all right inside the hive over the winter months. During this time there have been no signs [...]

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The bee-keeper’s diary. Leadership lesson 1

15 March 2010

I am new to bee-keeping and there is much that I have to learn! We took possession of our first swarm of bees last June and we soon discovered just how many different views there are on the best way of keeping bees. What I also quickly realised was that although I was now officially [...]

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What helps leaders grow and develop?

1 March 2010

What’s your experience of being developed as a leader and of developing others as leaders, and what are some of the key characteristics? In all the time that I have been asking these questions of leaders there is one characteristic that stands out and it is ‘belief’. People say: ‘They believed in me – even [...]

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What geese can teach us about leading and team-working

1 February 2010

Birds flying in V-formations use less energy to flap their wings than those on solo flights. Birds in flocks can therefore fly for longer than those travelling on their own. (the image is kindly from Islay Pictures Photoblog) I have long been fascinated by geese as they fly in V-formation heading south in the autumn [...]

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