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”.
This week we are sharing with you a link to a great article spotted by one of the SRA team on ‘modes not personality’ by Daniel Goleman author of ‘Emotional Intelligence’. For those of you familiar with Future Engage Deliver you will know that one of the key lenses through which we help leaders explore [...]
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One of the best things about working in my office is my new stand-up desk. I first heard about stand-up desks whilst working with a team over in Denmark where they are common place. We were talking about the importance of everyday well being and how doing small, physical, things can help us manage our [...]
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A few weeks ago I read a great interview with actor Javier Bardem in which he is quoted as saying: I don’t do failure. I don’t do success. I only do commitment. So rather than making a new year resolution how about thinking about what you are committing to practice…… what – if you really [...]
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The people who are happiest at work are gardeners and florists followed by hairdressers and plumbers according to The City and Guilds Career Happiness Index 2012 which finds that some of the unhappiest people are those in office based and managerial work including bankers, IT and HR professionals. I was recently asked to comment on [...]
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So read the sign in the back of the pizza van. It caught my eye and although I couldn’t see beyond the word ‘energy’ I imagined that it went on to say ‘when you come to work’. Curiosity got the better of me and I asked the guy making the pizzas what the notice went [...]
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Like many people I am back from holidays and keen as ever to keep up some of the calm – not the momentum – of being on holiday. This is no easy matter. And I have already heard from a number of people who feel that their holidays all too quickly, like their tan, fade [...]
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As weekly subscribers know I am editor of FED posts and this week rather than editing a post I have written one whilst away on holiday. And it was being on holiday that had me think about how we manage our energies, and in particular how we stay switched on to wherever we are. Years [...]
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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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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 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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