Steve works for Siemens UK Energy as a safety leadership coach & consultant. His role includes coaching leaders & teams, and supporting safety culture change.. He cares most deeply about relationships, and stands for the possibility that anyone can be truly outstanding, by being who they really are.
The first and foremost task of a leader is to look after our energies and then to help others look after theirs…. so said Peter Drucker, wise words they are and yet how easy is it for us to ask for help from others in managing our energies? One leader in a team I was [...]
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FED leadership is all about conscious practice, being aware of who we need to be to in order to be at our best more of the time including what we may need to “let go of”. In this post Steve Holliday, regular FED post contributor, writes about what he realised he needed to let go [...]
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In this post regular FED contributor Steve Holliday writes about asking for help, getting it and the difference a support team can make. Perhaps there’s more support for you out there than you think? I was recently in Brighton and being near the sea, and my training well underway for a team relay swim of [...]
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In this post, regular FED contributor Steve Holliday writes about making conscious choices. One of the key underlying principles of the Future Engage Deliver approach to Leadership is that of conscious leadership, of being truly aware and awake to the choices that we are making. What does it take to make a conscious choice? I [...]
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There are two questions that I often ask in my coaching work of others: What do you really care about? and What are you leading for at home, and at work? They are of course both questions that invite Future focus and are particularly relevant at times of change and transition. I have been asking [...]
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This week the post is from Steve Holliday, a regular contributor to our FED Central site. In this post he writes of the rich mix of being wild and feeling safe at the same time. A great combination of feeling safe enough in order to take risks, to be bold, brave – and wild and [...]
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I have learnt a lot about how my energy can impact others from my relationship with our dog Chester. Chester used to walk calmly out of the back door into the garden, espy the same fence to his left – the one my neighbours 2 labradors live behind – lean onto his back legs with [...]
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Here is a great post from Steve Holliday. I’ve been thinking about times when results have been great, and the relationships great. I’ve wondered what it really means to “relate” to another person and what it is about great relationships enabling great results? I find that in relationships there are times when we seem synchronised, [...]
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As I headed south on the train last night from Newcastle, having just met a number of new colleagues, I had a sense that all the big relationships I had been going for had come off. In fact they were even richer than I’d anticipated…….and you know what…..it felt exhilarating. How had I made this [...]
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