Steve Radcliffe is one of Europe’s top leadership experts. In the last 20 years, he has provided leadership coaching to over 50 chief executives and heads of the Civil Service, the NHS and other government departments. He is most well known for his powerful leadership development approach, Future – Engage – Deliver, that The London Times describes as ‘the no-nonsense approach…. shaking up the world of leadership’. Steve has summarised his approach in the UK’s top leadership book, Leadership Plain and Simple, published by the Financial Times.
What a week of strong high and low emotional energy. It started with serious upset!
I was thrilled to be giving my first TED Talk last Sunday in Durham; it was going to be the best ever opportunity to get the FED messages out globally via the video of the talk on the TED website. Just as I was being introduced, I saw the video lad sitting on his chair [...]
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Sunset this Saturday at the Witterings, south of Chichester. Wonderful for my spirit. Where do you go? A brief chat with a young lad really got me thinking the other day. He’s close to breaking into the music world and was talking about the different types of people he was meeting. He was telling me [...]
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HI, I’m just back from helping run the excellent annual Marketing Society Leadership Programme. It’s a wonderful mix of talks from top marketeers from the likes of Unilever, Procter and Gamble, Google, John Lewis etc interwoven with a healthy dose of FED, as we try to bring alive both the doing and being of great [...]
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Hi, I’m really chuffed to say that I’ll be doing a TED Talk soon which will be a wonderful opportunity to get our messages out to a wider audience. If you don’t know TED, go to www.ted.com immediately!! It’s a wonderful treasure-trove of inspiring talks on a full range of aspects of life. The most [...]
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My last shot before a cheerful dinner, Alesund, Norway I don’t often have a laugh when I’m reading about leadership. But I did smile when I read this paper about leadership that works in the Royal Navy Leadership_lessons_from_the_Royal_Navy Andrew St George has been writing the Royal Navy Way of Leadership and one of his [...]
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The other week, I spent time with two chief executives who most of us would say are engaging folk. However, there was a major difference between them. Both of them engaged me in them as people. I felt valued by them, listened to and included in the conversation. This helped me feel good which is [...]
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For the tenth year, I was co-leading The Marketing Society Leadership Programme last week. It’s a fabulous programme for budding marketeers with a series of talks from successful marketing directors interwoven with good old FED. It works spectacularly well. Unfortunately, soon after the participants arrive they are telling of their drowning in Operator/Manager Mode [...]
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A leader of an organisation once said ‘I want our people to be “unbridled yet corralled”‘. That is, alive and up to things but inside a clear corrall of what we as an organisation are about and where we’re headed. I thought of this notion while on holiday in the fabulous Cuba. Cubans certainly [...]
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I’ve just come off the phone from a client, Barry, who said ‘I should leave companies more often!’ He went on to say ‘I’m leaving my current organisation and I’ve received so many great farewell notes from people telling me what they’ve appreciated about me’. What surprised him was that some of the notes [...]
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I always find time around now to sit down and reflect on the year and in particular make sure to feel good about the highlights – on the basis that during the year most of us are rubbish at pausing and acknowledging ourselves for who we’ve been and what we’ve achieved! My reflections are that [...]
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