Global Leadership Coach to: Chairman, CEOs & Executive Boards.
Top 2% of Global Podcasters, Leadership Mentor & Team CoachJonathan thrives supporting early growth businesses and Tech Companies; focussing on personal behaviour and future business results. You will gain a high return on investing in your own and your team’s development. His vocation has been shaped by his Father’s heroic leadership role modelling and his untimely death, as a British Royal Navy fast jet Pilot. Jonathan’s life calling is to inspire you and your team to: find and live your “True North”, unlock your potential and make a difference via your business.Leaders say they experience 3 specific benefits from working with Jonathan: they find greater meaning and purpose for themselves and those they lead, they learn to encourage independent, finest thinking and innovation - leading to faster, sustainable business results. Jonathan is a Master Certified Coach (MCC), Virtual Team Facilitator, motivational speaker, philanthropist, pragmatic philosopher and author. As top 2% Globally ranked Podcaster and Key Person of Influence (KPI) he focuses on current and aspiring CEOs, senior executives and their teams in every possible sector. No challenge is too hard.
I have been inspired my the writings of Margaret J Wheatley which I attach a short article of hers below.
Disturb Me, Please!
The Works: Your Source to Being Fully Alive, Summer 2000If we are people exploring the unknown, if we are to be the pioneers and discoverers of the new world, then I’d like us to notice the presence of some essential but unusual companions. One of our greatest friends...
Perhaps you think The lies in the LIBOR scandal doesn’t affect you?
The CEO and chairman resign, 13 employees disciplined and five dismissed at Barclays, 25 bankers were forced to leave UBS and others disciplined and dismissed in RBS. US $1.5 billion Fines for UBS, Barclays fined US $464 million and RBS fine even bigger and running into many millions of Dollars with at least 13 other banks...
How corrosive do you think a lack of integrity is for a company?
Here are some recent examples that I have come across:
1. Senior executives who overlook dishonesty in their staff, as long as those individual delivers and makes money.
2. Bosses who are too focused on their own financial package and benefits to be concerned about motivating their own staff.
3. Petty arguments between board members...
Many Thanks to Peter Neville Lewis and his South African colleague, Wendy Addison, Founder of Speak Out – Speak Up for the powerful words below. I have reproduced this from his wonderful blog which I recommend:
http://www.principledconsulting.biz/blog
Wendy was the whistle blowing Corporate Treasurer at Leisure Net, a major corporate accounting scandal in South Africa, back in 2000, which...
What is it that will make your team high-performing; while others are merely average?
Your key ingredient to inspiring leadership within your team, who in turn inspire others is to build strong, trusting relationships.
Too many senior leaders mistakenly believe that they need to be smarter and more knowledgeable than their direct reports.
Helpful, yet wrong!
What you really need is to be genuinely...
I hope that you enjoy this uplifting video
http://www.ted.com/talks/kid_president_i_think_we_all_need_a_pep_talk.html
There is so much that we can learn from our very young children.
They are less constrained by anxiety and fear of failure when they are so young.
What goes wrong? By the time we become teenagers we are riddled with angst and exam worries!
Perhaps it’s time for us to regain...
Do you shy away from defining crucial New Year’s Resolutions like:
1. What are your top 3 goals for this year?
2. Who do you want to be this year -so how will you behave and treat your colleagues?
3. What is your life purpose – why are you here on this planet?
Keep it simple – neuro-scientists have found our brains respond well to the “Goldilocks effect” when designing...
It’s the admission of your mistakes as a leader that resonate most with those you lead or mentor. Of course it is inspiring to hear stories of you overcoming insurmountable odds, wisely handling conflict and winning through against evil opponents.
What is even more memorable are your crises, indecisions, uncertainties, failures, setbacks and disappointments. What did you learn and how did...
As a leader others need to find you credible.
Are you worthy of their trust?
Why should they be led by you? In the military we gave our lives following leaders and had to be certain they would not lead us to our deaths unnecessarily.
To be credible we need to know some fundamental questions:
1. What has shaped you and your values?
2. What have been your high points and low points in your life?
3....
Are you living your life on purpose?
If not its time to think again.
How robust and sustainable is your job?
Daniel Pink uses 3 criteria to check this:
1. Can someone else do your job cheaper and faster (in an another country eg India / China)?
2. Can a computer do your job cheaper and faster?
3. Is what I am doing (or considering doing) of value in our age of abundance?
This is why skills such...
Watch the TED talk- Susan Cain: The power of introverts. http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts.html
In her book Quiet Susan talks about how to bring out the best in Introverts and not force fit 1/2 to 1/3 of your team into the world run by extroverts where they are less comfortable.
Much of what she says makes great sense.
There is a significant enhancement that she needs...
So do you really have respect for and care for your clients? Or are they really just a source for your own wealth and when they are not in the room are you disdainful, disrespectful and rude about them?
Sadly it seems that there are too many parts of corporate business, backed up by my own experience and shocking stories from some of my clients, that there are too many managers who don’t...
For years arguments have raged as to whether leaders are born or made. New research on neuroscience points strongly that our experience continually shapes our neural connections in an effect known as “brain plasticity”. Leaders in many cases can be MADE.
So you CAN teach old dogs new tricks. With repetition and commitment, new neural connections are made and leadership behaviours altered....
Your most powerful question to encourage you and others to take action is “when?”. It really nails you to avoid procrastination and reduces stress. You and they now have a date in the diary and can take it out of your “to do list” and swilling about your brain.
I enjoyed Ian Cooper’s simple but effective book “Just ask the right questions to get what you want”....
Are you interested in designing a better life?
Have you stopped to check the assumptions you are making about the job you do and the life you lead?
Are you really fulfilled and happy with the work you do and the relationships you have?
Far too many people and especially apparently successful leaders (admired and envied by others) are living lives of quiet desperation.
They compromise and suppress...
Time for Introverts to fight back! For too long the world has literally been dominated by extroverts. The introverts can’t get a word in edge ways. The loudest voices have dominated and often held sway.
However with “Time to Think” – an approach designed by Nancy Kline, as introverts you will have the space to share your views, opinions and freshest thinking. You will surprise...
Your organisation is “making cuts and managing costs”.
That means people will be “made redundant, sacked, or fired” and loose their incomes which effect their families and confidence. Since this is widescale they may not get another job easily.
What is so tough is that good leaders have built strong friendships with their direct reports. They may have played golf together,...
How accountable are you REALLY in large organisations? The scale and complexity of global organisations encourages them to fudge accountability and responsibility. Everyone is responsible; so no one is responsible.
Various systems are experimented with; matrix organisations with accountability in 3 different planes, upwards sideways and diagonally. If you don’t understand that, then you’re...