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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.
Autism is a complex medical syndrome. We need to be careful in how it is stigmatised. The National Autistic society defines it as difficulty with social communication, interaction and imagination. On the spectrum is Aspergers syndrome where individuals find it hard to read body language, signals, or tone of voice.
Some leaders who do not have autism appear to display similar traits and may have...
In his audiobook ” your brain at work” David Rock shares some helpful insights about why we act as we do in meetings at work. Our initial brain wiring sees new colleagues as threats, initiating the ” fight or flight” response.
Building trust comes from shared hardships and opening up on common challenges and past experiences. Then these individuals become business friends...
Think twice before pressing “send” on that email. Even in drafting this blog I accidentally sent it before I had finished! Many of the executives I know have unwittingly offended colleagues or clients by sending emails which were misunderstood.
How can we avoid this unintended blunder? The consequences are severe and take months to unravel an email which took 5 minutes to write and send.
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I really enjoyed a Harvard Business review article on the “competing commitment” between what people say they want/ believe in and their actions. Often there are untrue limiting assumptions which they are living believing them to be true.
For example one board member claimed he wanted to aggressively grow the business, yet his actions kept his department’ profits and sales strong...
The “critical difference between classes” as Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman pointed out on his recent UK tour, ” is not so much intelligence, as readiness to learn”.
The key seems to be the environment in which people are brought up and work and the amount of appreciation compaired to the amount of negative criticism they receive.
To learn more about appreciation...
Do you work with or for a business psychopath? How would you ever know? How can you manage them, or mitigate the risks they can cause you and your organisation? This excellent book by Paul Babiak and Robert Hare is illuminating and chilling. Some early indicators:
They are absolutely charming when they need to be
They know how to read people like books
They are scheming and duplicitous
They know...
In the article in Business week I expand on the concern I have about the dearth of good managers and prevalence of grey leaders. Leadership inspires and motivates us to go the extra mile for someone and our organisation. Managers are good at organisation, structure and transactions, but do they leave a positive memorable impression on you? You can read about it at http://content.yudu.com/A1qim...
Below is the link to the feature Mikaela Roche recorded with Jonathan, which was played on both BFBS Radio and BFBS Radio 2. Well worth listening to:
http://audioboo.fm/boos/250080-radio-interview-from-british-forces-broadcasting-services
The piece was introduced by the presenter with a full cue……..
Jonathan Perks MBE served as an Army Officer with the Green Howards, the Scots Guards...
A friend of mine worked in 2010 in a management role within a Government department. After 3 months he had achieved all his objectives and tasks for the following 12 months. He had exceeded all his targets. This was embarrassing. It highlighted that his superiors and peers were working at a very pedestrian pace. Fundamentally it was the worst stereotype of civil servants, who do just enough to...
As Oliver Johnston says “when you dont have enough, more is good.
When you have enough, or more than enough is more good?”
The leaders I know (and indeed I myself) have enough, or more than enough,
so what drives us to want more?
How would we be if we were satisfied with enough and good enough?
Assume some Partners in a global professional services firm are charged out at £500 an hour (very conservative). If 12 of them meet for an ineffectual meeting then that costs the firm £6,000 in lost revenue and at what added value? That depends on how well the meeting is manged and whether it achieves its purpose.
In too many firms you could be forgiven to think that people are paid to be busy...
As young managers, I and my peers were swift to criticise those in the CEO roles. We had all the ideas, energy, passion and few of the real responsibilities. “Why dont they do this or that?” we would question amongst ourselves. We are “too soon old and too late smart” as the New York saying goes. Where does a CEO find their wise mentor or trusted leadership advisor? Do...
This is not the moment to have a crisis of leadership in the UK. Talk to me to use effective techniques to get adversaries to agree the best for the country’s future
The Goldman Sachs potential scandle raises the question of corporate greed again and just how much profit is enough. How much do you think is enough for you?
I found Steve Jobs very inspiring and also moving in his address at Stanford University. I hope you enjoy it too – Visit the link –
http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html
A very simple fable to read it will probably take you no more than 4 hours. Key themes:
Plan and prepare before your meetings
daily five-minute huddles
weekly tacticals
monthly strategics
quarterly offsites
surface conflict and build passion and energy
The finest leaders have a very clear set of values and beliefs and principles by which they lived their lives and lead others. Such clarity is very attractive to follows and creates a powerful sense of personal energy, calm and wisdom.
The absence of meaning and purpose for a leader is a deadly virus which infects a team and potentially the whole organisation.
So what do your followers say about...