The Unloved leader

Brimming with Self-belief, driven by their appetite to achieve, optimistic about themselves and the future, resilient in the face of set-backs, and willing to persevere, to keep a grip until the ends are achieved.

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How to switch off from work when you go on holiday

Featuring quotes from Arabella Ellis, The Thinking Partnership Many of us find holidays more stressful than being at work. We shouldn’t, but we do. As we sit on our sun loungers, we sweat everything from the small stuff (what will a client think if I don’t answer her...

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Breaking habits

Eat your pancakes, then plan your resolution. Why Lent has all the psychological ingredients for success. If you want to successfully make a change in your life then try it over the next 40 days. Give up just one thing. To succeed at making a change we need focus. As...

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Turning goals into action

Here we will look into recent research which sheds light on the challenges of achieving the goals we set ourselves, before outlining our thinking on how to turn goals into action and really make change stick.

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Developing Leaders

In this paper we want to focus on how The Thinking Partnership understands leadership and present a brief overview of how this understanding has driven our work in identifying and developing leaders within a major FTSE 50 business.

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Revealing the real person

Why did an experienced Sales Director fail in a new role, but in a familiar market? Lack of rigour in the selection process highlights the value of investing in selection assessment.

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Mirror, mirror on the wall…

This paper explores what lies behind this strange situation: why do men and women judge men to have higher future potential, despite men having no greater strengths and being of no more impact as leaders?

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