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Why Your Company’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Your People.
Are you under-estimating the power of teams to shape the success of your organisation? If you have fallen into this trap, take some...

Glenn Wallis
6 min read


How to Master 5 Paradoxes to Lead Change Effectively
The thing about change is that it is often complex, usually unique, frequently unexpected and not easily reducible. Yet, with those...

Glenn Wallis
6 min read


How to Change the Leaders of Change
If the last two years have taught businesses anything, it is that everyone in an organisation experiences change: sometimes radical;...

Glenn Wallis
4 min read


Performance management in a hybrid workplace
In this post we’re going to be looking at the latest research on a really important human capital topic, that of performance management...

Glenn Wallis
4 min read


They Laughed at Her When She Requested Coaching.
At least, they did, until her recent promotion to the C-Suite. Caroline recognised after some recent 360 feedback that whilst people...

Glenn Wallis
2 min read


Why You Should Plan For Your Organisational Transformation to Fail.
Change of all varieties (especially organisational transformation) rarely gets completed and sustained in the way we might hope and plan...

Glenn Wallis
3 min read


Curiosity never killed the cat but boredom probably did.
The curious leader has an insatiable interest in new people, new things and new experiences. They have constantly active minds as one...

Glenn Wallis
4 min read


How Can You Make Organisational Change an Individualised Experience?
Are you still sheep-dipping leaders and managers in the hope that some collective get-together, either in-person or virtually, will...

Glenn Wallis
4 min read


Can Change Leaders Turn a Transformation Effort into a ‘Game of Chicken?’
To paraphrase Herbert Yardley, ‘once the money is in the pot it is no longer yours.’ The investment you have made is history and you...

Glenn Wallis
4 min read


How is the Label ‘Organisational Change Fatigue’ Preventing Access to More Individual Energy?
Exhausted. The most common response I get to an opening question I pose senior leaders that I have the chance to speak with most days of...

Glenn Wallis
4 min read


Let Us Lead You In a Conversation About Followers
We spend a lot of time talking about leaders. Restricting the conversation to leaders & managers (henceforth ‘leaders’) misses a...

Glenn Wallis
3 min read


Less Is.
We have spent eighteen months creating the Exigence brand. We had the help of many fantastic and experienced professionals in building...

Glenn Wallis
2 min read


We've Found a Missing Link in the Change Chain
Organisations are constantly in motion. Expanding and shrinking. Accelerating and slowing down. Pursuing and following. A business...

Glenn Wallis
4 min read


Important Questions That Will Serve Your ‘Return to Work’ Considerations Well
As many businesses continue to wrestle with the “if“ and/or “how” of whether employees should head back to working on-site, there seems...

Glenn Wallis
4 min read


Decisions
We all know leaders whose thinking is constrained by their past experiences and their existing belief systems. They open problem-solving...

Glenn Wallis
4 min read


Is it Really Fair to Expect Busy Leaders to Support the Wellbeing of Their Team?
It makes sense that leaders and managers impact the productivity and engagement of those in their teams. Both negatively and positively....

Glenn Wallis
4 min read


Three Approaches to Developing Organisation-wide Sustainable Productivity
Whilst total production fell in the UK through 2020 due to the effects of the pandemic, average productivity increased marginally on...

Glenn Wallis
4 min read


How To Create Exceptional In-house Group Coaching Pt 3
Welcome to the third and final part in this mini-series on how HR, L&D and Talent colleagues can design and deliver your own in-house...

Glenn Wallis
6 min read


In-House Group Coaching Pt. 2
In the first part of this three-part series , we established why you might want to design and facilitate Group Coaching inside your...

Glenn Wallis
6 min read


How HR Can Help Leaders. At Scale.
In this first post of our three-part mini-series, we’ll look at the many good reasons why HR and L&D leaders should be considering...

Glenn Wallis
6 min read
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