Never Fake Empathy: What 2Pac’s “Keep Ya Head Up” teaches about empathy Most people can tell within about thirty seconds whether a leader really cares about what they’re telling them. The words are often identical either way. “I hear you” and “that must be really hard” come out of the mouths of leaders who mean…… Continue reading Wisdom Wednesday #4
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Wisdom Wednesday #3
Never Let Ego Outshine Humility: What Kendrick Lamar’s “HUMBLE.” Teaches About Humility Every school I’ve worked in has asked its staff to be humble in some form. We ask teachers to welcome feedback after a lesson observation, to admit when a strategy isn’t working and to learn from colleagues with less experience than them. Far…… Continue reading Wisdom Wednesday #3
Wisdom Wednesday #2
What Skepta’s “That’s Not Me” teaches About Authenticity Most leaders lose themselves gradually, by becoming the version of a leader the room seems to want. This can look like you adjusting the vocabulary for one audience and the opinions for another, until the person who walks into the Monday briefing has very little in common…… Continue reading Wisdom Wednesday #2
Training Day:
When the line moves one decision at a time Training Day is my favourite film and Denzel Washington is my favourite actor, so it was inevitable that, 25 years (yes, I know!) after the film came out in October 2001, I would end up writing about Alonzo Harris, the films central character. I’ve watched it…… Continue reading Training Day:
Power To The People
Read Part 1: Born In The Dark – Performance Virtues In Action Read Part 2: Change Is Coming – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Civic Virtues In Action The 22nd Commonwealth Games, Birmingham 2022. My home town; I am immensely proud of where I am from (just in case you hadn’t caught that over the last…… Continue reading Power To The People
Change is Coming
Here is the link to PART 1 (incase you missed it) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion The British Commonwealth… 56 countries. They are among the world’s biggest, smallest, richest and poorest countries and home to almost 1/3 of the world’s population. I am going to sidestep the wider issue of how the Commonwealth came into existence…… Continue reading Change is Coming
Born in The Dark
Performance Virtues in Action By Adrian Mclean When we look at sport and the athletes who participate, we naturally focus on their performance and the character traits that are aligned with this. When we talk about performance virtues we are usually highlighting the traits you ‘see’ such as determination to qualify for the next round…… Continue reading Born in The Dark
Winging It
By Michelle Mclean I’ve been mulling over some ideas for a new, personal project. My intuition feels really good about it, I’m excited in a way that I’ve not been for a while and I have an abundance of ideas. I have so many ideas in fact, that I am a bit overwhelmed and not…… Continue reading Winging It
Lessons I Have Learned About Change
By Michelle Mclean In my last post, I blogged about the inevitability of change. Since then, I’ve had various conversations about why change feels so difficult. I don’t accept that all change is hard. I think we often make it harder than it needs to be because of how we frame it and because of…… Continue reading Lessons I Have Learned About Change
The Room Where it Happens
By Adrian Mclean Do you have a go-to tune that you play to psyche yourself up? I have a few, usually with heavy baselines and punchy lyrics that I can’t play when my children are in earshot! When I need to be strategic though, I play this one from the musical, Hamilton. Here’s the closing…… Continue reading The Room Where it Happens
