“For the third year in a row, leadership soared to become one of the most pressing talent challenges faced by global organisations.” So says the Deloitte Global Trends report. The report highlighted: “Companies are struggling to develop leaders at all levels and are investing in new and accelerated leadership models.” With the pace of business […]
We were delighted to attend the HR Directors Summit in Birmingham earlier this month where we exhibited for three days and Jude spoke on Leadership Beyond Measure – a collective leadership approach based on trust and transparency. Here is a short video capturing our experience of the event. If you would like a copy of […]
Business leaders can learn much from horses about teamwork and leadership. In our Leadership with Horses workshops, we take clients out of the office to work with horses. We share a leadership model that the horses use to create cohesive teamwork. It involves three positions of leadership and we will explore Leading from behind in more detail […]
One of the trends in leadership is collective or shared leadership which involves leading as one collective team rather than seeing leadership as an individual and personal directive. Whilst the concept isn’t new, there needs to be a new approach to it or it will fail just as the self-directed work teams did in the […]
We can learn much from horses about teamwork and leadership in business. In our workshops with horses, we share a leadership model that the horses use to create cohesive teamwork. It involves three positions of leadership and we will explore Leading from the front in more detail in this post. Many of our clients have […]
Did you know? That Emma is a competitive classical rider and she regularly competes with Rchi? This is Emma and Rchi riding on the right with Rchi’s brother. This weekend, Emma and Rchi competed in the Iberian Performance Show. Rchi won every class he entered – Best Ridden Gelding, Best Low School Horse (for horses […]
30 businesses across the Midlands recently celebrated completing the Aston Programme for Small Business Growth – a programme specifically designed to support owner-managed companies plan for high future growth. Emma represented The Leadership Whisperers in this programme, attending weekly workshops from Feb to June 2015 on a range of topics including marketing, innovation, leadership, HR, […]
The following is an extract from Jude’s book Leadership Beyond Measure and explores how you can give others an opinion without losing sight of your own opinion too. As a novice horse owner, I’ve not done the usual British Horse Society training, and my methods may appear unconventional to most horse owners. I’ve learned by […]
The following is an extract from Jude’s forthcoming book Leadership Beyond Measure: Profound learning with horses to transform leaders and business. My driving force I desire peace in the world. It’s my driving force. Most people want peace even though it doesn’t always look that way. Conflict arises out of unskilled behaviour. When we do […]
We are delighted to launch The Leadership Whisperers brand and website. After collaborating together since May 2014, Jude and Emma have officially launched their new partnership as The Leadership Whisperers. People often ask us if we are horse whisperers. We certainly don’t think we are. Whilst we care for our horses as naturally and compassionately […]
