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What i have learnt from facilitating the Everest Simulation for Executive learners.

Covid-19 lockdown has provided me with more opportunities than normal to think.  As someone paid to assist professional managers learn, I’ve taken this opportunity to reconsider my own learning journey and to reconsider when in my career “training” would have given me real insight not gained from “experience”… and then to apply this to my executive engagements and try to rethink how I would have approached my own personal learning.… Read more

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How to transition into a leadership role

Recent extensive research has revealed a disproportionate percentage of executives were unprepared to inspire and lead themselves and others to achieve higher levels of performance in an increasingly complex and demanding global marketplace. Powerful executives are those who consistently produce excellent results while maintaining personal energy and enhancing their relationships as well as the skill and commitment of those they lead.… Read more

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8 strategies to handle the move from Functional Head to General Manager

The hardest move I ever had to make was moving from a functional head- in my case Sales Director- to General Manager.  And to be honest it was the transition that I was least prepared for.

Looking back on my previous companies, I believe that this move is the most traumatic to job candidates primarily because many of the skills that led them to be great functional heads are redundant as a new General Manager.… Read more