Leadership isn’t about the leader. It’s not just a job title. Leadership is something you work at. You don’t arrive at leadership and then stop. The key to being a better leader is putting your people first. If you are ready to take the next step in your career, learn more from Executive Coach and Leadership Development Expert, Denise Chilon.
I have been interested over the last few years to witness in my coaching conversations with leaders that they are referring more and more frequently to the phrase VUCA. Originally coined by the US military to describe the turbulent and unpredictable environment in which they operate.
The only guarantee when we step up into a bigger role, grow a business or try something new is that not everything is going to go swimmingly. Failure is never comfortable but if we embrace it instead of pushing it away, it will have a much smaller hold on us and the lives we want to live.
Ready to take the next step in your career… but not sure what’s holding you back? Here are five self limiting behaviours keeping women from stepping up into a leadership role.
Being a great leader takes practice. These 5 TED Talks will help you learn key skills and mindsets for leading your team.
I was in my mid-20s, working for a large Financial Services company in Liverpool and had recently taken over a really challenging team from another manager who had been “let go”. It was one of those great career development opportunities – although I did wonder if perhaps, they had just not been able to find anyone else! I remember going home one Friday evening after surviving my first week as a new manager thinking about how I had no idea what I was doing – and that I needed to read a “How To Be A Manager” book.
“Denise, I’ve been working on my business full time for several months. I work very hard and I am very passionate about my work but I feel like I am stuck. My business isn’t going anywhere and I am not making any profit.” Does this sound familiar? I hear this from a lot of women I coach who are frustrated…
Investing in coaching could mitigate the risk of a diminished talent pool after Brexit, says Denise Chilton. Research from the CIPD has found that Brexit will make it harder to recruit qualified talent. 72% of HR professionals expect the competition for talent to escalate and 61% predict further difficulty recruiting senior and skilled employees. Executive Coach Denise Chilton…
Female entrepreneurs are a vital part of the UK’s business community, says Denise Chilton Executive business coach, Denise Chilton, is one of only 90 people to be accepted onto the Santander UK Breakthrough Women Business Leaders’ Mentoring Programme. Powered by Women Ahead, a social enterprise working with organisations to improve workplace diversity and inclusion, the pioneering mentoring programme will see…
The FL National Awards & Summit recognize and promote female talent in the UK Denise Chilton of Denise Chilton Ltd has been shortlisted as a regional finalist in the Diversity Champion of the Year category of the Forward Ladies National Awards & Summit, now in its 9th year and supported by headline sponsor HSBC UK. In what promises to be…
Back in April, an email landed in my inbox from Forward Ladies*. It said, “we would very much like to congratulate you on being nominated for the FL National Awards 2018”. I was as surprised as I was delighted because nobody mentioned putting me forwards. I still don’t know who it was but whoever, you are – thank you. So, I am…