Creative Leadership – Lessons from Theatre Directors
Creative Leadership – Directing Principles
The business world can learn a great deal about how to lead creative teams from the work of theatre directors. Over the last 18 months I hheld interviews with a series of terrifc theatre directors. From these conversations and building on my own knowledge and experience of both worlds, there are 8 Principles that hold […]
Hybrid Working in 2021
We are all talking Hybrid Working! It’s coming and for some it has already arrived. When people talk about hybrid working, they are usually talking about the split between working from home and from the office or a mix of people WFH and WFO (Working From the Office). We know this hybrid working is happening […]
Living and Leading with Impact
It’s all very well spending hours and months and thousands and huge amount of money and understanding your values your purpose and your mission. But far too often that never gets translated into behaviour. And ultimately it is the impact you, your colleagues and your employees have on each other and your clients that will dictate your culture, narrative and success. And as we return to the new normal, right now is the perfect time to think about the ‘new you’ at work – new ways of communicating, new choices and making a new impact.
Back to work…
More and more people are talking about the reality of going back to work. What that means and what it will look like. While on one hand we can celebrate the light at the end of the tunnel and the chance to return to what we are calling the new normal, on the other hand lots of us are experiencing anxiety at this next phase.
Let Go to Let In
It really feels like time to hit refresh. To turn the page on a tough year and reboot the system. Sometimes we need to make room for new and positive changes as well as new and positive energy in our lives.
Time to take your foot off the gas
As my dear friend and 4D colleague Katie Churchman once reminded me – write from where you’re at. I think right now a lot of us are at a tired, depleted place.
Creative Leadership – Lessons from Theatre Directors
Learning from Theatre: What Business Leaders Can Take from the Director’s Chair The pace of change today is as slow as it will ever be. As the world of work evolves rapidly, creativity, collaboration, and communication are emerging as essential qualities within teams. These shifts call for new leadership models, and one surprising yet powerful […]
Happy Holidays! Happy Christmas! Happy Happy Happy…
This Christmas, at the end of this extraordinary year full of a range of experiences, difficulties and emotions…at 4D we would like to challenge the idea of it having to only be a ‘happy’ Christmas. Because while many of us might not be able to welcome actual guests into our house this holiday, we can welcome other kinds of guests…the many, many emotions that might just be knocking on our door wanting to come in and join the party.
How Gen Z is transforming the workplace
The corporate world has been abuzz with talk about how to train the millennial generation for a while now. However, times are changing and if we want our businesses to stay ahead of the curve, it’s time we think ahead to the next generation that is growing up and rapidly entering the work force: Generation Z.