Storytelling Series – Part 3: The litmus test of a good story

Leadership and management

What then are the essential ingredients of a great story? More ▶

Coaching Series - Part 4: Overcoming negative reactions

Leadership and management

Your attempts to coach fall on stony ground. How do you deal with a negative response to your coaching? More ▶

Coaching Series - Part 1: Just another management buzzword?

Leadership and management

This is the first in a series of four articles on the subject of coaching. This article highlights the benefits of coaching in the workplace. More ▶

Storytelling Series – Part 2: The power of a great story

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We explore further why stories resonate so much with people. More ▶

Coaching Series - Part 3: Ready to coach? Here's how...

Leadership and management

If you’re ready to start coaching, let us introduce you to the edoMidas 5 ’A’ coaching model. More ▶

Storytelling Series – Part 1: The Leadership Paradox - examples from pop, politics and the public eye

Leadership and management

At the heart of leadership, there is a paradox. It goes back thousands of years to the beginning of democracy. And here it is: we want our leaders to be just like us, and at the same time we want them More ▶

Coaching Series - Part 2: What's stopping you?

Leadership and management

If coaching is such a powerful way to lead and motivate people, why do so many people leaders fail to incorporate it into their daily interactions with those around them? More ▶

Empathy Series - Part 3: Building your empathy

Core skills for individuals

We answer a key question, “Is empathy something anyone can develop or is there a magic gene that means we either have it or we don’t?” More ▶

Empathy Series - Part 2: Why empathy should be at the heart of your business

Core skills for individuals

It turns out you can measure how empathetic a company is. Why does empathy have such a significant impact on business performance? More ▶

Empathy Series - Part 1: What is empathy?

Core skills for individuals

In the work we do, the topic of emotional intelligence, or EQ, comes up a lot. It’s an important skill-set for managers, leaders and pretty much anyone else who needs to build relationships with those around them. More ▶

Growth Mindset - Be like Eddie

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Psychopath or sociopath – how do you tell the difference?

Leadership and management

Are psychopaths and sociopaths ultimately the same? More ▶

Getting a tricky conversation off to a great start

Leadership and management

What we say in the opening moments of a conversation like this sets the tone for everything that follows. More ▶

Leading Complexity - Be like Sam

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Fixed Mindset - Don't be like Glenn

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Leading from Home - Don't be like Jules

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Leading from Home - Be like Alex

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Leading Complexity - Don't be like Dorian

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Yeah but... No but... Yeah but...

Core skills for individuals

One of the most aggravating turn of phrases we can use in a conversation and yet most of us will use the term, “Yes but…” on a daily basis without realising it. Why is that? More ▶

Are you a World Cup winning organisation?

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In this article we examine three things that the eventual winners will have gotten right. These are three strategic priorities, critical to the success of any organisation. More ▶

Reponsibility - Be Like Elena

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Feedback - Don't Be Like Boss

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Critical Conversations - Be Like Lin

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Walking The Talk - Be Like Fernando

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Micro Manager - Don't Be Like Ego

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Aligning Purpose - Be Like Maya

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Coaching - Be Like Martin

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Goalsetting - Be Like Tom

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Playing To Strengths - Be Like Nicola

Leadership and management

Are you trapped by your own thinking?

Core skills for individuals

Our personal resilience is being tested on a level that many people haven’t experienced before. The world we live in today is complex and the future seems more uncertain, creating higher levels of stress for many of us. More ▶

Time to think team

High performing teams

According to a recent Gallup report, only 9% of UK workers are engaged or enthusistic about their work (State of the Global Workplace Report 2022). With so much change and uncertainty in the workplace over the last few years perhaps it’s understandable? More ▶

A new style of leadership for a new generation

Leadership and management

The world we live in is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA). This term is widely used by business leaders to describe the challenges they’re facing which demand a new kind of leadership – a leadership that’s more dynamic than ever More ▶

Walking the tightrope: moving from colleague to manager

Leadership and management

You’re now in a new role, you’re accountable for others, you need to impress your line manager and reassure them that you can do this. You need to start leading the team, setting objectives and managing performance. People will be looking More ▶

Fact or fiction: How do you know?

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This article explores what you should consider when making a key business decision. More ▶

Festive feedback fatigue?

Leadership and management

If you are caught up in a frenzy of feedback requests how do you ensure you get, and give, feedback that is both meaningful and helpful? More ▶

Are people managers still relevant?

Leadership and management

It seems that being a ‘manager’ is no longer good enough. Managers are seen as an obstruction to the speed, flexibility and agility required to succeed. In truth, great managers are more necessary than ever. As a manager, here are five key things you More ▶

Creating a strengths-focused culture

Leadership and management

Research by Gallup has found that when leaders focus and invest in people’s strengths, the odds of each person being engaged increases eight-fold. More ▶

Communicate like a chameleon

Core skills for individuals

This article explains how you can influence people more effectively by communicating like a chameleon. If you want to be successful, it is important to be more mindful of how we communicate with different types of people. More ▶

Career conversations

Leadership and management

If you’re willing to kick-start a career conversation with your people, there are 3 important aspects to consider. More ▶

Leading a high performing team

High performing teams

Our 5A model of High Performance identifies 5 clear areas that you can address to position your team to achieve high performance. More ▶

Snakes in suits

Leadership and management

Is there a psychopath in your office? More ▶

The Mehrabian Myth

Core skills for individuals

If you have attended a training programme in communication skills you will most likely be familiar with a theory referred to as the 55%, 38%, 7% model developed by professor Albert Mehrabian. More ▶

4 ways to increase diversity

Leadership and management

Access to a wider talent pool, closer alignment with an increasingly heterogeneous customer base, improved decision-making and innovation. How can you achieve all of this? More ▶

5 steps to creating alignment

High performing teams

Try our quick audit…. More ▶

3 ways to actually keep your New Year's resolutions

Core skills for individuals

How do we increase our chances of making new habits stick? More ▶

Positive feedback - a nice to have or business essential?

Leadership and management

By giving positive feedback you are enhancing someone’s wellbeing and resilience so that when they encounter challenges along the way they’re less likely to become restrained by them and instead will recover and look for solutions more quickly. More ▶

Getting a bigger bang for your buck

Opinions

At edoMidas, we’ve been using the ‘virtual classroom’ to provide people with an opportunity to learn and develop from wherever they are in the world, without leaving their desks. More ▶

Are your people leading by example and walking the talk?

Leadership and management

Can we trust our political class when they list their principles and values? Will they live by them? Or will they parade them solely to garner our support and abandon them at the first opportunity? More ▶

Heading for a car crash?

Opinions

At a recent account review meeting, one of our clients talked passionately about his mobile learning apps, video bites and e-learning modules. He acknowledged our contribution to providing many of them and customising their content to his organisation. More ▶

Why matrix organisations have to be high-performing ones

Leadership and management

“There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.” Morpheus – The Matrix – 1999 More ▶

Virtual challenges, real difficulties - how to lead your team wherever they are located

Leadership and management

Technology only addresses a small part of the challenge in operating as an effective virtual team. So whether your team is located across different locations in one country or across international borders, here are a few tips on how to lead More ▶

Who is making pearls for you?

Opinions

A little less conversation; who is really listening?

Core skills for individuals

Dealing with tricky issues – without messing up!

Core skills for individuals

Do you sometimes have to give people negative feedback or resolve a sticky issue? If so, you might be one of millions who dread the prospect of that kind of conversation, wishing it would just go away. Knowing what to do More ▶

The 7 deadly sins of tackling a performance issue

Leadership and management

Giving honest feedback, tackling a performance issue or dealing with conflict are conversations that are critical to every business. Yet they are also the kind of conversations that quickly become charged and uncomfortable. More ▶

Resilience Exercise 8: Keep your promises

Core skills for individuals

It’s the worst thing in the world when as a parent you make a promise to your kids that you can’t keep. To look into the beady eyes of a disappointed child whose faith in you has taken a temporary but More ▶

Resilience Exercise 7: Reach out

Core skills for individuals

The strongest finding to emerge from research is that human beings are social creatures who thrive on close relationships and community. Happier people have better relationships, be it with family, friends, colleagues or through faith and interest communities they belong to. More ▶

Resilience Exercise 6: Get high on giving

Core skills for individuals

It is well documented that ‘giving’ makes you feel better than ‘receiving’. More ▶

Resilience Exercise 5: Learn to happy talk

Core skills for individuals

Do you sometimes get a compliment only to brush it off as if it’s not important? Do you sometimes forget to mention the positives you have noticed in others only to focus on the negatives? More ▶

Resilience Exercise 4: Don't keep up with the Kardashians!

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In 1972, the Kingdom of Bhutan, which is nestled in the mountains between India and China, invented their own Gross National Happiness (GNH) index, using psychological wellbeing as a measure of good governance. More ▶

Resilience Exercise 3: Tame your monkey mind

Core skills for individuals

It is now a known fact that thought comes before feeling. That means negative thoughts start negative feelings, not the other way around as is commonly believed. So you end up feeling what you are thinking. More ▶

Resilience Exercise 2: Wake up and smell the roses

Core skills for individuals

Research psychologists have demonstrated that 90% of our happiness is about how we see our world and only 10% is to do with our life circumstances. More ▶

Resilience Exercise 1: Thank yourself happy

Core skills for individuals

So you think you know what makes you happy? More ▶

Leading high performance

Leadership and management