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Reflecting on 8 Years: Valuable Lessons from Gareth Southgate's Leadership🌟 As Gareth Southgate steps away from his role as England manager after an impactful 8-year tenure, it's essential to recognize the valuable lessons he leaves behind. His leadership journey offers insights applicable not only to football but also to professional growth and resilience. 1. Resilience in the Face of Adversity:   - Southgate faced highs and lows, from World Cup semi-finals to heartbreaking defeats. His ability to bounce back, adapt, and maintain a positive mindset is commendable.   - Lesson: In our careers, setbacks are inevitable. Embrace them as opportunities for growth and learning. 2. Empathy and Team Bonding:   - Southgate prioritized team unity, fostering a sense of belonging and camaraderie. He understood that a cohesive team performs better.   - Lesson: As leaders, empathy and genuine connections with team members lead to higher productivity and job satisfaction. 3. Balancing Tradition and Innovation:   - Southgate modernized England's playing style while respecting its rich football heritage. He blended tradition with fresh ideas.   - Lesson: In any industry, innovation is crucial. Embrace change while honoring the foundations that got you there. 4. Handling Public Pressure with Grace:   - Managing a national team comes with immense scrutiny. Southgate's poise under pressure exemplifies leadership.   - Lesson: Stay composed during challenging moments. Your response matters more than the situation itself. 5. Developing Young Talent:   - Southgate gave opportunities to young players, nurturing their potential. He believed in investing in the future.   - Lesson: Mentorship and talent development create a lasting legacy. Invest time in grooming the next generation. 6. Admitting Mistakes and Learning from Them:   - Southgate owned up to decisions that didn't work out. His humility and willingness to learn set an example.   - Lesson: Acknowledge mistakes, learn, and evolve. Vulnerability is a strength. 7. Community Engagement and Social Impact:   - Beyond football, Southgate championed social causes. His leadership extended beyond the pitch.   - Lesson: Leaders have a responsibility to impact society positively. Use your platform wisely. As Gareth Southgate embarks on a new chapter, let's celebrate his contributions and apply these lessons to our own professional journeys. Thank you, Gareth, for inspiring us all. #Leadership #Resilience #Teamwork #ProfessionalGrowth

At All Blacks Performance Labs, we pride ourselves on delivering high-performance insights from diverse industries and regions. Our recent three-day engagement in Montpellier, France with ALTRAD’s global leadership team exemplified this. Altrad, the principal sponsor of all our teams in Black, and a global enterprise of 65,000 employees across various sectors from scaffolding to energy, provided a rich learning environment. This session, led by our executive coach, Simon Curran, focused on high-performance mindsets, introducing a compelling model: Performance = Potential – Distractions.  A key takeaway was managing the internal voices that affect our performance—the practical and encouraging 'Coach' versus the punishing and critical 'Critic', terms powerfully coined by author Ethan Kross. Understanding and mastering these voices can be the turning point from merely settling to achieving the remarkable, regardless of whether you're a novice or a top-tier professional. The discipline to develop and implement strategies to manage these distractions is crucial. Our workshop offered practical tools used by the world's elite performers, earning high praise from Altrad Co-CEO, Ran Oren, who described the All Blacks Performance Labs as "the best team training I have done anywhere in the world." New Zealand Rugby, Sean Fitzpatrick, Propel Performance Group, Nerolie Curran, Ben Anderson.

⏳ Last chance to join our ‘Towards University-Business Cooperation Vision and Culture’ course! Struggling to build lasting partnerships that drive real impact for your institution? This is your final opportunity to gain the skills and strategies to transform your approach to collaboration and tackle the challenges head-on. By joining this course, you will:  ☑ Create a clear vision for your institution’s external engagement  ☑ Overcome barriers to collaboration by understanding how to shift your institution’s culture   ☑ Design a strategy to turn disconnected efforts into cohesive, long-term partnerships   ☑ Improve your institution’s impact by learning how to effectively communicate your vision both internally and externally Don’t miss this final opportunity to address key challenges. This course will give you the tools to move beyond roadblocks and make real change at your institution. 👉 Last chance to get your ticket: https://shorturl.at/CbsNM 📆 'Towards University-Business Cooperation Vision and Culture' starts 24 October #UniversityBusinessCooperation #LeadershipDevelopment #InstitutionalImpact #ProfessionalDevelopment #UBC #TrainingCourse

📣 Check this out! I've worked with Dr. Heather Hodges for the last several years. She has been an integral part of my career growth and professional development, from leading large teams to running a business. I cannot recommend her company more highly. Some of the most impactful coaching included: ◾Professional public speaking ◾Emotional intelligence & Enneagram ◾Leadership development ◾Cultivating team professional development Anyone can be a leader. Be a leader who embraces refinement. Inspiration will follow.

Moving on. After 5 years involvement with #Takepointtraining it's time for me to move on to greener pastures. When change is the only constant in life you need to develop, and maintain, the resilience, flexibility and positivity to see each change not as a threat but as an opportunity. It's what I talk to my clients about, because it's how I live my life and authenticity really, really matters. I've thoroughly enjoyed my time with Take Point and am immensely proud of the work that my colleagues and I have pioneered in the leadership, teamwork and change-management space. Having our ground-breaking #STATT course be shortlisted for an #HSJ partnership award is a just outcome for something dear to my heart that has had such a hugely positive impact on the overstretched, incredible staff in the #NHS and I will never forget the moments I have been privileged to share with each and every one of them. Thank you. And in the corporate world, beset and shaped by the constantly shifting sands of commerce, challenges are found that are unique to each organisation. Because no two companies, teams or individuals are the same, no one-size-fits-all solution can be rolled out, it must be truly bespoke. Working to understand and help make sense of the challenges faced by my corporate partners has been, and continues to be, incredibly rewarding. So that's where I'll stay for now. Helping find solutions to the problems faced today and preparing individuals, teams and organisations for the next 25 years of leadership, teamwork and change. My new venture goes live very soon. I hope you'll join me in celebrating when it does. Let's enter the future together.

Come celebrate with us! We’ll talk about how and why celebration in the workplace matters and why it’s so effective. Celebrate the small wins and your team will achieve the big wins far more often and be happier doing so. To learn more about EGN Group and the celebration webinar, reach out to Nick Jonsson.

We can't wait to welcome you all tomorrow at The Business Leaders Malta Conference 2024, Mind The Gap: Connecting Generation XYZ. If you're here, be sure to pop by our stand to find out how CMBS can help you supercharge your career. We look forward to seeing you! 🙌🏻 #CMBS #ReinventingEducation #CreatingTheThinkers #CreatingTheDoers #CreatingTheLeaders #WeAreCMBS #BusinessLeadersConference #MindTheGap

In this peer group meeting for CEOs their Issue Processing was how NGOs can attract more corporate funding as well as discussing - Developing the know-how of the Management Team - Evolving Leadership Styles #egn #peergroups #makingeachotherbetter #networking

🏉 What can businesses learn from the thrilling 2024 Six Nations opening weekend? A lot, it turns out! From France's surprising stumble to England's resilient comeback and Scotland's cautionary tale, the parallels to business are striking. Just like in rugby, effective teamwork, strong leadership, and resilience are crucial in the business world. In both rugby and business, the scrum serves as a powerful metaphor for collaboration. Teamwork, leadership, and resilience are essential for success in both arenas. By embracing these principles, businesses can drive innovation, growth, and success just like a cohesive rugby team on the field. 🏆 Ready to enhance your business's teamwork, leadership, and resilience? Learn more about how The Alpha Group peer-to-peer boards can help you achieve success. Click here to find out more: https://lnkd.in/dTaN2u9 🌟 #AlphaGroup #BusinessSuccess #PeerToPeerBoards

In the short reel below we hear how the York & North Yorkshire Hospitality Junior Board has helped Olly Longbottom with his confidence and competence. Through Board meetings, mentoring, working on projects, and being out of his comfort zone in a safe space Olly has grown his confidence which will have a positive impact on him personally and the business he works in. The language used to describe hospitality needs to change. Too often the hospitality sector is described as low productivity, low skilled, poorly paid, not a proper job, "well I suppose there's always hospitality...." and much more. Now of course like any sector, some employers could and need to do more but fundamentally people need to re look at how they describe the sector. The best way to do this is to meet, listen to, and hear from the young people, the future leaders in the sector - like Olly, and Yasmine and Sophie in the previous films. If you want to find out more please DM Philip Bolson or Olly Longbottom 😀 #hospitality #futureleaders #skills #pereption