The JMA Leadership Blog

March 23rd 2020 proved to be a pivotal point in the way we all worked and for us, how we delivered all of our leadership learning. Practically overnight Zoom and MS Teams became the new norm for how we coached, led, and learned with and from each other, all over the...

Why do salespeople find it hard to transition into leadership roles?   Over the years, the team at JMA Leadership have coached different people in a variety of industries and in a range of roles. We’ve each of us been either a senior leader or director ourselves....

You’ve done it!! You got that promotion and have taken your first line management role.  And better still – you’re managing your own team; the one you were part of yesterday, so you’ll all friends and get along really well.  It’ll be a blast, right?   Then your...

 Overview Investing in leadership development increased the confidence levels of emerging leaders in their own capacity to manage others and deal with change. It improved their engagement as a team and strengthened their alignment with the organisation’s strategic...

“How do I make sure my team (or me) don’t return to their old ways of working once we’re out of lockdown?” is a familiar question from many of our JMA clients right now. Lockdown occurred all of a sudden back in March in the UK and with it came many changes in the way...

“We’ve been forced into the largest work-from-home experiment, and it hasn’t been easy” JMA Leadership client Do online meetings (via zoom, MS Teams or any other platform) favour transactional interactions between people and limit opportunities to lead? Does working...

“There’s only one thing standing in your way … so step aside”  As the lockdown eases in the UK we’re having conversations with leaders about: how they’ve found it relatively straightforward to work with others, to get things done, to overcome whatever has been holding...

Why is it that those great leaders, the ones who role model the best behaviours, seldom get picked for senior roles in some businesses? This question came about recently during a conversation with a client about what good leadership looks like; they were thinking...

“When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience.”                                                                                                               ...

Do you ever feel that you are just too "different", or too weird, or too ordinary, or maybe even too sensitive or quirky to really be a leader, let alone a successful leader? Maybe you see all those "shiny branded leaders" out there in your business and think you...

It’s rare to find someone who hasn’t ever watched a Star Wars film*. I was facilitating a coaching skills workshops recently when the oft-quoted phrase from the Jedi Master known as ‘Yoda’ came up: ‘Do. Or do not. There is no try.’ One of the participants had said...

Does your company have a set of official values? Do you know what they are? Does it matter to you whether you know what they are? Does it matter to you whether you, and the people around you, are demonstrating those values? Does it matter to you whether those values...