Leading People

Send us Fan Mail Why would a capable, experienced person need a coach? If you’re good at your job, know yourself reasonably well and can solve problems, shouldn’t you be able to work things out for yourself? Perhaps. But some of the most important things may be the hardest to see from inside your own thinking. In this reflection episode of Leading People, Gerry Murray revisits conversations with Joseph O’Connor, Marcia Reynolds, Jonathan Reitz and Paula King to explore what coaching can...

Send us Fan Mail What really makes the difference when leadership gets difficult? Not when the plan is working. Not when the numbers look good. But when the pressure rises, the situation is unclear, and other people are looking to you for direction. Peter Davies has spent decades in senior leadership roles across DHL, SN Brussels Airlines, Air Malta and other complex organisations. Looking back, he has come to a conclusion that challenges the way many leaders think about performance: The soft...

Send us Fan Mail What if the problem with workplace learning isn’t a lack of content, courses or technology? What if we’re still confusing access to information with actual learning? In this episode of Leading People, Gerry Murray welcomes Stella Collins back to explore how people really learn at work and what organisations need to do differently if they want learning to translate into better performance. Stella’s new book, The Learning Organization, challenges some familiar assumptions ab...

Send us Fan Mail AI is getting faster, smarter and more capable. But are we asking it to solve the right problems? In this episode of Leading People, Gerry Murray welcomes Chris Soderquist back to explore what he calls Systemic Intelligence and why it may matter more than ever in an AI-driven world. Chris argues that many of the challenges leaders face are not really standalone problems at all. They sit inside wider systems, shaped by relationships, feedback loops, assumptions and mental mode...

Send us Fan Mail Why do some people seem to command attention before they’ve really said anything, while others struggle to make an impact even when they know their material? They may have attended all the usual communication and presentation courses, but somehow something is still not quite working. In this summer reflection episode of Leading People, Gerry Murray revisits the wisdom and advice of two former guests, Kate Walker Miles and Caroline Goyder, both of whom originally trained in th...