Jane Nicholson-Biss Staff

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Stakeholder Engagement Manager

The Institute of Leadership & Management is conducting research into how UK businesses can increase productivity by utilising military skills and strategies to maximise output.


Please take three minutes to complete the survey/s below.


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Please feel free to share the surveys with your networks, we will keep you posted on the results.

What are the top five leadership skills, you think everyone will need in the year ahead?

Do you listen to audiobooks? Leadership and business books scored high on the listening charts.

Thank you to David Liddle for a fantastic session today. David we have a couple of questions for you.
What about employees that although we (leadership) are ticking all the boxes David has mentioned today , these employees are still challenging as it's more attitude issues rather than competencies? How to ditch HR procedures in this case when listening and many other techniques are not enough? Many thanks

You asked and we listened!

Thank you to all the Fellows who joined our inaugural online Fellows discussion group yesterday. The discussion focused on topics from our forthcoming special public sector report (to be released shortly).

Facilitated by John Mark Williams, alongside report contributor, and institute Fellow, Dr Roni Ajao, the discussion was engaging and sparked ideas for future initiatives and meetings.

For more information watch this space...

Has anyone read Connect the Dots - The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck by Dr Christian Busch? just ordered it and interested in any feedback. What are your top January leadership reads?

What is an introduction with purpose?

From day one we are told to build a network, use social media and attend networking events. In how many networking events or meetings have you heard the phrase, “tell the group a bit about yourself?”, only to give basic headline information around job title and the organisation which you work for. For many years, I worked in events hosting many gala dinners which required spending hours researching profiles, so the ‘right’ people (matching job titles) sat next to the most relevant person for them.

Was that an introduction with purpose? No! The purposeful introduction needs to have more than just a match based upon job title or organisational background - it’s about initiating relationships that are designed to develop and last. How different would it be to be introduced to others based on your strengths and interest areas? - these introductions would save small talk and give you more confidence to engage on purposeful subjects with passion.

People are inherently interesting, especially when we know their particular career passions and what drives their motivation and goals. The diversity of personal stories, lives, career choices, and what each individual can teach us all add to a much richer experience and understanding of the working world. Networking for me is just that.

The art of making purposeful introductions

· Research. Understand the profile of the individual or organisation you are
seeking to engage with.

· Why. Why do these individuals need to be introduced to each other?

· Listen. Everyone’s story and learning hold gems of interesting information
and lead to universal progress.

· Outcomes. What are the proposed outcomes of this purposeful introduction?

· The foremost principle of etiquette for making purposeful introductions lies
in professional, engaged and thoughtful interaction, based on mutual respect.




How do YOU make purposeful introductions? Let me know in the comments.

For further information go to https://www.institutelm.com/resourceLibrary/worksheet--how-to-network.html

Fantastic quote from Prashant Handoo.

Hi everyone. I'm the Stakeholder Engagement Manager
here at The Institute, looking forward to networking with you all.