Latest News & Insights

3 11, 2020

The Power of Core Values for Leadership

2024-04-08T16:43:57+01:00

We're loving reading the latest edition of The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes & Posner. They’ve been researching for decades now on how to make extraordinary things happen in organisations. There’s so much talk all the time around organisational values and they’re important of course – provided that they’re real and not of the vanilla variety that we see so often accompanying organisational mission statements. What’s really bowled us over is Kouzes & Posner’s research showing the vital importance of our personal values as leaders – in fact they found that leaders who are clear on their own values delivered as much [...]

The Power of Core Values for Leadership2024-04-08T16:43:57+01:00
16 03, 2018

International Women’s Day

2020-11-03T18:49:30+00:00

To mark International Women’s Day 2018, we at Mojo For Leaders have combined our years of experience, training and research and our work with some amazing, inspirational female leaders to put together what we feel are the most valuable lessons in leadership for women. Here goes. You have power. Don’t be afraid of your power. Don’t be afraid of your vulnerability. Showing up fully owning both will make you a true force for positive change! Make friends with your internal critic! She(he) is there to serve a purpose. Understand that purpose and don’t let their voice drown out the  other positive, [...]

International Women’s Day2020-11-03T18:49:30+00:00
31 05, 2017

Leadership and Beyond

2020-11-03T18:52:11+00:00

I was very fortunate to attend IMI & UCC’s Masterclass Series last week where Manfred Kets de Vries shared his thoughts and research on Leadership.  He immediately sparked my interest with his term the “authentizotic” organisation which in his words is an organisation where “people find meaning in and are captivated by their work”.  With this principle in mind what is the role of the leader and how do they create and build these types of organisations? Therein started a journey of exploration of the psychology of people and our “inner theatres”.  What is our “inner theatre” and what influences [...]

Leadership and Beyond2020-11-03T18:52:11+00:00
18 04, 2017

Mojo For Leaders Top Recommended Reads for Leadership

2020-10-01T16:55:52+01:00

We've been asked to share our top 5 recommended reads for leadership but I am afraid we could only cut down our list as far as 6! Here are our 6 - we would love to hear what yours are.... 1. The Answer to How is Yes- Acting on What Matters by Peter Block. People keep asking ""How?"" as a defence against living their life, says best-selling author Peter Block. In this witty, insightful award-winning book, Block shows that many standard solutions and improvement efforts, reinforced by most of the literature, keep people paralyzed. Here he places the ""how to"" craze [...]

Mojo For Leaders Top Recommended Reads for Leadership2020-10-01T16:55:52+01:00