How negativity affects your job & your thinking skills
Leadership coach, Kevin Watson, helps us recognise the importance of reducing our negativity at work and shares 4 ways to become less negative
Tag: leadership
June 6, 2023
Your business needs to save money? Step forward data leaders!
Why data & analytics teams are almost uniquely well-positioned to help businesses at a time of economic crisis when they need to save money.
Are you a hero or a villain as a leader during cutbacks?
Are you a hero or a villain in your organisation due to your response to cost cutting challenges? Which should you be? What is needed now?
Designing your life – a great book to get unstuck in your career
How “Designing Your Life” by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans can help you get unstuck in your career and start designing the one you really want.
Avoid these false economies when you reduce data team costs
Sharing 3 false economies that data leaders need to resist. Each are typical cost challenges faced by data leaders that incur hidden costs.
How data leaders can cut costs without reducing value
Sharing my experience of how data leaders can cut costs without reducing value, even during a recession, because we have been here before.
Do you see your role in business as a calling?
Could being a leader in a business be more than a route to higher rewards or social status? Could it be a moral calling, a vocation? Learn how
Connecting with purpose in your work as a data leader in business
How I connected with purpose & meaning in the work I did as a data leader, rather than drawing it from corporate values or virtue signalling.
What is your motivation as a leader? Why do you do what you do?
Why do you do what you do? Guest blogger, Tony Boobier, explores the question: What is your motivation as a data leader (and does it matter)?
Learning from Advent – reflections for data & analytics leaders
Reflections for data & analytics leaders inspired by the season of Advent. How can data leaders develop virtues that help them in their roles?
Is your actionable insight being limited by your communication skills?
Why language skills and words also matter when communicating actionable insights. Why data leaders need to master words as well as statistics
How Softer Skills are relevant for Data Leaders, Part 8: Visual Story
Step 8 in our softer skills model (Visual Story). How are softer skills in this area relevant for data leaders? How they can develop others…