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The Lonely Leader helps existing and aspiring leaders become the best version of themselves.We believe that leadership on the outside begins within.By sharing decades of leadership experience, insights and best practice we can help you sharpen your skills.Our unique and…
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The Presence Test: How Leaders should handle work on holiday (opens the original)
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Every leader faces the same question before a holiday: switch off completely, or stay connected and check in on work? In this episode, James Rule explores a single question that cuts straight through it, does this protect my presence, or does it erode it? James revisits and refines his own advice. He argues that everyone, from employee to founder or chief executive, needs an initial complete disconnect to reset mentally, emotionally and physically, but the length of that reset is personal, and i
What your team say when you’re not in the room (opens the original)
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There are meetings happening in your organisation that you are not in. They take place in corridors, car parks, over lunch and in WhatsApp groups you do not know exist. In these conversations you would find out exactly what the staff think of the culture you have shaped and environment in which they work. Most leaders believe they have created psychological safety but the research shows there is usually a gap between the leaders perception and the reality their staff experience. In this episode
The Morning Belongs to You. So Why Are You Giving It to Everyone Else? (opens the original)
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This morning, in the first thirty minutes after you woke up, who did the morning belong to? Did it belong to you? Or did it belong to your inbox, your notifications, the news, and the chaos of getting everyone else out of the door? For many senior leaders, the answer is the latter. The morning that had the potential to set them up for everything that followed was handed over before they had even fully woken up. Nobody took it from them, they gave it away. In this episode of The Lonely Leader Pod
Seven years, seven challenges every leader faces (opens the original)
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Seven years ago James launched The Lonely Leader. In that time he's had the privilege of coaching and mentoring leaders across FTSE 100 businesses, the NHS, SMEs and the wider public and not for profit sectors. Different sectors, different titles, different pressures, and yet the same handful of challenges surface again and again. In this milestone episode he pulls together the seven challenges that clients have raised most often over the past seven years. For each one, he points you towards the
Executive Presence: The six things you control before you walk into the room (opens the original)
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A desire to improve their executive presence is a theme that James Rule discusses regularly with the clients of The Lonely Leader. In this episode he challenges the misguided belief that it is an innate trait and shares the six step road map that anybody can use to enhance their presence. Whatever meeting room you have to enter, whatever presentation you are tasked with making, embrace this plan and step forward with real confidence. RELATED EPISODES Episode 92 Leadership Essentials: Body Langua
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