News: Legitimate Leadership’s New Programme – Safety Leadership Excellence In Practice

If you have a safety problem, you have a people problem. And If you have a people problem, you have a leadership problem. Legitimate Leadership has developed a 6-8-month intensive Safety Leadership Excellence In Practice programme which focuses on leaders enacting changes in themselves. The programme starts with an Introductory workshop focusing on what safety...

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March 2024 – Question Of The Month

Question: Is one style of leadership appropriate for all individuals and all phases of an organisation, from start up to maturity? Answer: Yes, leadership style is (that is, the intent to give). However, it takes a high level of different skills in my opinion to be a start-up leader to a cash-cow leader. Start-ups require massively...

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Safety Leadership – The Difference That Makes the Difference

Representing Legitimate Leadership, I presented a paper at IChemE’s recent Hazards 33 conference in Birmingham, UK. The paper explored the role of leadership when applied in a safety context, and indicated how Legitimate Leadership’s fundamental approach can be used as a basis for safety improvement. Consultants at Legitimate Leadership have first-hand experience of applying our...

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February 2024 – Question Of The Month

Question: How do you, and should you, adjust your leadership approach for different generations and different work ethics? Answer: You adjust your leadership style to the person you are leading, full stop. If you have a genuine interest in them as a person then you will learn about who they are and what burns inside...

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Gallup Finds Employees Who Trust Their Leadership Are Four Times As Likely To Be Engaged

COMMENT BY WENDY LAMBOURNE ON THIS ARTICLE: The latest validation of the Legitimate Leadership principles comes from Gallup’s 2023 survey of employees’ perceptions of their interactions with their managers. Highlights were firstly the link between trust in leadership and employee engagement and retention. Secondly, the finding that a huge 70% in employee engagement is attributable...

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News: A New Edition Of The Legitimate Leadership Book

The first edition of the book which was written by Wendy Lambourne, founder of Legitimate Leadership, to fully describe the Legitimate Leadership model – itself called Legitimate Leadership – has been updated in a second edition – now called Legitimate Leadership In Action. Although most of the content is fundamentally unchanged, the second edition update...

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Is One Style Of Leadership Appropriate For All Individuals And All Phases Of An Organisation, From Start-Up To Maturity?

You may experience very different strategic and operational leadership challenges depending on your stage in the business lifecycle. But whatever your business, the characteristics of an effective people leader remain broadly the same. To run a successful business, broadly speaking one needs three kinds of leadership: Strategic leadership – assessing opportunities and threats in the...

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January 2024 – Question Of The Month

Question: How do you keep people motivated when the metrics are going south and management’s response is to impose the following cost savings on everything: a recruitment freeze, no bonuses, no promotions, no travel, no spending on training, etc? Answer:  Move away your focus from the three small p’s (parking, pension and pay), towards the three...

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A New Edition Of Legitimate Leadership

The first edition of the book which was written by Wendy Lambourne, founder of Legitimate Leadership, to fully describe the Legitimate Leadership Model – itself called Legitimate Leadership – has been updated in a second edition – now called Legitimate Leadership In Action. The first edition was published in 2012; the second edition in December...

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The Kind Of Person That People Are Motivated By

The kind of person that people are motivated by is there for their people, not the other way round. They are in the relationship to ‘give’ to their people not ‘take’ from them. More specifically, they have a sincere and genuine concern for the wellbeing of those in their charge (care for them) and enable...

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News: Legitimate Leadership’s New Programme – Safety Leadership Excellence In Practice

If you have a safety problem, you have a people problem. And If you have a people problem, you have a leadership problem. Legitimate Leadership has developed a 6-8-month intensive Safety Leadership Excellence In Practice programme which focuses on leaders enacting changes in themselves. The programme starts with an Introductory workshop focusing on what safety...

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