The journey starts with a commitment
Carers Link East Dunbartonshire are faced with a challenge that so many charities can relate to: when you’re full to capacity, how do you make the space to focus on…
Why Giraffes have brass necks – system leadership in practice
“People coming together, you can see the leaders and organisations that are equally placed to join up and work together on stuff.” Our practical guide to system leadership features real-life…
Feeling summary?
Everyone is busy. But no-one is too busy for our quick read summaries! We began adding 50 word executive summaries to our guides a while ago. We know people are…
Annual Lasting Leadership programme open for applications
We are inviting applications for our next Lasting Leadership action learning programme. The programme is aimed at people who want to explore and develop sustainable leadership capacity in their organisation....
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Lasting Leadership: Equalities
The Lasting Leadership guide to sustainable charity leadership is now complete! Today we’re publishing part four of the series, Lasting Leadership: Equalities. You can download the guide here, updated from…
Grampian champions system change!
There’s something happening in Grampian. Long established systems and structures are being changed. Charities and public sector organisations are leading system change by championing community voices and challenging the traditional…
System capacity and leadership
Wherever you work, you’re part of a wider ecosystem. It’s made up of other people, communities, partners, funders and policy makers. You probably think that things would be better if…
Self-care guide out now!
Sustainable leaders look after themselves and the people around them. If our people and organisations don’t take care of themselves, they can’t do their best work for the people, communities…
Buy in – or ownership?
Organisational leaders dream of everyone ‘buying into’ their plans. Wouldn’t it be nice if your colleagues just assumed responsibility and accountability, without being told? But what does it mean in…
Our survey says…
This summer we revisited our 2017 research about the ways people use Lasting Difference resources. Once again, a great response and lots of learning! 53 people shared views in an…
*New* Lasting Leadership programme for 2021
Lasting Leadership programme opens for applications We’re offering 12 subsidised places on our transformational Lasting Leadership programme. Focused on the Lasting Leadership guide, it will help participants to: Plan succession…
The year for Lasting Leadership
Well if there was ever a year for a sustainable leadership guide, it was this one! When we launched the Lasting Leadership® guide in February, we knew it was timely….
Who knew? Your guide to managing knowledge better
You know when you study something because it’s interesting, but you’re not sure how relevant it will be? That’s how I felt about knowledge management when I did it as…
A short film – sustainable leadership
I should have been in London yesterday with the good people at Directory of Social Change. They run a great event - very welcoming and with an ever-diverse and interesting...
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Lasting Leadership lifts off!
This week we launched the Lasting Leadership guide to a full-house at the Gathering. It was fitting that its core messages about managers letting go of control and empowering their…
Fit for the next generation
In previous articles, I introduced the principles of sustainable leadership and the first two areas to address: succession planning and lateral leadership. this article, a preview of our new Lasting…
Lasting Leadership launch
There is no sustainability without sustainable leadership. We’ve been researching the topic for the last 12 months and will be launching our inspirational new ‘Lasting Leadership’ guide with a one-off…
Lasting Leadership programme opens for applications
We’re offering 10 subsidised places on a transformational Lasting Leadership programme focused on our soon-to-be published sustainable leadership guide. It will help participants to: Plan succession and capacity building in…