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Resources to improve leadership skills

Practical insights and tools to support your leadership development

At Mind Values Leadership, we believe leadership development should be practical, human, and thought-provoking. This blog is designed to provide resources to improve leadership skills, spark new thinking, and encourage leaders to take the brave next step.

You’ll find articles, tools, and reflections drawn from our work with leaders and organisations, helping you navigate the complexity of leadership with greater confidence and clarity.

Are you leading the person in front of you?

Almost every leader has a default. Some explain and direct. Some ask questions and wait. The style itself is rarely the problem; it’s that we do it without thinking about who’s in front of us.

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What leaders can learn from elite sport and the power of the 1%

What makes one person a winner in a crowded competitive field? It’s almost never one single dramatic moment, luck on the day, or talent alone. It comes down to small things done repeatedly; to attention pointed at the right place at the right time.

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The art of saying no

Protecting your capacity doesn't mean damaging relationships. Done well, it does the opposite. People trust a considered “no” far more than a resentful “yes”.

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What’s really going on behind the scenes in a ‘dysfunctional’ team?

Difficult teams are the same. Conflict, defensiveness and firefighting are symptoms, not causes. More often than not, what sits beneath them is a form of anxiety.

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Case Study: Leading Through High-Growth & Technical Transition

How a UK tech leader scaled from 35 to 100+ employees while shifting from a "start-up" mindset to a mature, high-performance culture.

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Do we really want people to bring their whole selves to work?

“Bring your whole self to work” is one of those phrases that sounds plausible until you stop and really think about it.

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Change Management Part 2: How to make change actually stick

The answer isn’t more energy, more communication, or even better ideas. Instead, it’s a shift in how we think about change itself.

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Change Management Part 1: The big mistakes organisations make when implementing change

When an organisation implements changes, people don’t go back to their old ways because of a lack of effort – change fails to stick because organisations have a natural resting state or equilibrium which is harder to shift.

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How to have an effective conversation in leadership

Performance management: why ‘little and often’ conversations beat box-ticking processes

Managers are busy and calendars are full, so it’s easy to rely on the structure that already exists and have people just work towards their formal review or appraisal. There is a well-developed process in place, and goals can be discussed in detail during that time. But there is a major hiccup there; performance doesn’t happen quarterly or annually, it happens every day.

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What’s on your ‘to-avoid’ list? The thinking time you keep sacrificing

The final blog in our three-part series looking at what leaders put off, often to their detriment, looks at something that sounds almost ironic for senior leaders: thinking time.

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The leadership skill that builds trust: saying “I don’t know”

This is the second blog in our three-part series exploring what ends up on leaders’ ‘to avoid’ lists. Saying “I don’t know” is high on that list, but ironically it can also be the most powerful three words a leader uses.

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What’s on your to-avoid list? The conversation you keep dodging

An uncomfortable truth we see repeatedly in coaching conversations is that what leadership avoids shapes company culture. Avoidance isn’t neutral; it creates an ‘under-the-surface’ contribution to team norms, psychological safety, performance, and trust.

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Latest Podcast Episodes

The Leadership Skill We Don’t Talk About Enough

Exploring observation as a leadership skill, and why being too close to a team, habit or way of working can make important patterns almost impossible to see.

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The Pressure You Create vs. the Pressure That Helps You Grow

Exploring the difference between pressure that drains us and pressure that actually helps us perform better.

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What Kind of Dependence Are You Willing to Hold?

Exploring the psychology underneath delegation and why it is about far more than giving someone a clear brief and trusting them to get on with it.

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Why we share these leadership resources

We don’t believe leadership is about having all the answers. It’s about asking better questions, staying curious, and creating the conditions for growth. 

This blog is one way we live out these values, sharing what we’re learning, exploring the challenges leaders face, and offering practical resources to improve leadership skills in your organisation.

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