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title: Cranfield Executive Development Blog | leadership (4)
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<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/learning-gave-me-the-confidence-to-own-my-leadership-style>

![“Learning gave me the confidence to own my leadership style”](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/IAI_Hero_image.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/CGMD%20Blog/Images/CGMD%20Images/Logos/Marques-SoM.png) By [Cranfield School of Management](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/cranfield-school-of-management)

## [“Learning gave me the confidence to own my leadership style”](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/learning-gave-me-the-confidence-to-own-my-leadership-style)

#### Pursuing further learning and professional development can have a positive effect on your career in terms of improved...

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [reflections](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/reflections), [career](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/career)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/what-can-skeletons-tell-us-about-leadership>

![What can skeletons teach us about leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/ED%20Blog/skeletons%201.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Coachingonthego.png) By [Dr Phil Renshaw and Jenny Robinson](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/dr-phil-renshaw-and-jenny-robinson)

## [What can skeletons teach us about leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/what-can-skeletons-tell-us-about-leadership)

**Someone suggested to me that this picture demonstrates that deep down we are all the same, when we bother to reach beyond the...**

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [leadership skills](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership-skills)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/stop-fixing-and-start-listening>

![Stop Fixing and Start Listening](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/ED%20Blog/ED%20Images/OEP/Listening%20Image%20Blog.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Coachingonthego.png) By [Dr Phil Renshaw and Jenny Robinson](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/dr-phil-renshaw-and-jenny-robinson)

## [Stop Fixing and Start Listening](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/stop-fixing-and-start-listening)

**Whether you know it or not, you and your team are smack in the middle of grieving. Covid-19 has put a violent full stop in all...**

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [coaching](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/coaching), [skills](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/skills)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/its-time-to-sack-your-coach-too>

![It’s time to sack your coach too!](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/ED%20Blog/ED%20Images/OEP/Coaching%20Image%20Blog.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Coachingonthego.png) By [Dr Phil Renshaw and Jenny Robinson](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/dr-phil-renshaw-and-jenny-robinson)

## [It’s time to sack your coach too!](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/its-time-to-sack-your-coach-too)

So there might appear to be a theme here given the topic of our last blog ([sack your mentor blog](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/its-time-to-sack-your-mentor)), but actually the intent is...

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [coaching](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/coaching), [skills](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/skills)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/from-theatre-director-to-the-corporate-world-business-lessons-from-the-stage>

![From theatre director to the corporate world – business lessons from the stage](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/IAI_Blog_Image_DT.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Diana%20Theodores.png) By [Dr Diana Theodores](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/dr-diana-theodores)

## [From theatre director to the corporate world – business lessons from the stage](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/from-theatre-director-to-the-corporate-world-business-lessons-from-the-stage)

**Great performances make me want to jump from my seat and applaud. They make me feel more awake, more passionate, more motivated,...**

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [influence](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/influence), [impact](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/impact),

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/5-ways-to-prepare-your-supply-chain-for-a-post-covid-19-world-now>

![Five ways to prepare your supply chain for a post Covid-19 World now.](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/ED%20Blog/ED%20Images/OEP/SC%20%28Supply%20Chain%29/SC%20Covid19%20Blog%20Image.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/wilding.jpeg) By [Professor Richard Wilding OBE](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/professor-richard-wilding-obe)

## [Five ways to prepare your supply chain for a post Covid-19 World now.](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/5-ways-to-prepare-your-supply-chain-for-a-post-covid-19-world-now)

**The Covid-19 pandemic has put the nature of global supply chains into sharp relief: how free and open movement of goods and...**

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [management](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/management)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/its-time-to-sack-your-mentor>

![It’s time to sack your mentor](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/ED%20Blog/ED%20Images/OEP/Mentor%20Image%20Blog.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Coachingonthego.png) By [Dr Phil Renshaw and Jenny Robinson](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/dr-phil-renshaw-and-jenny-robinson)

## [It’s time to sack your mentor](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/its-time-to-sack-your-mentor)

**We are all witnessing enormous changes to the world that we work in through the impact of COVID-19. It is way too early to tell...**

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [mentoring](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/mentoring), [skills](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/skills)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/on-losing-and-regaining-sense>

![On losing and regaining sense](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/LookUp.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/IbratDjabbarov-1.png) By [Ibrat Djabbarov](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/ibrat-djabbarov)

## [On losing and regaining sense](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/on-losing-and-regaining-sense)

#### I like watching how my kids with a few toys in their hands, and their imagination at play, can create elaborate battles with...

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [reflections](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/reflections)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/what-people-need-right-now-from-their-leaders>

![What people need right now from their leaders](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/connection.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Sophie.png) By [Sophie Bennett](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/sophie-bennett)

## [What people need right now from their leaders](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/what-people-need-right-now-from-their-leaders)

#### Wherever in the world you live and work, we are all in a scary place right now. More than ever, people are looking to their line...

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [management](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/management)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/responding-to-the-coronavirus-crisis-a-strategic-approach-to-building-and-strengthening-organizational-resilience>

![Responding to the Coronavirus Crisis: A Strategic Approach to Building and Strengthening Organizational Resilience](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/ricardo-gomez-angel-GsZLXA4JPcM-unsplash-1.jpg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/David.jpg) By [Professor David Denyer](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/author/professor-david-denyer)

## [Responding to the Coronavirus Crisis: A Strategic Approach to Building and Strengthening Organizational Resilience](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/responding-to-the-coronavirus-crisis-a-strategic-approach-to-building-and-strengthening-organizational-resilience)

#### As I write this article, I am reflecting on the fact that just last week, I was in a meeting discussing a global conference...

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/leadership), [reflections](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/topic/reflections)

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