Chaos to calm: Leadership behaviours S1 E2

In this episode, Jenni delves into the broad issue of leadership – the skills and behaviours needed to avoid causing chaos in your organisation. Jenni shares the seven themes to explore when it comes to leading an organisation as well as the skills and behaviours needed to create an engaging and efficient organisation.

Find out how ego, integrity and accountability are all things we need to talk about when it comes to leadership.

Things that will help you go from chaos to calm:

Influential Internal Communication by Jenni Field

Leadership Alignment Tool: a diagnostic tool to help organisations refocus (previously called Panoptic)

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick M Lencioni

Your Oxygen Mask First: 17 Habits to Help High Achievers Survive & Thrive in Leadership & Life by Kevin N. Lawrence

To keep the conversation going, connect with Jenni on LinkedIn and Twitter; ask questions and share your thinking!

About the author:

Jenni Field

Jenni Field is an expert in leadership credibility and internal communication.

Host of the popular Redefining Communications with Jenni Field podcast and author of Influential Internal Communication, and Nobody Believes You, her work as an international speaker and coach, helps leaders and their organisations become more efficient and more engaging.

After spending 13 years working inside organisations as Head of Internal Communications and Communications Director, Jenni set up the consultancy Redefining Communications to help organisations and teams use communication to go from chaos to calm.

Since 2017 Jenni has published two books, hosted two popular podcasts that discuss leadership, communication and wellbeing and conducted research into communication with deskless workers, the role of line managers and why we follow some leaders and not others.

In 2020 she was the President of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, and she holds qualifications and accreditations in internal communication, company directorship and facilitation.

She is an impressive speaker, inspiring leader and is globally recognised in the communication industry as a force for change in the way leaders and organisations as a whole communicate with their teams.

You can find her on LinkedIn and Instagram

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