 Your organisation’s Vision is a beacon, encouraging others to follow. Not to be confused with goals or values, it represents your organisation’s unique destination.
 At the end of each year, I like to reflect on past successes and challenges – to learn from them and take this wisdom forwards. I do 2 things – firstly I create a visual diagram (as below) which helps me to focus and organise my thinking. My ‘big’ learnings usually cost me emotionally as I debate with myself how best to proceed, thinking through options, taking the impact on myself and others into account, then making and implementing a decision. So why not gain a continuous benefit from this effort?
 Out on my early morning walk recently, I was fascinated to discover a small army of green ants dragging their dinner, a piece of a large dead earth worm, up a tree – straight up, vertically – no mean effort.
 Most of us work in teams, sometimes multiple teams, both within our workplace and across other organisations. When things go smoothly, we tend not to notice – but when the team is not working well, it causes all sorts of problems.
 This is a question that I frequently ask leadership training participants and those I mentor. The responses are always geared towards people spending a much higher percentage of their time in management rather than leadership – this includes CEOs and very senior leaders. There is no ideal formula, rather I suggest knowing how you are spending your time and making sure that, the more senior you are, the more time you are spending in leadership activities.
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