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08.2021

Socia wins contract to carry out a Board effectiveness review for the Board of UK Export Finance. UKEF if the UK government’s export credit agency – which has an aim of ensuring that no viable UK export fails for lack of finance or insurance, while...

Unlocking Leadership #5 – Managing Performance

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In our last blog we discussed the challenges of establishing a new team in a new workplace. Leaders are increasingly aware that there will be real tensions balancing the needs of the individual with the needs of the team and ultimately the business. Already we are...

Unlocking leadership #4 – how do I lead my team?

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In some ways ‘how do I lead my team?’ might seem an unnecessary question for a leadership blog – after all we’ve all been working incredibly hard to lead teams over the last 14 months of lockdown and learnt a lot in the process. But as we take cautious steps along the...

05.2021

client contracts

Socia has been appointed to run an independent Board effectiveness review for the Archbishops’ council of the Church of England. The Archbishops’ Council is a charitable body, chaired jointly by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, with a purpose to...

05.2021

client contracts

Socia has been chosen to conduct a Board effectiveness review for the Government Property Agency (GPA). The GPA is a rapidly growing agency within the Cabinet Office that is responsible for managing government owned property across the whole civil service...

Unlocking leadership #3 – What do I say?

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Back in the office for the first time and I realised that the transition from home of office working is not a trivial change. It felt exciting, unsettling, and disorientating and that was just the commute! And working so close to other people will take some getting...

What Boards are missing in lockdown

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With the first steps out of lockdown, Boards are reflecting on the positives and minuses of virtual working over the last year. Here we summarise their challenge as they look ahead. Virtual working has helped Board efficiency First the positives. Board members have...

Unlocking leadership #2 – How do you look?

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In the second of our reflections on the leadership challenges of unlocking the economy, and steering teams through a phased return to a mix of office and home based working, we consider the unspoken signals you will send in your first face-to-face interactions with...

What do we talk about when we talk about trust?

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Inter-organisational trust is different to inter-personal trust. In human relationships we use the language of trust when we talk about personal loyalty, of people caring for each other in sickness and in health, and always looking after a friend’s best interests. But...

Unlocking Leadership in 2021 – post #1

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It was 12 months ago this week that we signed up for a Zoom account and started to work out how to ensure the sustainability of our business when the emerging pandemic had run its course. One element of our plan was to share our thinking and our experience with...

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