Events can come thick and fast in senior leadership. They arrive from nowhere, take over your working life and throw your best laid plans out of the window.

When so much is suddenly at risk what can you do?

Here’s four ‘how tos’ for dealing with terrifying unpredictability.

When you work 12+ hours a day every day with no or little break, and when you already feel like you have delegated all you can then you need another message.

Here’s four ‘how tos’ for delegation.

Why does delegation matter? It is a simple question but it is not asked often enough. Most of the time your list of things to do though it is yours to oversee, and within that lies a myriad of decisions large and small.

Every senior leader has their hidden struggles.

Many are very good at keeping it that way. Yet hiding them does not make them go away.

How does ‘swamped and undersupported’ become the norm and what can be done about it?

How to turn the basket case into the trail blazer?

January is the time to think BIG. If you ever want to plan your own mini revolution for your professional life the time is now.

Avoid looking at where you are now and adding a few bells and whistles.

Planning the odd adjustment is not enough at the start of a calendar year.

The Christmas break is often reached at the point of exhaustion. When that initial period fades opportunities will arise for your very best thinking.

How to find your best thoughts over the break?

It’s the Wizard of Oz moment. Is that all there is to it?

Writing reports can take MANY HOURS of a senior leader’s time.

This blog focuses on those which go to trustees, boards of directors and other forms of governance, often on a quarterly basis.

This blog covers five key points about how you can make the most of all your work in report writing.

When you cannot see the wood for the trees it can be very difficult to know what you need to improve as a senior leader.

With that in mind I put something together - a five minute assessment tool.

Accountability is an inevitable part of the job. The more senior you go the more stakeholders get involved in this process, including those who you may only see rarely.

Each meeting of this type, and report to go with it, is wasted if only used once. It can be used in multiple ways with multiple audiences, including for ways which make your life as a senior leader easier.

Some public sector senior leader job descriptions are INSANE.

The perpetual time crunch is a very common issue.

Three key challenges are described here.

I enjoyed talking to Lucas Kemper from Haringey Education Partnership on the HEP Talks podcast.

The final blog on Generation Z characteristics. For employers who are able to show what the future will look like for their employees there is much to build upon.

There may be plenty of jobs around. The same cannot be said of careers.

Gen Z is the generation which attended the secondary schools I led from 2006 to 2018. In recent years I have seen Generation Z described in ways I did not recognise, or appreciate.

This is the first of a series of blogs about them and their huge, as yet mostly untapped, potential to meet the challenges of today.