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all the right movies offer plenty of cues to better leadership

May 24, 2010

NZ Herald - Gill South

Just as everyone needs a holiday every now and then to recharge, managers need to experience a fresh way of thinking occasionally - something to make them completely recalibrate the way they do things.

A chance to do that was offered this week, when the Executive Connection (TEC) - an organisation for CEOs and top managers which meets regularly to provide peer support - ran an event with international leadership expert David Hutton.

Simon O'Shaughnessy, chair and counsellor of the Auckland TEC group with which Hutton was doing workshops, says his group of CFOs and GMs were looking for guidance on emotional intelligence.

These leaders, ranging in age from the mid 30s to early 50s, still have 10 to 15 years of "business change" in front of them, says O'Shaughnessy.

They are also looking for ideas on grooming successors. "They have too much work to do, they are interested in learning ways of people around them taking on more responsibility," says O'Shaughnessy, an experienced business mentor who has run large businesses in Britain.

"A lot of these guys can do strategic development, planning, the financial side, but they are interested in, 'How can I communicate and be nimble in my thinking?'," he says.

"They are not after more information, they are looking for practical outcomes, with relevancy to their daily lives. We've got enough data, we've got enough information."

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