by Gifford | Sep 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
We cannot afford to underestimate the outstanding achievement of Brampton Manor Academy this year. 95% of their 470 6th form students achieved A*/A’s. That’s phenomenal for a state school whose catchment area is mainly made up of disadvantaged immigrants and asylum...
by Gifford | Sep 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
As I intimated a few posts ago, I’m a trained musician. What I didn’t share was that musicians are taught to be masters, not servants. And masters are taught the mantra, “practice makes perfect”. Yes, musicians are taught to be perfectionists. Hello?? We are expected...
by Gifford | Aug 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
A lot of EDI work is centred on a behavioural framework. I get asked regularly to provide a toolkit of dos and don’ts. Do this, don’t do that. Say this, don’t say that. These are important, of course, as they allow us to perform KPIs around behaviours and outcomes and...
by Gifford | Aug 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Leadership is about leading people, not things – that’s management! I was doing an inclusive leadership series in Reykjavik, Iceland, and came across this Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat. It depicts the faceless, thankless, everyday civil servant who just gets on...
by Gifford | Aug 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
They lost their credibility and didn’t have the appetite to do work on themselves! We hadn’t quite gotten over the institutional racism of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club only to be landed with another scandal of egregious scale. Cricket Scotland has been weighed...
by Gifford | Aug 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Recently, I did some work with some executive leaders on Inclusive Leadership. One of the burning pains they shared was of the tendency to take over the work they’d delegated especially if it were a key task, which was not their role to deliver. So, I gave them...
