Who’s The Better Leader – Gareth Southgate Or Theresa May?

Simon Mac Rory recently wrote an opinion piece comparing Theresa May and Gareth Southgate’s team leadership in achieving their goals of Brexit and the World Cup respectively. These views were featured on Forbes Online.

Sally Pearce, Forbes Online contributor, analysed Simon’s argument and mentioned his new book Wake Up and Smell the Coffee.

He goes on to set out his thinking, in depth, in a table that compares the two leaders’ effectiveness against 12 different criteria. From goal setting to leadership behaviors, from communication skills to planning strategy, Southgate comes out on top.

May, on the hand, is unapproachable, struggles to manage dissent, does not crack down on poor performers, and cannot convey her vision of Brexit.

 

Read the full article here

 

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About Simon

Simon Mac Rory is the founder and CEO of The ODD Company. It is a team effectiveness specialist organization, providing a cloud-based team effectiveness platform, TDP. It is a methodology designed to be self-serve for team leaders. Simon is an experienced international conference guest speaker on the topics of corporate team strategy, organizational development, employment law, strategic HR policy development and reflective practice in doctoral studies.

 

About the book

There is a substantial revival of teams and teamwork for the first time in 20 years. This stems from the deconstruction of the traditional workplace hierarchy, the abandonment of performance appraisal, the impact of millennials. Leading companies are pushing towards a team-centric model. However, for many others team development remains ad hoc as they fail to recognise that teams hold the answers to increased effectiveness.

Delivering improved team effectiveness across an organization does not have to be time-consuming. The Team Diagnostic Profiler (TDP) is a methodology and process that is easy to use, self-administering and can, therefore, deliver 10 to 20% improvement in team effectiveness when deployed in a corporate team strategy. This book is based on the TDP methodology and the years of research completed by the Simon Mac Rory.

Find out more?

Listen to Simon Mac Rory’s LID Radio podcast where he talks about the book and what it takes to create and empower teams in today’s ever-evolving work environment.

Read an extract from Wake Up and Smell the Coffee here.

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee is available to buy here.