Steve Radcliffe

Steve Radcliffe (www.steveradcliffe.com) is one of Europe’s top leadership experts. In the last 20 years, he has provided leadership coaching to over 50 chief executives and heads of the Civil Service, the NHS and other government departments. He is most well known for his powerful leadership development approach, Future – Engage – Deliver, that The London Times describes as ‘the no-nonsense approach…. shaking up the world of leadership’. Steve has summarised his approach in the UK’s top leadership book, Leadership Plain and Simple, published by the Financial Times. With his colleagues in Steve Radcliffe Associates, Steve has designed and delivered leadership development, people engagement and culture-change programmes that have impacted tens of thousands of people in organisations of all kinds and on all continents. Steve is also an inspiring conference speaker having given a TED Talk and shared the stage with the likes of David Cameron, Seb Coe, Lord Gus O’Donnell, William Hague, General Sir Mike Jackson, Michael Johnson, David Walliams and more. Steve is also a family man, a music lover and decent landscape photographer. More about Steve

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Steve Radcliffe Portrait

I was about to start the third FED session with a group who had loved the first two sessions 4 and 8 weeks earlier and I thought I’d ask three questions to encourage their reflection and conversation. Here are the questions. What are your answers?

The first question is: On a scale of nought to ten, how well are you practising and living the leadership ideas you have explored?

Second: What is the score you’d like to be at?

And the third: What is the gap?

If the gap is 1, well done, you’re in pretty good shape.
If it’s 2, I’m sure you can find a way to reduce this by one at least.
If it’s 3 or more, what’s happening? Time to call in your Support Team. Have a conversation with someone.

If you have a gap in your scores, how are you holding yourself back and what steps can you take to spend more of your time being the leader and person you want to be?

By Steve Radcliffe