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Read or watch any interview with a CEO and it will be all about performance of the business, profitability, growth, future plans, etc. Have you ever heard the interviewer, be that a journalist, stakeholder or chairman, ask how the CEO feels? No, neither have I. Yet the answer to that simple question could be the […]

I’ve assessed, developed and coached senior leaders for many years and also had the pleasure of being involved in the research behind one of the most widely used leadership behaviour models in the world, but there is one thing that has always really frustrated me.  Of the eleven leadership behaviours that we identified as being […]

Imagine you have a major presentation to give. Your career, and the future of your team, depends on it. You can feel the adrenaline building in your body. Your stomach’s churning. You may not realise it, but this stressful situation is provoking a physiological response in you that could cause you to fail. When we […]

I dropped my son off at school on Monday morning and promptly took myself back to bed. The summer holidays were over, and I was exhausted! Speaking to many other friends it seems I’m not alone. That illusive summer break we had all been craving seemed just as exhausting as the other 50 odd weeks […]

Today (13th September) is Roald Dahl Day. Dahl has a special place in our hearts at Complete because he so expertly communicates about emotions. Remember when Matilda’s supernatural powers first reveal themselves? It’s when Matilda is “so unbearably angry that something was bound to explode inside her very soon”. Matilda is angry because she is […]

This month, Dr Alan Watkins’ first leadership book receives a well-earned update. The release of edition two is the perfect time to dig a little more into just what made this book so special when it was launched in 2013 and why it’s so relevant to today. We ask author, Dr Alan Watkins, what it’s […]

As the Tokyo Olympics closes and steps away from the podium of our minds what do we remember of this sporting celebration and pinnacle of human performance? We can probably all agree that Simone Biles’ decision not to compete in the team gymnastics event, because her head wasn’t in the right place, was extremely courageous. […]

In the fast changing modern business and sporting worlds, the margins between success and failure are often very small. The difference between gold and silver for Great Britain’s Bianca Walkden in the taekwondo final in Tokyo this week was less than a second. Years and years of training and it all comes down to less […]

My pin number was 2000, my computer login password was Sydney. To say, I was singularly focused on my goal of being part of the GB Olympic rowing squad at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 would be an understatement. Years and years of training, sacrificing important family time and events and any sort of social […]

After the financial crisis of 2008, the penny finally dropped for a lot of business people. A dawning realisation emerged that there was something seriously wrong with the mantra that companies exist solely to generate ‘shareholder value’. Leadership commentator Steve Denning went as far as declaring Milton Freidman’s advocation of shareholder value as “the world’s […]

Why now is the perfect time for appreciation As we emerge, blinking into the June sun, it’s worth taking time to focus on appreciation. Many of us have struggled with lockdown, distance from friends and family, even illness and loss in the last year. Appreciation could be just what we all need to start to […]

Being able to make the right choices, at work and at home, requires clear thinking. And if we want to be able to think clearly, we must pay attention to our biology. At Complete, we’ve been tracking the biology of leaders during a normal working day using heart rate variability (HRV) technology for more than […]

Do you spend most of your waking hours wading through your to do lists and never feeling entirely satisfied that you have completed every task? Dr Alan Watkins‘ 4D Leadership can help So many of us are busy doing all the time, it’s hardly surprising that we give little thought to the being and relating aspects […]

When we think of hunger we naturally think about the absence of food and the 2 billion people on our planet who are starving. But we should also include the additional 2 billion people who are over fed and undernourished because they live in poverty. They live in what are called ‘food deserts’, where the […]