Why Trust Is At The Heart Of Great Teams


Jon Harding is a Senior Performance Consultant for Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? He has over 20 years’ experience as a business coach, team coach and facilitator. Jon has successfully worked with clients to improve leadership and team dynamics to create a high performance, learning environment. Creating a safe environment for learning Ben has often […]
Join A Company, Leave A Boss


Tom Barry is Co-Founder of Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? and developed the Crazy Goal Workshop process. He facilitates senior board programmes, strategy development and works closely with senior teams to observe performance ‘in the moment’. If you’re a boss that sucks, it’s all over. Or is it? I remember the moment well. […]
Leading Change Through Storytelling


Jon Harding is a Senior Performance Consultant for Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? He has over 20 years’ experience as a business coach, team coach and facilitator. Jon has successfully worked with clients to improve leadership and team dynamics to create a high performance environment. What’s in a story? The story of Ben’s crew – […]
Mastering Significant Change


Top tips for dealing with change head-on I made the rather worrying calculation the other day that I have been working since 1988 – yes, that’s right, 1988! – in the world of leadership development and employee engagement. The fresh-faced Tom Barry that left a management role in the emerging electronics industry went onto two […]
A Search to Find out why Some Lucky People are so Damn Motivated


To begin with a confession. I am deeply in awe of world class sportsmen, admire begrudgingly FTSE 100 type CEO’s (especially Helena Morrissey) always wondered quite how Mother Theresa did it. The ability to not only be very good at something but to keep on doing it, day after day, week after week, each time at […]
Leadership – which of these Mantras do you use?


Leadership mantras – do you use them? What are the qualities that make someone a good leader? That’s a difficult question to answer. The skills and traits that make for excellent leadership in one set of circumstances, could be a leader’s Achille’s Heel in another. It all depends on the group of people you’re leading and […]
Leadership Development – How to Build your A-Team


Leadership – what’s required? What is it that allows some teams to be more than the sum of their parts, while some teams of experienced high-performers struggle to reach their potential? In some cases, the cause could be the quality of the leadership that the team enjoys. High quality leadership can be particularly important when […]