Feature articles

The latest feature articles on leadership and HR from CHPD, click on the heading below to read the full article:

Chris Parry, executive chairman of the Centre for High Performance Development, explores the challenges women face when they are reaching for the top in a male-dominated business world.

Can leadership be learnt?

The Centre for High Performance Development (CHPD) estimates that in today’s dynamic and competitive environment, 40% of business performance is determined by the capabilities of the leader. With so much resting in so few, it is essential that we understand how to identify the leaders of tomorrow and whether they are born great leaders or whether they can be developed into a great leader.

Ensuring success in succession planning

"Success without a successor is failure." - Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make. CHPD looks at succession planning and talent management and recommends what organisations need to do to maintain their leadership.

Team tactics: four steps to really effective teamwork

Too often teams fail to live up to the old adage ‘the whole is greater than the sum of the parts’, but why is this?

Chris Parry, executive chairman of the leadership development consultancy the Centre for High Performance Development, examines the reasons why teams don’t work and uses CHPD’s extensive research to suggest the four key steps to really effective and successful teamwork.

How to be a successful leader

High performing individuals and teams should be the goal of any organisation. We are all now aware of the potential results of high performance in terms of organisational success and competitiveness. The perennial debate is around how to create that high performance and, more importantly, how to sustain efforts to enable your organisation to continue to outperform others in your market.

The behaviours of high performance leadership

This new world requires a new set of leadership skills to ensure high performance. The question is: can we identify leadership and team behaviours that underpin outstanding performance in dynamic, complex and competitive environments? And more than that, can people learn and develop these skills?

The pharma seasons of career development

What makes for leadership success in Pharma? I get asked this a lot, but there is no easy answer. I am lucky enough to work with people at all levels in big Pharma, and what makes for success changes as people progress through their career. This article looks at two things: first, what are the key phases in a successful Pharma career, and what development matters at these different phases; second, what stays the same, i.e. what is crucial on the first day to the last.

Spotting the leaders of tomorrow

Sean Mills, client director at the Centre for High Performance Development (CHPD) looks at how to take the guesswork out of promotion and know how today has the potential to do a great job tomorrow.

The person we've appointed isn't you

Kerry Seymour, client manager at the Centre for High Performance Development, gives advice on what to do when someone else gets promoted and you don’t.

Thinker or achiever - HR stereotypes revealed

HR people are a diverse bunch. The Centre for High Performance Development (CHPD) has encountered more than most in its nine years of existence. The organisation has worked with thousands of HR people and believes that HR professionals are a special and under-rated group of individuals, who provide their organisations with a special insight into the lives of their greatest asset, their people.

Thinking skills

So just how capable are our leaders? Work at the Centre for High Performance Development (CHPD) has researched and assessed the key characteristics of successful leadership in this complex environment for the last 20 years. One of the results of this research has been to establish four behavioural clusters that represent successful leadership.

Where are the women leaders?

Birthe Mester, MD of business development at the Centre for High Performance Development (CHPD), claims that despite being just as good – if not better – than their male counterparts, women leaders struggle to climb beyond middle management. So, why are there so few women leaders?

Big in Japan

As capitalism becomes ever more global and interdependent, individuals seek – and are expected by their corporations to make – more geographical transitions. There can be few contrasts as great as moving from Europe to live and work in the Japanese east.