Porridge for Leaders

Bowls of Porridge


I don’t like porridge! There, I have said it! But shhh, don’t tell my kids! So far, they are more than happy to eat it and it is a luxury to them with frozen fruit and honey all over the top.

They eat porridge a few times a week because I know how good it is for them, and I eat it too. This is something we have to do as a parent so we don’t want to influence the children to avoid a varied diet!

As business leaders, there are so many things that we may have to do that we don’t enjoy and is not natural to us; if you are a creative, maybe you don’t like being bound by plans but we KNOW that this is good practice. If you are a more controlling type of leader, you engage stakeholders because this is the good practice you have to show your team that all ideas get results. We all like diversity, we like different points of view and we know what is right! What do you have to do to ensure you are setting a good leadership example but is not natural to you? What is your porridge?

Eating Porridge to get to cake!


Published by Skills Repeat

A career break is something I never thought I would do. Please join me in my transition journey from being a career-woman mum to a full time mum to my two lovely girls. It is helping me to compare business practice with the way we do things in family life.

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