WHAT KIND OF LEADER?
Louisa Warde • August 17, 2021


Created for FranklinCovey to appear in Personnel Today, Boardroom HR supplement, Summer 2002

Looking for an escape for the weekend we headed over to Yorkshire, my home county for a couple of nights. Owned by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and located within the stunning Bolton Abbey Estate the country house hotel has 40 rooms and two restaurants. It is the perfect place from which to explore the Yorkshire Dales and all of the outdoor pursuits you would expect.

I have been lucky enough to interview some amazing people in my role as journalist and editor. As I spend some time filling boxes (we are moving very soon) and being ever-so-slightly sentimental about what we keep and what we recycle I have been reminded of this and wanted to share just a handful of my favourite interview memories to date…

Out of everything that children have missed out on during lockdown and all the measures in place as a result, the sense of school community, of belonging, must be at the top of the list. Rosemary Evans , headteacher and safeguarding lead at The Firs School, Chester looks at how we re-establish those all-important human connections.