By Jonathan Rayner28 June 2021
People in Practice conference
The Law Society’s People in Practice conference 2021 starts with an implicit warning against hubris. Research, we are told by keynote speaker Elke Edwards, reveals that 72% of business leaders rate themselves in the top 10% when compared with other leaders. In contrast, a mere 38% of staff believe they are being well-led. There is a clear disconnect here between how leaders view themselves and how they are viewed by others. The conference sets out to identify the qualities that make an exemplary leader of people.
Jonathan Rayner
Edwards, the founder of Ivy House, a business focused on the development of emerging talent, tells the conference that remote and hybrid working have changed the way that leaders can do their job most effectively. ‘Human leadership,’ she says, ‘is the practice of leading oneself and others in a way that empowers everyone to reach their full potential, [in the process] delivering indivi