• 7 ATTRIBUTES OF GREAT BOSSES

    7 ATTRIBUTES OF GREAT BOSSES

    Most managers would like for their team to like them, personally, as a person.  Nobody likes to be disliked and we are all more comfortable with being the popular boss rather than the unpopular one.  And if we can’t popular, appreciated and admired can we at least be respected in our role? There was a Read more

  • IF YOU ARE GOING TO ASK THE QUESTION…

    IF YOU ARE GOING TO ASK THE QUESTION…

    I’ve worked with a number of organisations who regularly conduct employee engagement surveys.  These surveys typically have somewhere between 40 and 90 questions and cover a range of topics including: Employment Conditions, Career Objectives, Conduct and Performance, Manager Capability, Leadership Capability, Communication and Consultation, Development Opportunities, and so on. The point of these surveys is Read more

  • HOW IS YOUR TEAM MOJO?

    HOW IS YOUR TEAM MOJO?

    How are things in your team these days?  Is everybody pumped and firing on all cylinders every day? Or are things a little flat like the party balloons from Susan’s birthday morning tea last week? Liz Wiseman, author of Multipliers, has 5 tips for leaders who want to inspire and motivate their teams.  1. Utilise Read more

  • THE MECHANICS AND DYNAMICS OF LEADING TEAMS

    THE MECHANICS AND DYNAMICS OF LEADING TEAMS

    I was listening to a great podcast this morning about working with high performance sporting teams, and it got me thinking about leadership in any situation, including the workplace.  There was a discussion about the mechanics and the dynamics of the team and here is what I understood that to mean.  The Mechanics This is Read more

  • WHEN YOU JUST HAVE TO HAVE YOUR SAY…

    WHEN YOU JUST HAVE TO HAVE YOUR SAY…

    I wrote an article last week about the beauty and the curse of social media, and how ideas, thoughts and opinions can start to get a life of their own if they are controversial enough.  Today I want to explore this a little further and look at it in the context of organisational leadership. If Read more

  • RECOGNISE YOUR MVPs BY INVESTING IN A COACH FOR THEM

    RECOGNISE YOUR MVPs BY INVESTING IN A COACH FOR THEM

    It used to be that when the boss said they were organising a coach for you there was a sense that there was something wrong with you, that you might be the problem, that some sort of deficiency needed to be addressed.  Assigning someone a coach was often part of a remedial performance improvement plan, Read more