Category: Leadership
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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THE INFINITE GAME (or THE CARROT CAKE SCENARIO)
Simon Sinek’s book The Infinite Game about developing a long-term mindset for your organisation. The focus being less about the P&L statement for the year, and more about having a vision for the type of legacy company that you will be leaving for the next two or three generations. As managers of people we could…
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“I’M OFFENDED”… CANCEL CULTURE IN THE WORKPLACE
The beauty and the curse of social media is that everyone now has a platform to voice their opinion. If your opinion is controversial enough, or you have enough followers, your opinion might even go viral. When that happens you will get extra exposure through the news outlets picking up the story and the next…
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5 TIPS FOR NEW MANAGERS
Congratulations !! You’ve just won the job and now you have your own team to manage. Its exciting isn’t it? You get to set the direction and make the decisions now, and it is what you have been working towards for a while. You have finally got your own office and your name on the…
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IT’S OKAY TO BE THE BOSS… BUT BE HUMAN FIRST
Michael is relatively new to your team. He has come highly recommended, he did exceptionally well throughout the recruitment process, and in his first month has delivered some excellent work. If his work to date is any indication, he is going to be a bit of a superstar. You do have a couple of concerns…
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HOW WILL OUR KIDS SURVIVE THE WORKPLACE?
If you are a parent then you know what I’m talking about. You have dedicated yourself to protecting your offspring, providing everything they need and want (far more than you ever had growing up), keeping them safe from harm, from cyber bullying, from people being mean to them or saying hurtful things. Our kids have…
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INVESTING IN YOUR PEOPLE
There is an old joke about the dangers of investing time, money and effort into your people… CFO says: “What happens if we invest in developing our people and they leave?” CEO says: “What happens if we don’t, and they stay?” I’m not sure why people think this is a joke because the reality of…
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