Category: Management
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IT’S A TEAM MEETING NOT A CHRISTMAS DINNER
I don’t know if you’ve ever had one of those family gatherings where the extended family gets together for the first time in a long time, and nobody has either forgiven or forgotten the debacle of the last one? Maybe it’s just my family? I remember one particular Christmas many years ago where my Dad…
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HOW TO BUILD PSYCHOLOGICALLY SAFE TEAMS
I was watching something on tv the other day and there was an interaction between two colleagues in the workplace. The first said that “for all intensive purposes” what he had done was the right thing to do. His colleague immediately jumped in and corrected him saying that the phrase he was looking for was…
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WHY YOU NEED A CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER…
You won’t get any argument from me about the importance of the various corporate functions that deliver organisational performance and success. Your C-suite will probably reflect those roles that are most valued by the organisation. You will likely have a Chief Executive Officer (or similar,) some business line Executive Directors or General Managers, and then…
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THE OPPOSITE OF LEADERSHIP
Let’s start with a hard truth: Many people in leadership or management roles got promoted to to these positions based on either their individual job performance or tenure. It is unlikely that they were selected for their natural ability to effectively lead, serve, and engage other human beings to be and do their best. The…
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“PEOPLE DON’T LEAVE JOBS…”
The old cliché about people not leaving jobs but leaving managers exists because its true.
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ARE YOU A MANAGER OR A LEADER?
This is not a new question, and academics and business experts have been debating this for some time, and I’m not sure that we have actually landed a definitive answer that satisfies everyone. Here is a fun little article from HBR about the transition from manager to leader. I don’t necessarily agree that it’s a…
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