Tag: Coaching
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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…
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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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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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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A ‘HOT COALS’ LEADER?
Many years ago… more than I really care to think about, I had a manager who was what I would term a hot coals leader. The term ‘hot coals’ leader is someone that you would walk across hot coals for, even though they would never ask you to do that. Those familiar with Tony Robbins…
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THE ONE MISSING INGREDIENT IN YOUR TEAM
I’ve been doing a lot of work with leaders and their teams over the past fifteen years or so, and I discovered one absolute truth. In every single team where there is dysfunction (and by dysfunction I mean performance issues, conduct or behavioural issues, backstabbing, gossiping, blame cultures, a lack of accountability etc) there is…
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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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MAKE BETTER DECISIONS
The workplace will present you with a number of decision points throughout the day. Some of these will be small decisions, and some will be big decisions which impact other people, organisational outcomes or future direction. Of all the various options you could choose, how do you know which is the better option? How do…
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CAN YOU PLEASE JUST TELL ME WHAT I’M DOING RIGHT?
In the words of Maya Angelou “people may soon forget the words you say… but they never forget how your words make them feel.” So how can we use this same principle when giving feedback to our people?
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WHAT IS IT LIKE WORKING FOR YOU?
Think about what it might be like to work for you. How do you think your team feel about coming in to work every day? Are they inspired? Motivated? Engaged? Maybe you think they are but how can you be sure?
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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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