Tag: Management
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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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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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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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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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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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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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