Tag: performance
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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…
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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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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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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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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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HOW TO MANAGE EMPLOYEES BEHAVING BADLY
It’s the easiest thing in the world to manage a team of talented high performers who all get along with each other, but in my experience these teams are essentially rainbow coloured unicorns. I won’t deny their existence, but very few of us have ever seen one. Now when we talk about employees behaving badly,…
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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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