Tag: trust
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MY NEW BOSS IS BULLYING ME…
The new boss has just started and while we are all going to miss Alison, the team is feeling pretty positive about things and looking forward to what this new guy, Michael, is going to bring to the table. We’ve come through COVID relatively unscathed, we’ve enjoyed working flexibly and we’ve continued to deliver against…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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