How to Kill a Leadership Meeting Before it Has Even Started
One of the most universal issues we hear leaders raise is how much time they waste each week in unproductive meetings. Do you ever think about how much more you would get done if you could halve the amount of meetings you attended? The reality is, if you’re in a leadership position it’s unlikely this […]
How to Empower Your Team Without ‘Losing Control’ as a Leader
One of the most significant success factors of being a leader is your ability to empower your team to do their best work. In the corporate world, empowerment is known to be a bit of a buzzword that gets thrown around a lot with little context or meaning. In a nutshell, the purpose of empowerment […]
How to Have Accountability Conversations With Your Team Without Compromising Care
One of the dilemmas we face often as leaders is how to have conversations around accountability, without compromising the care we have for our people. Many leaders and managers put a lot of work into building a really positive and supportive environment for their people and then naturally feel torn when the time comes to […]
Three Mistakes Leaders Make When Delivering Negative Feedback
Feedback is one of the most powerful tools in our arsenal as a manager to enable the people around us to grow into the best they can be and truly reach their potential. It gives us a means of making others aware of the things they are doing well, as well as some of the things […]
A Guide to Getting Out of the Comfort Zone Trap
We’re all familiar with our own personal comfort zones. They are unique for every individual, but essentially they’re a place where our subconscious puts all of our habits. The things we do without thinking, the things we enjoy, and the things we find, well, comfortable. The problem is that while we remain in our comfort zones, […]
Eight Mistakes Companies Make That Kill Cooperation
The holy grail for organisational leaders is a culture of cooperation. Cooperation must come before collaboration because people need to ‘want’ to work together towards an over-arching purpose or vision, before they can effectively work on a project together and solve a problem. Companies with cooperation get the benefit of no wasted energy. Everyone is heading in exactly […]
Leaders: You’re at Risk of Facing Your Own Cricket Scandal
If you are a leader of people, ask yourself this question – would Steve Smith and David Warner have expressed such deep remorse and emotion right now (as they did in their press conferences) had they not been caught? Would the regret they feel now for their fateful decision, actually be sincere, had they not […]
Is This the Reason Your Employees Are Underperforming?
If you chose to read this today, I guarantee there’s probably at least one person on your team who’s either underperforming or not performing at their best at the moment. In these situations, the easy thing to do is to place blame on the employee’s shoulders instead of your own. While the employee is responsible […]
How to Become a Trusted Mentor
Anyone in a leadership position, or who actively plays a role in helping others learn has an opportunity to build their skills as a mentor. All of us in life have people that we turn to as sounding boards or trusted advisors when we’re facing challenges. These people are, in fact, our mentors. In this […]
Taking the Awkwardness out of Honesty
Have you ever been in a situation where you felt like you weren’t being heard or understood by another person in the workplace? Or perhaps you’ve felt annoyed or frustrated by somebody else or even sensed that they’ve been feeling that way towards you? If you’re one of the lucky ones who haven’t experienced this, […]
