Photo by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash Are you at risk of becoming a redundant welfare recipient? Welfare recipients are amongst the most vulnerable people on the planet. They rarely get what they really need. If you fail to master the following three skills, you could descend into that category. Skill No. 1 – Attitudinal Competence This is the […]
Photo by roya ann miller on Unsplash As both the chair and CEO, he’d been the leader of the company he founded for twenty years. At this board meeting, his innovation team, a cross section of the company’s talent, presented the next generation of product and service mix his company would launch in the New Year. Key to […]
Photo by Phil Coffman on Unsplash Tom replaced the mining company’s former chief operating officer, who had fallen seriously ill. Less than two months later Tom felt extremely stressed and was struggling to keep up with his workload. Worst of all he hadn’t had time to get to know the people who were delivering the outputs and results. […]
Photo by Roland Samuel on Unsplash The in-house architect was important to the success of the development project. He was talented, creative yet pragmatic and realistic in his technical design output. The leadership valued his work highly. But he was painful to work with. He was never wrong – in his opinion. He was rude, even brutal in […]
Photo by Hanny Naibaho on Unsplash Barry was walking around the large office space. As CEO it was his habit to ‘walk the floor’ regularly. He stopped at Sharyn’s desk because he noticed the glum look on her face. “Hi Sharyn, everything OK?’ he asked. Sharyn looked up with a tight smile “Hi Barry, yes all good.” Barry […]
Photo by v2osk on Unsplash Sounds hard to believe doesn’t it? Well, you can test it in a moment. As you know, everything we create, do, don’t do, achieve or don’t achieve first begins as a thought. The quality of our thinking determines the quality of our actions and influences our outcomes. What we pay attention to with […]
Photo by jesse orrico on Unsplash Gary owns an engineering service, with sixty-five employees. He struggled to minimise re-work, overdue project delivery and costs. As an introvert he also struggled to confront and work with the people involved, preferring to work out the issues himself. Gary was very stressed, preventing him from thinking clearly. His wife recommended an […]
Photo by Will Suddreth on Unsplash Case 1 Max is the CEO of a mid-size engineering company. He’d just attended a conference of engineers examining the future of fabrication. He was brimming with ideas. Calling a meeting of his direct reports on his return, he required them to come up with a plan to reduce costs by 20%, […]
Published first on July 5, 2019 on LinkedIn Pulse Imagine this: Andrew and Grace began their business eight years ago, after Andrew was laid off from his previous long-term employer. A&G Fabrications has 60 staff, leases a large modern building in the marine industrial park, providing custom fabrication services to their regional marine sector. Andrew’s son […]
Owner 1 Maureen, business owner, locked herself in her office. She was shaking with anger. Gary, her best salesperson, in front of her team, had just demanded a raise, saying if he wasn’t there the business would fail. Gary wasn’t correct, but it was what he believed. Maureen is a good person, her people love […]
