Just like with ‘employee engagement’, the world is now pursuing ‘high performance’. Everywhere consultants and coaches are beating the drum of high performance. It’s an admirable pursuit amid the sea of mediocrity isn’t it? I’m helping my clients be ‘elite’, because I don’t think high performance is any more than normal now and I want […]
Coined by the military and studied by Bob Johansen and many others, we are all experiencing VUCA right now – volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Thanks to Bob Johansen and others we know that the way through these conditions are with a countering VUCA – vision to settle the volatility; understanding to comprehend the uncertainty, […]
The calendar year is finished, you are getting ready for a short break, family time, then back to work in 2016. You know we are in a time of increasing volatility, uncertainty, chaos and ambiguity. So perhaps you might reflect upon what happened in the year just gone and how you can be different next […]
Do you have the courage to own up to your errors immediately? Do you have the courage to ensure the right people are on your team for the right reasons? Do you have the courage to hand leadership over to a person better suited for the immediate situation, even temporarily? Do you have the courage […]
Now that the mining boom is over, it’s presently an employers’ market. That means there are many more people looking for work than there are positions available. Whilst that may seem great for employers, it is actually a double-edged sword. With so many more to choose from, how will you know you’ve hired the best? […]
I come from the military where traditional bonuses don’t exist. Our incentive for joining the military was exciting work (we were young) and serving our nation. Very quickly our incentives became and remain, the well-being of our team mates, our esprit de corps, and our interest in our work. Do You Recognise This? My first […]
Wise leaders realise that debriefing after an event, project, training or task can be a highest point of learning. They develop the habit of debriefing. They have a process to maximise the benefit. Here’s a process I encourage my clients to follow: 1. Get all the participants present. 2. […]
Continuous improvement is a goal sought by many enterprises, yet often they are just words with no supporting action. There are two broad methods for examining for improvement: Pathological Inquiry – where we look for what’s not working to improve it. Appreciative Inquiry – where we look for what works to make it grow elsewhere. […]
If there’s diminished trust and respect in a leader, then there’s equally diminished performance and productivity. Right? Trust and respect go hand in glove and it is rare that a leader is trusted but not respected or vice versa. Trust and respect must be earned, and where the leader must go first. We all fundamentally […]
A favourite tool of many consulting firms is the dreaded 360° feedback survey that gets routinely pushed out, often just ahead of the equally dreaded performance review. Leaders and managers are asked to get selected peers, direct reports and supervisors to answer them anonymously. The surveys usually contain between about fifty to well over a […]
