As a performance mentor and coach for executives and high performance professionals, I encourage my clients to think about this statement: “I eat and drink, think and speak, sleep, breathe and exercise in ways that enhance my health and effectiveness”. These are the truthful causes of your health and performance: What and how you eat […]
Mark is a confident extrovert who has been a competent team member for a number of years. He often steps up as team leader when Gary is away. Phil is also a competent team member but is an introvert and prefers to consider tasks for longer than Mark would, before commencing action. One day circumstances […]
How many lists of organisational and business challenges have you seen? I bet they include the following in no particular order of priority: Finance management, including cash, borrowing and risk management Competition Marketing Regulations Staff selection and retention Culture Values adherence Technological change Uncertain economic conditions Stress Complexity of the marketplace Yet the one problematic […]
I listened to the CEO address his senior managers at their annual conference. He painted a picture of new growth and opportunity, sharing his vision for the coming year and how it aligned with the bigger and longer term vision. I watched his managers pay genuine attention to the oration. It was indeed inspiring. The […]
Do you remember when you were helped by an amazing person? Who never judged you, yet asked you for your best. Who believed in you, stood beside you, urged you on. Who gave you the glory for your achievement and accepted responsibility for what didn’t work. Do you remember what distinguished that person from others? […]
People and organisations usually include trust and respect in their list of important values. They go hand in hand. Earning trust and respect is a key requirement of leaders, isn’t it? Yet so often people complain that those values are breached or missing. We cannot expect that trust and respect is granted automatically because of […]
Leaders must act, right? But what actions can they take? I’m not referring to thinking, talking, asking, telling or listening – I mean real action. If we ponder this, I believe there can only be four actions. Let me give you a scenario to illustrate this. Mary is the new CEO of a public listed […]
Without followers a leader serves no purpose. Without fellowship there is no team. Without the team nothing happens. Leadership development is a well covered high profile topic. We are not talking about management here, just leadership. Anyone can manage, all they need do is learn how to run, monitor and adjust processes and systems – […]
This follows my last blog post about the four challenges introverts face. Apart from working with extrovert clients, mostly senior leaders, I too am largely an extrovert and have been assessed by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as an ENTJ. Here are the four biggest challenges that I’ve found extroverted leaders experience: Talking Too Much With […]
After two decades of coaching and mentoring leaders, mainly C-level executives, I’ve learned that they fall into two very broad groups – introverts and extroverts. I’ve found that both introverts and extroverts can be great leaders and that they have their own challenges. Here are the four biggest challenges that I’ve found introverted leaders experience: […]
