to by Andreas Klassen on Unsplash Brett owns a manufacturing business and over fifteen years had built his workforce of 43 good people with his energy, expertise and empathy. But he was frustrated with two behaviours of some of his people: Some of them kept interrupting him to ask for more information, or what to do next, […]
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Your smart skills are those of relating, empathising, sharing feelings effectively, expressing feelings effectively, engaging others, influencing, persuading, inspiring, convincing and supporting. Wrongly dubbed ‘soft’ skills, these smart skills are harder than hard skills (trades, operations, sciences and professions) to master. Under our current global situation, with workforces more dispersed and stressed, […]
Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash I’m curating these comments from a range of employers to help us choose our best attitude in navigating our way in this new world. Who said them isn’t important. What they say is revealing. Which comments align with you? Which ones do you disagree with? The Comments “I’m waiting to see what […]
Photo by Elisa Michelet on Unsplash Assessing leadership skills is crucial for personal, professional and organisational development and success. Too often the lack of assessment expertise leads to unsuitable people being appointed to leadership roles, causing problems for the people being led, the organisation and harming the prospects of the unfortunate appointee. Effective leadership assessment is a process […]
Photo by Norbu Gyachung on Unsplash To clarify, there is a time and place for command and control leadership, but it’s not needed as often as it’s used. Command and control leadership is useful in emergency or crisis management or leading unskilled, unconfident, inexperienced, or disengaged people who are required to act. Those situations are abnormal, and hopefully […]
Photo by Vlad Hilitanu on Unsplash Jeff started his business in his backyard – metal fabrication. He was good at it and soon he had to move to bigger premises. He hired more staff and because it was still smallish, he knew them all and they all worked together well. And the business kept growing. Soon Jeff had […]
Photo by Pedro Ribeiro on Unsplash Paula is the managing director and major shareholder of the public listed mining company. They export three base metals. They’re in full production in all three metals and whilst they’ve got ample future ore identified, they aren’t ready to expand yet for these reasons, as Paula describes: “We want to stop exporting […]
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 […]
