Improving the culture is a crucial aspect of improving any organisation and can be more difficult the larger the organisation is. Culture has been proven to be the biggest determinant of performance and productivity. I help my clients effectively change their culture with the following steps: Get shared clarity about the values that determines how everyone […]
Black holes are powerful and suck everything into their vortex. Science is still coming to grips with them. All we know yet is that what goes in, doesn’t come out! In the dimension of leadership, there exist those leaders with black hole traits. What do I mean? I mean this: powerful leaders anywhere, families, communities, […]
I know you’ve heard so much about the importance of leadership and perhaps you’re becoming desensitised to it all. However please stay with this. The changes to the workplace are massive and truly disruptive. The level of uncertainty and complexity can be quite overwhelming. Now we need effective leadership more than ever. Leadership that creates […]
Copyright Sydney Morning Herald I will never forget him. He was only seven years older than me. I was nineteen. He discovered that I’d gone absent without leave, chasing after a girlfriend in Melbourne. I’d created a dummy in my bed. When I came back just before reveille, he was waiting for me. “Do you […]
This season’s down-time presents a great opportunity to gain an extraordinary advantage for the coming year. The people who could most benefit will undoubtedly be managing partners, business owners, leaders, executives, supervisors and managers at all levels. That extraordinary advantage will be the ability to confidently and competently conduct difficult conversations that get desired results without […]
This fire service is revered by its community. This police service is too. The large public company in the region employs 15% of the population and is revered as well. The university that serves the catchment area is in the same boat. But insiders of all four tell a different story. Sadly, their stories are […]
Hello David here. Imagine that it is February 2019, that's two and a half months from now, now being the 15th of November 2018 and you’re stepping into the business for the first time after the break. And you have a clear plan about how you're going to have some very important conversations with people […]
Strategy, whether in war, sport or commerce is all about ease and speed. The secret weapon that enhances ease and speed, is too often hidden by focus on results, outcomes. The secret weapon is culture. Culture of the team, the organisation, the club. We can easily see that weapon at play in organisations and teams […]
I’ve been an executive coach for two decades and before that a leader in defence, law-enforcement and commerce. Despite that, I’m still learning to be a better leader myself as I help others. I was asked recently if I could distil everything about being a great leader down to three traits. I described those traits […]
Hello. As a business owner, when you are seeking to improve your business, how much do you focus on the tangible elements - your products and services, your systems and processes, or your tools and equipment? During my 20 years as an executive coach serving public and private companies, both large and small and government […]
