(Attitudinal Competence and the Effective Change Leadership) Photo by Hans Eiskonen on Unsplash You’re a business owner, or in charge of a business with more than thirty employees, possibly many more. You are experiencing the need to make necessary changes quicker – for instance to adapt or improve your systems, processes, technology, culture, customer service and more. You […]
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 Sirma Krusteva on Unsplash If you do have that skill, congratulations! You are Attitudinally Competent. That means you can rapidly select, adapt or maintain your best attitude for what has happened, is happening or might happen and not be stuck with habitual attitudes. You have mastered the power of your attitudes. However, if you want to […]
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 […]
Once upon a time there was true freedom of speech, a tenet of democracy, where people could express what they felt, whether with passion, humility, or humour. In those times listeners would simply choose whether the words applied to them or not, and disregard what they didn’t agree with. In those times people had more […]
There is a ubiquitous crisis of leadership in the workplace. Gallup says 82% of managers are the wrong fit. Executives are both leaders and managers. They lead people and manage processes and things. We can’t manage people, we can only either lead them or not. Sadly, most executives are chosen, not for pre-existing leadership or […]
Are you shocked that Gallup says 82% of management hires are the wrong fit? The responsibility for that horrible statistic lies jointly with the company and their recruitment service provider. Resumes, referee checks and the usual interviews are not enough to make the right choice. Making the wrong choice is far worse than keeping the […]
How often do you have thoughts that make you feel things you don’t want to feel? Like being angry, frustrated, worried or helpless? Those feelings are caused by your automatic thoughts about what’s happening, or has happened, or might happen, aren’t they? If you act in response to those thoughts and their feelings, what could […]
Avoidance of dealing with unacceptable behaviour and performance can be a big part of the culture of many organisations across commerce and government, costing them loss of talent, productivity, innovation and opportunity. This avoidance culture leaves the organisation vulnerable to serious disruption by competitors who are more agile and performance focused with a culture of […]
The World Health Organization states that stress will be the MAJOR cause of disability in the world by 2030. If we are paying attention to what’s happening globally and locally we see that global economic uncertainty, the coming jobs impact of artificial intelligence and robotics, climate change and weird political swings to the right and […]
