Those of you who know me know that my passion is Attitudinal Competence and Effective Leadership Behaviour. I’ve devoted the last 20 years to helping people master their attitudes so they can live the life they choose; helping leaders master their attitudes and behaviour so they can have trust respect and performance from their people. […]
I’m committed to life-long improvement of my leadership skills. That has me reflecting regularly to examine how I’ve performed and how I can improve. On one early occasion when leading a team of law-enforcement agents at a crime scene, I relieved an officer from duty for consistent poor operational performance. On this occasion he had […]
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 – […]
The in-house architect was important to the success of the development project. She was talented, creative yet pragmatic and realistic in her technical design output. The leadership valued her work highly. But she was painful to work with. She was never wrong - in her opinion. She was rude, even brutal in her criticism of […]
The leadership team consists of all the leaders in the organisation, not just the top tier. A front line supervisor is a leader too. The great leadership team creates these skills, by first agreement then consistent correct practice: They all agree on and live the values. Every action is results-oriented towards fulfilling the vision, mission […]
Ego – always being right - learn instead; being better than others - get the nobility of all work – thank you Simon Bowen!; being popular - earn trust and respect instead. Expectations – replace with clear and accepted agreements - convince, not dictate; operate from best intentions instead; make no assumptions – ask better […]
Joe and Sharon were at loggerheads with each other and neither would budge from their stance. Joe was the general manager his company’s southern territory and Sharon managed the northern territory. They both reported to Phil, the marketing director. The fight was over sales staff numbers and advertising spend. Joe’s territory had traditionally generated the […]
Peter, the chief operating officer, was concerned about one of his direct report’s (Gerry) leadership. Gerry was the manager of a division that produced specialised animal feed. Gerry had been a production staff member for eight years before being promoted to his current role. He had twenty staff in the production facility and another seven […]
It was not because you are a technical genius, nor an operations genius, marketing genius or sales genius. It is not because you have a PhD or an MBA or a list of other certificates, diplomas or degrees. It is not because you have years of experience in the company, nor an extensive industry network, […]
Our world is changing rapidly. People now have access to almost all the information that exists. Even tightly held government secrets are now available for public scrutiny. Admittedly there is also a massive amount of useless information, but we humans are great learners and we’ll soon find ways of filtering the rubbish. We’ll learn to […]
