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July 17, 2014

What Would Be Your Advice?

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 […]

July 15, 2014

Isn’t This the Common Problem in Organisations?

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 […]

July 10, 2014

Expectations or Agreements?

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 […]

July 8, 2014

Do You Remember or Can You Imagine?

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? […]

July 3, 2014

How to Earn Trust and Respect in the Workplace

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 […]

July 1, 2014

The Only Four Actions a Leader Can Take

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 […]

June 26, 2014

Leadership, Fellowship and Followship – Ideal Organisational Behaviour

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 – […]

June 19, 2014

The Introverted Leader’s Four Biggest Challenges

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: […]

June 3, 2014

Coaching by Leaders and Managers – Why it can fail and how you can make it work (Part 1 of 5)

BlessingWhite recently posted an excellent article on why coaching (by workplace leaders and managers) doesn’t work. The article focussed on the five main causes of failed internal coaching and a general direction for the remedy for each cause. This post covers the first cause and together with the following four posts over the next couple […]

May 29, 2014

What If Leaders Asked These Seven Questions Regularly?

Imagine if every leader, manager or supervisor at all levels of your organisation had the habit of asking the following seven questions with appropriate frequency: How are you going? - Aimed as a general and opening question to rapidly establish rapport. What have you achieved since we last met? - To see what has occurred […]

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