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 […]
Photo by Will Suddreth on Unsplash Case 1 Max is the CEO of a mid-size engineering company. He’d just attended a conference of engineers examining the future of fabrication. He was brimming with ideas. Calling a meeting of his direct reports on his return, he required them to come up with a plan to reduce costs by 20%, […]
Published first on July 5, 2019 on LinkedIn Pulse Imagine this: Andrew and Grace began their business eight years ago, after Andrew was laid off from his previous long-term employer. A&G Fabrications has 60 staff, leases a large modern building in the marine industrial park, providing custom fabrication services to their regional marine sector. Andrew’s son […]
Owner 1 Maureen, business owner, locked herself in her office. She was shaking with anger. Gary, her best salesperson, in front of her team, had just demanded a raise, saying if he wasn’t there the business would fail. Gary wasn’t correct, but it was what he believed. Maureen is a good person, her people love […]
I respectfully fired most of my clients. It’s not their fault, it’s me – I’ve changed. I’ve changed my business model after 20 years. I’m transitioning to online and reaching into new territory. I’m still learning, gone down two wrong paths, lost a heap of time and money. But I’m […]
When a leader develops the courage to become authentically humble, the benefits flow not only to the leader, they flow also to her or his team, or organisation. Being humble never means being weak or ‘soft’. It means having the courage to: Show gratitude for others’ efforts. Own up to one’s own mistakes in a […]
Small business is the backbone of our economy. Your success is good for all of us, especially for you and your people. You can rapidly enhance your success by attending to these five ideas: Persistent problems in your business occur mainly because the right leader doesn’t have the right conversation with the right person at […]
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 […]
Here’s how you can tell if you are: Persistent problems in your business. You feel it’s too risky to approach the perpetrator/s. You don’t want to make it worse. You kid yourself that it will get better naturally. You have a feeling of guilt about it, sometimes keeping you awake at night. Whilst these feelings […]
After nearly two decades of providing my executive coaching service to leaders and executives across the workplace spectrum, I’m able to attest that the greatest cause of workplace dysfunction and poor performance is this: The inability to conduct difficult conversations in a timely manner That inability lies not only with leaders, managers, supervisors, but also […]
