You’ve started a new job in a new organization. You can’t go to your workplace. Every interaction with your peers and your leaders is online. What are you missing? You are a sales representative who’s job is to convince customers to buy your company’s products. You can’t visit them face…
49. Meeting with your Fears
It takes courage for most people to speak up in meetings. It doesn’t take much to convince them to not say anything. It’s easy to not be truthful, when telling the truth needs courage. To pretend that everything is ok when it’s not is the most common lie in meetings.…
48. Why Meet?
The Leadership Industry has a lot of complicated and confusing models about “Meetings” – categories, types and why they’re held. Most of these are about as useful as the instruction manual for your microwave oven. There’s only one ultimate purpose for Meetings in organizations. The ultimate and only true purpose…
47. Meeting your Culture…
Meetings get bad press – for good reasons. They’re useless or unproductive or boring… They’re a necessary evil… They waste my valuable time. Meetings are a useful window into the actual culture of a team and a great way to see real leadership style in action. They’re also incredibly important…
46. Why are you Chasing it ?
Creative people must be open to new ideas. Chasing a new objective can be exciting for the leader but also damaging or even harmful for their team… A leader’s job is to keep the team on track, by discerning what to chase and what to ignore. Often by not chasing…
45. “Keep your Friends close, and your Enemies even closer…”
Staying close to your enemies is not an easy or natural thing to do. Enemies are dangerous. Our subconscious wants to avoid them, so we feel better when we can’t see them. Leaders need to understand that urge and actively resist it. When we understand that our objectives have enemies…
44. What are you hungry for?
Are you and your team hungry for the same thing? It seems an obvious question. Sadly, it’s surprisingly common for leaders to have different objectives from their team members.. It’s useful to think of targets as prey. Something you want to catch. Something you’re hungry for. An effective team works…
43. Friend or Enemy…?
A key testing point for leaders is when their team fails to deliver. One way to look at failure is to see it as a defeat by an enemy. If your team are pigeons, one of them just got eaten by a cat. Another way to see it is as…
40. Are you Helping?
There’s a lot to be said for Active Leadership. In fact, an awful lot is said, with constant emphasis on action, energy, boldness & courage, especially in western business culture, where these attributes are highly valued in business and rewarded by recruiters and senior managers alike. Good leaders in any…
35. DFAIC
Many Leaders struggle to balance Aggression and Openness. Aggression breaks down resistance and motivates action. Openness allows us to see other possibilities and change course. The balance point between Aggression and Openness is… Assertiveness. A good way to see this struggle is to watch how leaders manage change in their…