A Recipe for Visionary Leadership

When it gets down to basics, we all have the same psychological operating systems, we give out and absorb energy, we take in information, think, feel, and make decisions.  However we use those depends on our own preferences, beliefs, values and experiences.  For many leaders being congruent with the way … Continue reading

Great Leadership: The Dynamics Of Workplace Bullying

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Bullying or alleged bullying is always stressful I don’t think I have ever been in a work situation where there has not been at least some discussion about whether behaviours can be construed as bullying.  I have been in some where bullying has occurred and people have experienced being bullied and it’s … Continue reading

Five Ways To Step Out Of The World And Honour Yourself

You have to strike an equal balance between Work, Rest and Play I write a lot about inspiration and all that goes along with that.  I am great at describing great vision and different strategies and behaviours needed to make things happen.  Big action is often my cry.  And don’t … Continue reading

Managing Performance Is An Emotional Business – Isn’t It? – Emotional Intelligence

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Great Leaders Have Emotional Intelligence: I originally wrote this as a guest blog post for Kapta Systems, a leading performance management system developer.   I was and am heartened there are system developers out there who recognise the importance of emotional intelligence and developing people to make a performance system work.  … Continue reading

7 Deadly Workplace Sins

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Whatever your role in the workplace, I’m betting you would like to go to work and be able to do your best in an environment which is fun, productive, friendly, happy, inspirational and positive, makes a difference, and has a great reputation (oh and pays enough to give you a … Continue reading

The Single Most Important Question to Ask to Get Great Results

As a school girl, I was pretty horrendous at meeting deadlines for handing in homework.  At the time I didn’t realise the more I was rebuked and reminded I was going to ruin my future, the more resistant I was to doing the work at all. Luckily I scraped by. Progressing to … Continue reading

Making family friendly work for you – 5 mistakes and how to avoid them

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Family Friendly is an employee and business benefit If you struggle to get the very best people to come and work for you.   If you believe your employees aren’t giving their best, or are stressed because their working life and domestic life don’t work well together.  Or if you … Continue reading

How to accelerate workplace experience – for new or inexperienced staff

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Experience is often essential, but it takes time! One of the most valued attributes an employee can bring to the workplace is their experience.  In a fast changing world where employees are more likely to move from job to job for a number of reasons;  sometimes great knowledge and skill … Continue reading

The Followers’ Guide to: What your Leader wants

Do Followers know what their leaders want? Today, a search on Amazon.com showed 98,516 results for “leadership”.  A further search for “followship” came back with a mere 39 results.  I searched again for “team player” and received over 101,000 results, although “team player” wasn’t quite what I was looking for.   … Continue reading

When navel-gazing can be healthy

As a young manager it was drummed into me that I focus on my customers and the services or products I provided to the customer.  It didn’t occur to me to question the philosophy in those days, after all the most senior people in the business advocated it and I certainly cared … Continue reading