The 3 Biggest Mistakes Leaders Make Which Diminishes Their Credibility Inconveniently, I’ve always had a conscience for some reason. This is not a holier than thou admission, it is just telling it how it is. It doesn’t mean I’ve always done the right thing, in fact I could fill this … Read More
To give clarity to my paradigm on leadership and management, I set out below my leadership development model which gives on overview of my own philosophy. I fell into the leadership and management field really. When I left school at 16, with no expectations other than eventually to get married … Read More
The effectiveness or not of some leaders Interpersonal skills often seem to be intrinsically linked to their personality or character. I often wonder if it’s because people think these skills are an unchangeable character trait that they aren’t given the priority they should in organisations. A question I see … Read More
6 Practical Ways Managers Can Motivate Their Team As a young and inexperienced manager, one of my earliest recollections was a challenge by an equally young and inexperienced member of staff. He was popular and influential and he decided that he was going to make life as difficult as he … Read More
Working Long Hours is no longer tenable It amazes me that in this century we are still talking about a long hours culture. Research completed in the UK by the TUC, reported in the Independent earlier this year states that employees in the UK work an average of 7.18 hours … Read More
Difficult conversations don’t have to end in a dispute The worst kinds of conversation are those when you have to deliver a negative message to a team member. Whether it is a performance, behaviour or skill set problem, there is something in our human make-up which just makes us feel … Read More
Managing poor performance can be one of the most stressful parts of managing a team. The problem is of course; good managers know that the vast majority of employees want to come to work to do a good job. When an employee is not performing, more often than not it … Read More
Need Inspiration ? I work best when I’m inspired. What do I mean by inspired? For me, it is a feeling of “all’s well” with the world: A certainty that nothing is going to go wrong and what I am doing is meant to be. When I am inspired, time … Read More
For many years I aimed to go the extra mile in terms for customers and was extremely successful. Setting a vision and outcomes in a working environment, it was pretty easy to set stretching and challenging objectives, not only to meet customer expectations, but to exceed them. As I matured … Read More
The desire for specialness is often unconscious Being a great leader is paradoxical. Leaders have to be pretty special people to be great, although in order to be great they fundamentally understand that everyone is the same. We are either all special or all ordinary.In group work, I invariably ask … Read More
