MBTI is an essential tool for you and your team. As a leader, manager or HR Professional, one of your foundational strengths is the depth of your own self-awareness and awareness of how other’s tick. You know the key to motivating people is being completely open and transparent and being…
In my article about the Hidden Power for Leadership and Life, I wrote about how beliefs, attitudes and expectations drive the outcomes within teams. In today’s blog I am expanding on those ideas and identifying how the power of the mind can be harnessed to lead your team. The conscious…
Of course, most leadership positions in the business world are focussed on achievement and results. Meeting targets, getting results, setting goals are usually the main focus of any board or CEO. After all, isn’t it the job of the leader about taking and leading others to a pre-determined destination? Usually…
I would like to invite you to a leadership challenge. Don’t worry there is no work required from you during this leadership challenge. You can simply read, observe, catch up if that is what you would like to do. Alternatively, if something inspires you, then please join in, submit relevant…
Are you creative in your routine? A human myth is that there are creative people and people who simply aren’t. The truth is that we are all creating. Some of us simply create more routine in our lives than others. Some create a more adventurous lifestyle, hone artistic qualities or…
It seems one of the vital components for success is happiness One of the most frustrating problems I found when I led and managed teams was my inability to make all of my team members happy, despite my best efforts. Of course the frustration was misguided because in those early…
In the new social world we now live in, the importance of teamwork in any organisation is key. Being a collaborative team player, aligning purpose, values and effort will be the hallmarks of a great employee. Andrew Armour sets out the need for collaborative working in Why Superteams Win In…
Most progressive people in business understand only too well that the old paradigm of faulty thinking has long gone. Examples like “profit before values”: underhand strategies of “the end justifies the means” or “we are important so we deserve special privileges” have been exposed and deleted by the best organisations. …
Influential Leaders have several components in place, working together, which I call the leadership formula, which compels people to join in with and embrace their leadership. The leadership formula usually involves a number of fairly simple concepts. Yet, despite the simplicity of such concepts, there still appears to be a…
Disputes at work cost us much more than loss of productivity As we speak I have placed myself at the centre of a dispute. Now for me this is quite a big deal because quite frankly I am against being in dispute per se. The details of the dispute are…