What are you at work - a coach, a counsellor or a mentor? This article takes a brief look at these three very different roles and explains why it’s critical that you understand what you’re doing. The words coaching, mentoring and counselling are used very freely in...
Do you find it hard to delegate? Bad delegation affects you, your team and your business. Here are 8 ways to improve your delegation skills. Peter Drucker of the Drucker Institute saw effective delegation as essential to his ‘management by objectives’ philosophy. He...
How empathetic are you? Are you a softie as a leader? Read this article and find out about the simple E test you can try out at work. American social scientists invented the E test to investigate the connection between power and empathy. This seemingly innocent party...
Are you the great team player you think you are? Check out this article to see whether collaboration comes naturally to you. If not, there are 5 things you can do about it. The big question is; are human beings naturally team players? When you think about the...
How should you speak to people so they really trust you? Here are ten expectations your staff and colleagues have of you as a leader. These are some of the often unspoken things people are concerned about when you speak, change direction or priorities, have a...
Have you taken a look at how honest you are within your working environment? Use these six informative tips to kick-start your self-awareness. Being aware of your thoughts, beliefs and feelings, as well as knowing what drives your behaviour, goes a long way to...
How ready do you feel to step up and assume leadership? I don’t mean ‘get promotion’ or ‘take a new role’, though these often require leadership. I mean those situations where you are not empowered, have no authority and people don’t seem to be hanging on your every...
We will all have had some personal experience of following a ‘leader’. At a very early age our ‘leader’ may have been the primary school teacher who inspired us (or terrified us). Later in life it may be the CEO who runs the organisation where we work, or the...
If you’re a senior executive in professional services it’s unlikely that you yourself are one of the millennials. However if you are a lawyer, wealth manager, estate agent or similar it’s very likely that you will be recruiting and managing this particular generation,...
What skills do you think you need in order to be really successful at work? It may seem obvious; you need, of course, to have very good technical skills, by which I mean you need to be an excellent lawyer, wealth manager, estate agent, manufacturer or whatever it is...
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Find fresh ideas and approaches to resolve your business issues, make a noticeable difference in your performance, and achieve long-term goals.