In coaching clients on Leadership we've noticed an early sticking point. Though different people give different reasons, there's a common theme: at this point, people seem to be showing resistance to 'stepping up' to Leadership. Of course, they don't accept that it's...
As a business owner and leader, how do you gain positive insights on the things you could do differently today so that this improves your company's outcomes and your leadership style? Here are the questions, and the resulting actions, that leaders should be asking...
Want to ensure that people always leave your office more inspired than when they came in? Then here are six communication skills that will help you to become a better leader: Be more focused on others than yourself You have not communicated well if people have not...
We recently came across this interesting article on Paul Sloane's Destination Innovation website which is worth posting here: Ellen Langer is a social psychologist and a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. She has been described as the...
You've got your vision, your passion, and your strategy and plan. So why is it that despite displaying appropriate leadership competencies, you sometimes fail? In practice, there is one factor that distinguishes success and failure in leadership: your flexibility of...
As a leader, one of the major challenges you will face is how to successfully develop the people in your organisation. Your team will need to be challenged, supported, encouraged to be creative and allowed to show initiative and make mistakes. You need them to be...
Most people naturally prefer one leadership style, though in fact there are many. You could choose anything from 'command and control' through to full delegation: Telling Selling Supporting Delegating Telling is traditional 'command and control'. You tell people what...
As a leader, you wield the influence to improve a team member's job performance, to change how they think, to even persuade someone to discard a harmful habit. But your communication methods can stall your progress as a leader. Here are nine reasons and ways to...
In many organisations we visit we see meetings where people arrive late, and unprepared for the topics to be discussed. Often, people openly check their emails on their phones or laptops during meetings, or even answer their mobile and leave the room for a while to...
Do you hold regular one-to-one meetings with your direct reports? And if you do, how effective are they? We look at what you can do to improve those meetings, and offer you an informative one-page guide to download. Occasionally we hear comments such as ‘Oh yes, we...
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