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Leadership
Can you hold your team members to account? How to adapt your leadership style to manage different levels of accountability
By managing individual team members’ expectations, and keeping a bird’s eye view of the process, you’ll be able to juggle different levels of accountability in your team and achieve the targets and results you want. Watch out, though, as it all starts with you… What...
Not getting what you want? Why ‘would you mind’, ‘shall we’, and ‘I’ll try’ won’t help you with your direct requests
The world is more interconnected than ever before, so you’d think that direct communication would be a skill we’d become adept at from an early age. Not so, it seems. Many people seem to have missed learning or actively avoided learning it: the skill of making a...
How far ahead are you planning?
In a thought-provoking post from Neil Crofts, he looks at the effect of short-term planning on the way we live and work, and whether we should be challenging our notion of this. Most of us when we are young find it difficult to think more than a short time ahead. As...
Social skills won’t plug lack of knowledge in management and leadership of second generation organisations
The vast majority of companies fall in the middle between a start-up and a fully mature organisation, and need different management and leadership from either of the other two. When I started my last ‘proper’ job in the early 1980s I quickly registered on all the...
Creating effective partnerships in the workplace
We look at what makes workplace partnerships truly effective, and the mindset shifts you need to achieve them. Can you imagine what it would be like working in a team, or a department, or a whole organisation, where this definition of partnership formed one of the...
The 7 decision-making traps to make you falter
We probably all have set ways of approaching problems, finding solutions and ultimately making decisions. What you might not realise is that how you make decisions can be heavily influenced by a mindset derived from questionable reasoning and preconceived ideas. We...
Start owning your perceptions and your feedback will improve
In our last blog post we introduced the 'parrot on your shoulder' concept to describe your critical inner dialogue. You can use this device to produce well-formed pieces of feedback. Here's a brief recap on the steps in the process: Step 1: Identify the situation....
Get a grip on your inner dialogue to make more informed decisions
Are you aware of your inner dialogue, that 'parrot on your shoulder'? We give you the tools to assess your very own internal critic so you can think more clearly and make better, more informed decisions. “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they...
Think you’re a good listener? Learn how to ask the right questions
If you think that asking closed questions as a leader will provide you with the right answers, you should think again. Here we look at an alternative mode of questioning, which empowers people to find the answers themselves. “I don't pretend we have all the answers....
Find fresh ideas and approaches to resolve your business issues, make a noticeable difference in your performance, and achieve long-term goals.
Find fresh ideas and approaches to resolve your business issues, make a noticeable difference in your performance, and achieve long-term goals.