One of the trickiest things for leaders – especially new leaders – can be navigating workplace relationships. It’s especially tough for people who are promoted into leadership roles within the same team. A question I’m so often asked around this is: “Can I be friends with the people I lead?” The tough love response to […]
Tag Archives: leadership
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Jan
Jan
Leadership is about making decisions—big and small—that guide people, teams, organisations, and communities. But how can we, as leaders, be sure we’re making the right decisions? Short answer to that question – we can’t! But we can make sure we are making decisions that we can live with. Data, strategies, and instincts all play critical […]
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Dec
Dec
At this time of year, it’s not uncommon for tempers to fray and for folk to become fractious. I get it. I’ve had my share of frustrations lately. We can’t control the behaviour of others. They get to be them, even if that means tantrums and foot-stomping (or table thumping). And you get to be […]
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Nov
Nov
Leadership encompasses three broad groups of competencies (specific knowledge/skills sets): ♥ Leading yourself ♦ Leading others ♠ Leading the organisation Leadership development often hones in on one or two of these competency groupings, but regularly fails to address all three. You can set your own leadership up on solid foundations with an intentional focus […]
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Oct
Oct
Are you “settling”? Michelangelo reportedly once said: “The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” I’ve been thinking lately about how resilient, creative, smart and generally amazing we humans are. And yet so many […]
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Oct
Oct
You’re ambitious and you’re talented and suddenly find yourself having to lead a team of people who are not only older than you, but far more experienced. How to take charge in a way that doesn’t come across as apologetic, uncertain or worse – arrogant? The first thing to realise is that your age is […]
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Jul
Jul
The most successful leaders I have known are absolute super stars at one particular skill – asking questions. But not just any questions! It’s the calibre of the questions they ask that makes all the difference. Questions can open the door to improved decision-making, more strategic thinking and creativity. Good quality questions can also help […]
08
Jul
Jul
‘Love’ is not a term usually uttered in the same sentence as ‘leadership’. But if Covid19 has taught us anything it’s that there is enormous value in leaders who are empathic, compassionate and yes, even loving. We have learned that we need to resilience in the face of crisis and to be resilient, our people […]
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Jun
Jun
We each have intrinsic value. That’s a given. But what might happen if we took the time to consciously and proactively magnify the value we deliver as people and as leaders? I’ve been fascinated by what it means to be “high value” for some time and some of you will know that I have developed […]
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Jun
Jun
When I was at secondary school, I remember consciously thinking that I didn’t want to try too hard in case I bumped up against the edges of my potential. The thought of knowing where those boundaries were was more awful than any rewards that may have come with going ‘all in’ on my studies. It’s […]
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