How Successful Leaders Enable Better Performance
Values Driven Leadership Sustainable business change comes when business leaders align their values and behaviours to build high performing teams. As a business owner you are often wrestling with the all too familiar pressures to grow the business, whilst maintaining cash flow in a competitive marketplace. But, failing to focus on values will mean you […]
How To Work On Your Business
As a business owner you face a constant challenge: do I work on business development or work in the business to deliver today. For small business owners, this can be particularly challenging. However, it can all too often be the issue for leaders in larger organisations too. As someone who worked in the complex world of large […]
How Many Monkeys Are You Carrying?
I was engaged in a leadership coaching session and suddenly became aware of how sad the person looked as he talked about his life at work. His frame was hunched over, his eyes had lost their sparkle, and his speech was slower than usual. Monkeys On Your Back My image was of a chap carrying a full […]
How Not To Waste 60% Of Your Capability!
If as a leader you are not enabling and developing a positive and open culture to harness the potential of every employee in the business to enable it to achieve purpose; develop and grow in the market place then you are unlikely to be effective in your role. Do you believe me or not? The starting […]
How Learned Behaviour Can Impact Mindset
Command And Control Thinking My learning on the journey of life has taught me that the education system has taught us that ‘teacher knows best’. The system ensures that Teachers have the script: they have all the answers. They have the power and authority over the class (well they did in my day!). They decide […]
How can we show we hit the monthly targets!
The Blame Frame I was commuting on a train recently and found myself listening to the conversations going on around me in the carriage. My fellow commuters were all business people, all absorbed in their latest panic. Papers spread across their laps, or on tables; laptops open with phones pinned to their ears. Nothing new […]
How To Lead Effective Change Management
Facing Challenges One night driving home from work I began thinking about the challenges for leaders in the workplace given the context of a tough economic climate. The pressures to continue to make business efficiencies and drive business growth. The art of effective change management. For some reason it made me think about my […]
How To Create Time To Think
Of course it’s not possible to create time, but you can be better at time management. This requires a different approach to leadership. Take a moment to reflect upon the madness of the schedules that run our corporate lives. What can you do to change it? Running to Stand Still I find myself working with […]
