Culture, Ideal Learning State, Increasing effectiveness, Influence, Leadership, Motivation, Purpose
The debate continues about whether or not, at least in Australia, the Great Resignation is a ‘thing’. Or whether it’s a ‘great realignment’, ‘great reshuffle’, or ‘great retention……. I reckon that coming out of two years of crisis, challenge and change, the one great...
Culture, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity
Smart people endure boring meetings. Why? Meetings are pretty useful for collaborative work, but they are rife with problems. Despite this, we have too many, suffer through boring ones, and need therapy after excruciating ones. We get caught too often in a groundhog...
Coaching, Leadership, Motivation, Purpose
Psychological safety is the start of so much that is important in leading and working well together. It builds safety and connection, which in turn nourishes trust and motivation, and that contributes in turn to growth, initiative and autonomy. For some of us, the...
Career Acceleration, Coaching, Increasing effectiveness, Leadership, Motivation, Performance
A key reason for increasing how much you delegate is that often too many low risk decisions are made at senior levels and that means that you lose focus on strategy and oversight. Many of the leadership challenges profiled in this book highlight this problem....
Career Acceleration, Coaching, Culture, Increasing effectiveness, Leadership, Motivation, Purpose
What does it take to love your work? A strong focus on structure. Structure your work so that you do what you love. The Figure below highlights the sequence of organising, prioritising and digitising work. Organise your work to maximise your best skills and...
Coaching, Increasing effectiveness, Leadership, Motivation, Purpose
Being caring, empathetic and human-centered is the best way to counteract the issue of heavy workloads and expectations of more, more, more. I thought we’d reached the limits of what was reasonable to expect from others, and from ourselves, some time ago…. Last year,...