Leadership, Performance
You’re time-poor, and interested in your progression, but how and when do you get the chance to manage your career and consciously, thoughtfully, develop the skills you believe you need for that brilliant future career? Or, you’re time-poor, and interested...
Gender diversity, Inclusion, Leadership, Performance
Lately I’ve been discussing the need for a fresh look at ‘imposter phenomenon’ and how helpful it is. An alternative explanation for it is identity threat, feelings of threat and anxiety that are evoked when your demographic identity is in the minority – for example,...
Coaching, Gender diversity, Inclusion, Increasing effectiveness, Influence, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Power, Productivity
…..and why we need to increase our comfort with reasonable doubt and modesty. Our fascination with Imposter Phenomenon (IP) seems to be part of our preoccupation with confidence as a critical component of leadership. That’s what makes it doubly challenging for...
Increasing effectiveness, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Productivity
Do you know how many of your leaders are getting up at 4am in order to ‘get their work done’ before the day’s meeting frenzy begins? It’s likely to be more than you think. Or perhaps not – perhaps you’re also trying this tactic to get on top of your meeting overload?...
Leadership, Power, Purpose
And how much we wish he did not have to give it. This speech, and all his other actions that I have seen, have all shown such moral courage. They are all about the higher ground. This appeal to the Russian people is deeply moving; it prioritises our shared humanity...
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...
Inclusion, Influence, Leadership, Power
In my latest CEO magazine article, I talk about getting a better balance and a healthier relationship with power. Read the full article here. Book a call with me to find out more about how my Leadership Coaching can help you understand what people value, and to use...
Coaching, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Purpose
A common purpose is one of the key drivers of high engagement so if you’re going to focus on improving engagement this is one area where it’s going to really pay you back. Work engagement is: the willingness to devote energy to work, feeling a sense of...
Coaching, Collaboration, Leadership, Power
Using your power to get more of what you value might lead to personal gain, but it’s the road to a poor leadership reputation. I’ve been reflecting on power recently – well, I guess I’ve been reflecting on it since I first took on a leadership role...
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, Culture, Job Satisfaction, Leadership
This chart from McKinsey helps to explain a key driver contributing to The Great Resignation. Organisations are failing to get beneath the surface of what people actually want, or listen to them when they tell them, as I’ve heard is occurring in some organisations....
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...
Ideal Learning State, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Performance
Burnout can reduce people’s ambitions and sense of worth while decimating the will to work. In my October CEO Magazine article I investigate the fine line between healthy stress and burnout in today’s round-the-clock work culture. Read the full article...
Career acceleration, Coaching, Leadership
Lynda Grattan says ‘There’s a ‘silver lining’ to the pandemic: the opportunity to make work lives more purposeful, productive, agile, and flexible.’ My silver lining, as we’ve lurched from one version of lockdown to the next here in Melbourne, has been my...
Coaching, Increasing effectiveness, Leadership, 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. Delegating helps to rebalance the amount of time devoted to low risk/importance vs high...
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...
Ideal Learning State, Leadership, Performance, Purpose
In my June article, I outlined a number of ways in which to avoid work’s hidden burnout crisis. In my July CEO Magazine article I’m sharing six hacks to make it easier to achieve more, rather than less, and to feel the satisfaction of doing what matters most. Read the...
Culture, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Performance
Between being engaged, feeling vital, and feeling burnt-out, there’s a lot of stress and pain that may continue for some time. In their research, Michael Leiter and Christina Maslach found that one of the factors that commonly tipped workers into burnout was a sense...
Ideal Learning State, Job Satisfaction, Leadership
There’s no question that COVID-19 has increased the level of anxiety and burnout in our lives. UK research showed that levels of distress in the community doubled in 2020. The rate of mental distress in the Australian community was 2.5 times the rate prior to the...