The world needs better leadership. Australia needs better leadership. Our institutions like the banking industry and the Catholic Church need better leadership. Our organisations needs better leadership. I reckon it’s a safe bet that you wish you had better leadership at your work. Am I right? Most people I know want to be better leaders, …
I was talking to a client group recently about the importance of being authentic in our leadership. An important component of authenticity is reliability, or in other words, doing what you say you will do, following through and delivering on your promises. It’s important because reliability build trust and trust builds relationships. In my book …
As leaders, many of us have power. Power to make decisions, power to make things happen, power to give people feedback. In most cases, having power is not a bad thing, as long as we use it for good and not evil. With power comes responsibility. An important consideration when using power is thinking about how …
As the leader, are you owning the result? I like keeping things simple. Look at the results you are getting as the leader. They could be operational issues like productivity or safety, they may be financial like gross profit or net profit, or they may be people measures like absenteeism or levels of engagement. …
I reckon most people want to better at leadership, but don’t know where to start. That’s why I wrote my book, Road Rules for Leadership. It’s a simple, practical guide to effective leadership. Since launching it a couple of years ago I’ve shared the content with thousands of people, giving them the guidance and confidence …
I’ve been banging on recently about how we should stop trying to be perfect (because it ain’t going to happen) and just focus on becoming incrementally better. If we tried, each day, to just be a little better than we were the day before, and we did it for long enough, our leadership effectiveness would …
“I’d be a better leader if I just had more time” I have worked with thousands of aspiring leaders; managers that want to be more influential, but don’t have the time to be. It’s not as if it’s not important to them, it’s just that everything else is getting in the way and they simply …
In his book Essentialism, Greg McKeown encourages us to discern ‘the essential few from the trivial many’. He recommends focusing only on essential tasks, those things that make the highest value contribution to achieving our vision or purpose. (By the way, its a great read / listen. I highly recommend it). In order to make …
A hot topic at the moment is ‘employee engagement’. What is it and how important is it? When two people become engaged it means they are making a commitment to each other. It means that they intend to be loyal and loving into the future. It means that they care, deeply, about each other. How …
If you Google ‘leadership book’ you will find 425 million search results. ‘Leadership program’ will get you 447 million results. I guess you can’t blame people for feeling overwhelmed. I reckon one of the reasons people shy away from leadership responsibility is that they think it is hard. It can be, but it doesn’t have to be. …