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What is your SAY:DO ratio?

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 …

Could you be a Crap Boss?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but could you be a Crap Boss (CB)? 1. A CB is unclear what they want from their people. They are ambiguous about their expectations. It is likely that they are not sure what they want from their people but they still expect them to know what to …

As the Leader, are you owning the results?

  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. …

The low hanging fruit of leadership

The fruit at the top of the tree just might be the best, but if you can’t reach it, you can’t eat it. Most people know what they should be doing to be a better leader, but they may feel that it’s out of reach because it’s either too hard or too time consuming. Here …

THIS IS WHAT IS HOLDING BACK YOUR LEADERSHIP: TIME.

“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 …

ARE YOU GETTING ENGAGED  THIS YEAR?

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 …

FIVE THINGS FIRST TIME MANAGERS NEED TO KNOW

Last week I made a presentation to a group about increasing employee engagement and improving culture. At the end I opened up for questions. “A couple of us are first time managers – what advice would you give us?” Great question! Here are five things that I think first time managers would benefit from knowing. 1. …

5 SIMPLE STEPS TO EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

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. …

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