So first, let me explain my colourful language. When I speak on the impact that leaders have on employee engagement, I share my concept of what engagement means. It’s simply how much employees care. I’ll ask the audience to describe a workplace that has high levels of engagement. The responses include; people are happy, they …
There is a myth that we can have it all and we can do everything we want to do. For years this concept has been sold to us, but I’m not buying it. A key concept in my leadership teaching is about time management. I ask everyone that I work with if they have too much …
One of the best stories to come out of the Rio Olympics was the gold medal won by 24 year old Sydney woman, Chloe Esposito in the Women’s Modern Pentathlon. I must admit I didn’t know much about the event until I saw a video about Chloe’s miraculous win. Click hereto see the 4 minute video. …
Leadership is about positively influencing others. In order to influence others, you need to have a good relationship with them. One of the best ways to establish and strengthen relationships is for there to be trust between the parties. Trust comes from reliability. Ultimately, being reliable means that you do what you say you are going to …
As someone who provides leadership development programs and advice, I sometimes experience resistance to the time, cost or effort associated with building leadership capability. I was once asked by a senior executive who was considering a training proposal I had provided “What happens if I train them and they leave?” I replied “What happens if you …
The new financial year might just be the reason that you decide to invest in your team. I’d love to be a part of that. I’m calling July ‘Free Speech Month’ and I am offering a limited number of organisations the opportunity to book me to come along to your place for a team chat. I’m …
We become leaders the day we decide to help people grow, not numbers Simon Sinek I have been emphasising with the aspiring leaders I work with lately, that leadership is not all about us, but what we do with and for the people we lead. Simon Sinek’s recent Facebook post absolutely resonates with this. We all want to …
Click here if you want to watch the video of this blog (2 min) I am often asked for a definition of leadership. People tend to like to define things so they are easier to understand. I just Googled ‘definition of leadership’ and I got 271 million search results. As you know, I like to keep …
Click here if you’d like to see the video version of this blog. Years ago a client taught me a really valuable trick to massively improve communication. Close the loop. We were working together on a big project. This required frequent and detailed communication, mostly by email. I would often get an email reply from him with …
Many of us are thinking about planning for the coming year. Click on the video above for a short (1 minute) video that might just help 2016 be your best ever.