There is nothing to be ashamed of by asking for help. When we pretend to be perfect, hide our imperfections, and discourage people from giving us feedback and ideas to improve, we lose followers and our ability to influence people.
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How do you use your prime time?
Priming is the conscious act of creating space and adjusting our thoughts and emotions to our best state. How do you make the most of your prime time? Here are some priming triggers to help you create highly effective leadership off-sites.
Make Your Lack of Experience a Strength
Have you ever wanted to apply for a new role, approach a new challenge, or even step into a new industry, yet were unsure how to defend your lack of direct experience? All of us have a unique and special set of skills and experiences that we bring as an outsider. Don’t let being outsider be perceived as a liability, use your experiences and imagination to create your own rationale about what you bring to both inside and outside situations.
Use September to Spark Your Strategic Growth–Week 4
Most leaders are preoccupied with their day-to-day business, leaving the business building strategy undiscussed and weak, creating huge risks for the company and stakeholders. Here’s a a valuable resource for my strategy work with clients, enabling them to create step changes in their strategy outcomes. Perhaps it can help you too.
Use September to Spark Your Strategic Growth–Week 3
Sentient Strategy was released earlier this year and is a must read for strategy minded leaders. His insights are anchored in business experiences, span.ning many decades and even if you don’t agree with every insight, you will find that this is a strategy resource that provokes and stimulates strategic thinking and acting.
Use September to Spark Your Strategic Growth – Week 1
How well does the leadership team fulfil the expectations and objectives of your strategy? Over the next four weeks, I’ll share some blockbuster strategy resources to help any leadership team sharpen their strategy game.
Hidden agendas in your executive team?
Hidden agendas cripple organization’s performance. They discourage people from being open and honest. How do you address and manage hidden agendas in your leadership team?
The sweet smell of a collaborative climate
What’s a collaborative climate “smell” like? Here are the five essential elements of a highly collaborative meeting environment. Can’t smell the aromas yet? Then read on.
Turbo Tips to Play at Your Best at Virtual Meetings
Meeting after meeting, after meeting. How can you show up, over and over again, at each and every meeting focused and prepared? Check out these tips to help turbo charge you before each and every virtual meeting you attend.
Engaging with Engagement
Many leaders and their teams confess that their efforts do not lead to improved engagement results. After time, people see the engagement survey process with less optimism and more skepticism. If you and your leadership team truly want to shift engagement, which ultimately means creating a culture of ownership, you have to make it personal, here’s how.