If you are stressing with the thought of addressing an employee's behaviour or performance keep this in mind and maybe even say it out loud to the person you are speaking with. In my role as your manager, it is my responsibility to... This pre-frame helps to keep the correct perspective - you are having this conversation because [...]
Recently I have been asked to submit proposals and there is a common theme, a lack of personal accountability amongst the team. With each conversation it becomes clearer and clearer that part of the problem lies with the leaders as they are not holding themselves accountable to the team which means the accountability model the team needs is missing. Why aren’t leaders [...]
I recently took up a cold shower challenge and can say the first shower certainly woke me up and I don’t mean from a good night‘s sleep... it really gave me a jolt and got me thinking. What am I doing - it wasn’t about taking a cold shower it was about my life and [...]
Is fear getting in the way of being better... there was a time when we had no fear of failure - when learning to speak we weren’t afraid of being laughed at, when learning to walk we were not afraid of falling. So what happened? Learning is what happened... we learned fear, we learned self-awareness [...]
Have you ever made a bad decision... if you are human you have, we all have that is how we learn. As a leader you are in a prime position to demonstrate how to shake off a bad decision and move on. My message today is to literally shake it off... like a dog drying [...]
The other day I was working on a contract and I kept going round and round and round nothing was right – I wasn’t making any progress and my day was almost over. I followed all the rules; got some fresh air, went for a walk, then a run and then did some yoga - [...]