How to assign work to different personality types
As a new manager, it can be baffling when your co-workers react differently to assignments... What fills one colleague with enthusiasm can cause another to feel put out. Motivating every mem...
Leadership
As a new manager, it can be baffling when your co-workers react differently to assignments... What fills one colleague with enthusiasm can cause another to feel put out. Motivating every mem...
Team development
You may consider yourself a great leader, with a team who respects you and does as you ask, but one of the key currencies that teams trade on is trust. If trust isn’t shared between the team...
Leadership
As a leader, I bet that you can easily categorise the members of your team if I ask you to. Who are the office heroes, who are the extras and who are the dreaded working dead, the office zom...
Personal development
I find myself reflecting on what it means to join a company where you’re a senior leader – but also a newbie. It’s a strange mix. Striking the balance between being ready and willing to soak...
Personal development
Does your workplace encourage mixing the personal with the professional? If not, it could be missing a massive trick when it comes to employee engagement. In his book ‘Vital Friends: The Peo...
Leadership
Leader's can't be authentic alone What started as a brief overview of what makes an authentic leader sparked great discussions and debates between Steve and I, and made us both realise that ...
Leadership
Over the past few weeks, I have seen some of the most amazing examples of teamwork that coincidentally both involve music, and both of them have really got me thinking about how the leaders ...
Change
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative" - Oscar Wilde Stability as a means to business success doesn’t work anymore. The past several decades have seen one thing become more an...
Team development
"That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people" - Steve Jobs We all know of the great accomplishments that can be achieve...