The challenge of employee engagement is not solely the preserve of HR. The challenge is for those in leadership roles across the country.
Speak now or forever hold your peace: 6 tips to help you have difficult conversations
Difficult conversations. I’ve had lots of them, as I’m sure you have. There was a time when I’d avoid them like the plague. Particularly when it involved feeding back to someone who I didn’t really get on with, or who was higher up the food chain than me.
The performance-attitude balance: 6 ways to manage your rock stars
In a recent leadership coaching session, a client asked, “how do I manage someone whose performance is great but whose attitude is, at best, questionable? And how the hell do I give them feedback on their attitude?”
Why consistency is everything if you want to improve and succeed
I’ve just finished reading Tim Ferriss’ new book, ‘Tools of Titans’ and the one overarching takeaway was that consistency is king, queen and everything in between. Tim, himself, says, “It’s not what you know, it’s what you do consistently”.
Communicate! Communicate! Communicate! (if you want to lead an excellent organisation)
Peters and Waterman identified eight attributes that excellent organisations typically have in common. Whilst reading through the attributes, it struck me that there was one underlying principle for all eight: Communication.
With great power comes great responsibility: How to spot and manage power in organisations
Power left unchecked and unbalanced can take a leader and an organisation to a dark place.