Transformational Leaders – the time is NOW. Organisations and teams are grappling with ever increasing complexity, rates and scales of change, ongoing ambiguity and economic uncertainty. Teams are overloaded, managers are frazzled, people are fearful and organisations are battening down the hatches and reducing spending and overheads. It’s a difficult climate right now and people and their …
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Transformational Leaders – the time is NOW.
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What Teams Need
Posted 16/04/2013 By Sean in LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, TEAM BUILDING With | No CommentsDo you know what your teams need from you? It’s pretty simple really. Purpose – a clear understanding of why they’re actually a team. Priorities – there’s always too much to do, make sure your teams know which things matter most. Roles – yep, just like a football team has players performing different roles …
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Team Development – even more essential in difficult times
Posted 09/04/2013 By Sean in EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT, GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR PEOPLE, LEADERSHIP With | No CommentsTeam-Development – even more essential in difficult times. I believe it’s more essential for several reasons. In difficult times the team needs it more. Under pressure the cracks appear (or get bigger). You get a greater return on your investment. Often costs less to do. Sends a crystal clear message that your people matter to …
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Leadership Development…. the Starbucks Way
Posted 07/03/2013 By Sean in EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT, GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR PEOPLE, LEADERSHIP With | No CommentsLeadership is a critical ingredient in business success. Thought companies weren’t investing in developing their people? I know I did. GFC, economic downturn, rising unemployment, cost cutting, economic rationalisation, market contraction and all that palaver. Well think again. In a recent Fast Company article I came across this gem. Starbucks recently ran their Leadership Lab in …
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Saying it is as good as doing it…. right?
Posted 05/07/2012 By Sean in CHANGE MANAGEMENT, GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR PEOPLE, LEADERSHIP With | No CommentsThere’s a certain theory put about by Derek Sivers that suggests you shouldn’t tell others your goals if you really want to achieve them. His reasoning, and it makes sense to me, is that we get to ‘live the experience’ just in the telling, including the release of ‘feel-good’ endorphins into our brain. This ‘sense …
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Supporting Staff Through Times of Change – supporting managers??
Posted 25/06/2012 By Sean in CHANGE MANAGEMENT, GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR PEOPLE, LEADERSHIP With | No CommentsCarried on from previous post….. 1. Communicate well 2. Tackle change fatigue 3. Listen to concerns 4. Dealing with the impact on individual managers 5. Resilience 6. Maintaining engagement during change As individuals experiencing change people will often make it all about them. In doing so there are a number of perspectives that are ignored. One …
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Supporting Staff through Times of Change – Managing Change Fatigue
Posted 18/06/2012 By Sean in CHANGE MANAGEMENT, GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR PEOPLE, LEADERSHIP With | No CommentsCarried on from previous post….. 1. Communicate well 2. Tackle change fatigue 3. Listen to concerns 4. Dealing with the impact on individual managers 5. Resilience 6. Maintaining engagement during change Let’s start by getting a shared understanding of what I mean by ‘change fatigue’. Although there is some evidence to suggest that people are getting burned …
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Supporting Staff Through Times of Change…
Posted 14/06/2012 By Sean in CHANGE MANAGEMENT, GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR PEOPLE, LEADERSHIP With | No CommentsCarried on from previous post….. 1. Communicate well 2. Tackle change fatigue 3. Listen to concerns 4. Dealing with the impact on individual managers 5. Resilience 6. Maintaining engagement during change Communicate well. It sounds self-explanatory this one but it’s actually a little subjective. What does ‘well’ mean to you? To your employees? What form of …
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Supporting Staff through times of Change
Posted 13/06/2012 By Sean in CHANGE MANAGEMENT, GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR PEOPLE, LEADERSHIP With | 3 CommentsContinual Change Creates Turbulent Seas It’s fair to say that change is pretty much a constant these days. It’s happening everywhere, all around us at an increasing rate and complexity and the impacts are like ripples on a pond, or waves on the ocean. Because of this, the magnitude, urgency and frequency of change …
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Are you an Office Dictator?
Posted 13/01/2012 By Sean in LEADERSHIP With | No Comments
