Leadership

  • Likeability & Leadership: Does It Matter?

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    Likeability & Leadership: Does It Matter? During a recent leadership workshop, I posed a simple yet revealing ice breaker: “Share one thing that you like or appreciate about your manager.” What followed was a profound insight into effective leadership dynamics. As participants engaged in the “creeping circle” exercise, 90 percent […]

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  • Five things effective leaders do

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    Five things effective leaders do Imagine what it would be like to arrive at work and have a manageable number of strategic projects on your to-do list. These projects would be challenging and thought-provoking. Making progress would have a positive impact on your team, your business, and your customers. This […]

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  • The best leadership candidates may not be who you’d expect

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    Many organisations favour overconfidence, narcissism, and incompetence in leadership candidates. What can be done differently to help the best people rise to the top? June 24, 2024 A recent episode of the McKinsey Talks Talent podcast discusses research findings from Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. Which explore why so many seemingly bad bosses rise […]

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  • Managing The Chaos

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    Managing The Chaos This past weekend I sat on a business panel in front of a couple hundred freelancers, solopreneurs and digital agencies. At one point a person asked about how to handle the challenge where growth was happening in one part of the organisation but wasn’t getting matched elsewhere […]

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  • Building Extraordinary Teams Of Ordinary People

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    Building Extraordinary Teams Of Ordinary People Today I’d like to suggest that building extraordinary teams of ordinary people is a better move than creating ordinary teams of extraordinary people. Makes sense, right? Can we start with something I know we can all agree with? No matter what team you assemble, […]

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  • How Leaders can Improve Problem-Solving Abilities

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    How Leaders can Improve Problem-Solving Abilities

    How Leaders can Improve Problem-Solving Abilities If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that problems can come at leaders fast and furious. Often, there’s no perfect solution in these complex situations, but the problems still need attention and can’t be ignored. Here are proven methods for leaders […]

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  • Embrace the Growth Mindset

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    In a video, Embrace the Growth Mindset, by fitness entrepreneur and motivational speaker Mike Rashid, the concepts of fixed and growth mindsets are explored in depth. Rashid draws from personal experience and psychological research to illustrate how these mindsets shape our approach to challenges and our overall potential for success. […]

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  • Difference between Leadership and Management?

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    What is the main difference between leadership and management? While many of you may think that these two terms mean the same thing, this is not the case. Moreover, leaders and managers can possess some very different skills and characteristics which we will cover later in this blog.  In this blog, […]

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  • Great Coaches, Have Coaches…

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    The Power of Coaching: Why the Best Coaches, Have Coaches Behind every successful athlete, executive, or high-performing individual, there is often an exceptional coach who plays a significant role in their journey to success. However, what might come as a surprise to some is that even these highly accomplished coaches […]

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  • Growing Your Leadership Resources with Social Media

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    Social media has erupted in our culture as an essential tool in our daily lives. Look at these staggering statistics from SmartInsights—58.4% of the world’s population now uses social networks, with an average daily use time of two hours and 27 minutes. These numbers reinforce how commonplace this digital resource has […]

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