[3-minute read] With the chaos of your day-to-day, growing gaps in your leadership skills are holding you back from better results. This article helps you identify two key areas to increase employee satisfaction and business results.
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[5.5-minutes read] When managing a new team, you want to build trust and synergy quickly. These five steps utilising proven marketing strategies will win your team over and have you focused forward in no time.
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[5-minute read] Making the right hire is one of the most important jobs of a leader. So why do we allow our subconscious to taint our perspective and potentially eliminate great candidates? Here are six things you can do improve your diversity in hiring by checking your unconscious bias.
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[5-minute read] Simon Sinek brought to light on the 4 major chemicals that drive how we feel and our behaviour. In this article, I discuss how leaders are impacting the rise and fall of Oxytocin and Serotonin and the impact on team trust and performance.
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[4-minute read] Simon Sinek brought to light on the 4 major chemicals that drive how we feel and our behaviour. In this article, I discuss how leaders are impacting the rise and fall of Endorphins and Dopamine and the impact on team motivation.
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[6-minute read] In a culture of giving regular feedback why do we have so many surprises when it comes time for promotions? In this article I share 3 of my common observations over time and what you can do you about it as a manager or employee.
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[4-minute read] Not everyone can be motivated in the same way. The best way to motivate people is finding a way that motivation comes from within. But before motivating our team members we must first understand if they are promotion or prevention focused. Once we know that we can tailor our message to get the desired result and avoid demotivating or disengaging them.
[5-minute read] As managers, we feel like we need to be giving advice whenever there is an opportunity. While coaching is on everyone's mind these days we need to learn to listen. To really listen in order to coach the team members we need to learn to be quiet and listen. Here are 5 tips I apply to myself as much as possible to help.
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[4-minute read] In the ever evolving organisational changes it is imperative for leaders to looking ahead. It is easy to settle into a business as usual routine only to be disrupted by a resignation or a re-organisation. In this article I outline 4 things a leader can do to minimise the disruption of change and move through it quicker those around you.
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[4-minute read] Sun Tzu principles are brilliant and span the ages. Connecting with your team brings about so many benefits including psychological safety through to making work fun. I have analysed the insights of 3 principles and applied them to people management to improve your teams performance and engagement.
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[3-minute read] Netflix has had accelerated growth over the years and besides being famous for it’s streaming service. After the release of the Netflix people and culture slides it was also a topic of debate. They have clear views on their expectations regarding their culture and their expected performance. I have always appreciated a few of their principles and wanted too share the 3 primary ones that I use with my teams.
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[4-minute read] The happiness of your team is directly correlated to the team culture. The team can handle stress better, ride through a storm as well as accomplish great feats. But culture is not something you can install. It is something you need to create the right environment, set an example and then slowly observe and support the culture that is grown from within. Here are 3 things that you can do to help upgrade your team's’ culture.
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[2-minute read] In a world that feels like everyone need to be an extrovert to get ahead.Yet the statistics show that over 50% of people are introverted. Managers need to improve their skills in understanding introverts, how they work and how to work with them to get the best out of them. This short article outlines three things that you should be considering to help the introverts in your team.
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