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Empower Rather Than Delegate
“We need to get rid of rules – real and imagined – and encourage independent thinking.”–Howard...
What’s Your Leadership AQ?
I’m sure you’ve heard of the terms Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Intelligence Quotient (IQ); but few...
The Confidence-Competence Matrix
As a leader we are all too familiar with the struggle that often exists between the need to get...
What’s Your Leadership Wake?
The term wake is a boating term that refers “to the trail of disturbed water that is...
What Are Your Leadership Anchors?
In today’s VUCA world it is important to have leadership anchors (secure bases) to help us feel...
Are You Putting In Enough EFFORT?
Recently I was attending some sales training and we were discussing the difference between a fixed...
5 Tips To Be An Effective Time Leader
Do you often feel that the day gallops away with you and you don’t get done what you wanted? Do...
5 Steps To Help You Transform and Reinvent
We’ve all heard the phrase “Change is constant” and I think we can all agree that right now the...
Building Trust: A Leadership Imperative
For many years trust has been considered a “soft” corporate issue, in part because it has been so...
3 Lessons From Emerging Leaders On The Power of Differing Perspectives
Great leaders are those people that can view any situation through multiple lenses, and so find...
Leveraging Leadership R&D
With increasing demands in our time, one of the challenges that leaders continually face is that...
Different Thinking. Different Leadership.
"Our current model of success is not designed to make us happy, to give us fulfillment, to give us...
6 Habits of High-Performance Leaders
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going". Jim Rohn For many years, I...
Designing Workspaces For Different Personalities
Modern offices are set up to suit one way of working: to satisfy people who thrive with a surplus...
How To Leverage The 7 Universal Laws
Did you know there are seven universal laws that influence everything we do? Great leaders do, and...
Thriving Organisations Have a Heart And Brain
There are two fundamental requirements that every business owner must consider when building a...
Are You Playing Whac-A-Mole in Your Business?
During the Christmas vacation the moles have come to live in my horses’s field. Every day I...
3 Misconceptions about employee engagement
As a manager, you naturally want to do the right thing by your employees. But what if your...
Six Ways To Create An Engaged People Centric Business Culture
Yet again the most recent Gallup statistics paint a very dire picture of how low employee...
5 Strategies For Leading A High Performance Team
No leader sets out to lead an ineffective team. In fact, many leaders invest a lot of time and...
Engagement Not Leadership Is Strategic Way To Win Business
Small and medium-sized businesses are the life-blood of our economy, but they face specific,...
5 Ways To Manage Your Energy Levels
No-one doubts that we live in a world that is moving at lightning pace. In fact, the speed of...
Is Your Management Team Fit for Purpose?
As a business owner of a growing enterprise the only way that you can sustain growth and your...