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How to Reset Your Team Culture for a Successful New Year
Starting a new year brings the promise of renewal, of better, of leaving behind the old ways, the old problems, and starting afresh. Everything will be better next year. Bring it on! Except, that doesn’t happen by sheer magic. We need to do something about it, right? When it comes to your goals and vision…
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The Smart Manager’s Approach to Handling Difficult Employees
It only takes one difficult person for a team to be really impacted, and for the culture to be impacted. If they’re difficult with you, there’s a 99.99% chance that they’re difficult with others too, and that the rest of the team is looking to you for direction on how to deal with them. What…
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Managing Organizational Change: What Leaders Can Learn from the Referendum
With my change specialist hat on, I’ve been observing closely the recent referendum. And I think, regardless of how you voted on the day, there are lessons on how to manage change that every business can take from the process. As a leader, you have to deal with managing change at some point. That’s when…
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Why Onboarding Matters: Setting New Leaders Up for Success
Why Most Onboarding Processes Fail New Leaders Have you ever had the kitchen sink thrown at you during your onboarding into a new role? Or did everyone assume you’d just work it out and they told you nothing? (If you answer no to both of these approaches, then you have to reply and tell me…
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How to Build a Workplace Culture That Truly Supports Wellbeing
If we care about, and look after people’s wellbeing, we’re going to get better results in the workplace. Simple as that. And that’s because, as humans, we simply can’t leave our personal lives at the door. How to Balance Business Goals with Employee Wellbeing Blanket approaches, even when well-intentioned, don’t always work, because wellbeing is…
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How to Make Meetings More Engaging and Effective for Your Team
Why Traditional Meetings Create Resistance and Resentment Why do you have meetings? Most likely to get things done, to plan forward, to assign tasks. If humans were robots, then the way we currently run meetings would work just fine. What’s on the agenda? Who’s gonna do what? Are we good? Everyone clear? Meeting closed. But…
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I made a lampshade. It wasn’t pretty.
There’s no shortage of information these days. Free, cheap or pricey – take your pick. You can learn how to do anything. Like… a lampshade. How hard can it be, right? ALL the information is out there: YouTube videos that take you through every step, see you move through any snags without a glitch. Just…
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What do you do when you have an emotional reaction at work?
How do you deal with people who display aggressive or passive behaviour at work? It’s tricky, isn’t it? I am just back from running workshops across Australia, and that was one of the challenges that many of the attending leaders struggle with. This comes up A LOT in my work. Because if leadership was only…
