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Building A Better Board
The Board is ultimately responsible for the direction and performance of their organisation. How do you spot a Board that isn’t working at its best? Stacy Zeiger in the Chron lists 10 indicators that a Board might be dysfunctional. These include hostility, lack of confidentiality, lack of order and respect, dominating or not engaging in conversations, conflicting agendas…
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When Trust Is Shaken – What Does It Take To Regain And Maintain?
Trust is the cornerstone of effective relationships, great work, brilliant teams. When we have trust we have freedom to try new things, to give and receive feedback. Without trust it’s very hard to improve what we do and the way we do it. At Big Goals trust is the core of our business. Our clients…
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Busy projects going nowhere
Ever wonder why things don’t happen when you have been doing so much? Sometimes busyness is confused with achievement and we continue to do things without realising that we may be missing the mark. Recently I worked with a client who had been trying to implement a project for over three years. There had been…
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Why do we ignore the poor performer?
Do you work with people you know are not performing well? Do you feel like you are ‘carrying’ people in your team? So often we speak with people who are frustrated because, to them, it is so obvious that people in their team are not performing, yet no action is taken. In one organisation, we…
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Three steps to take the sting out of difficult conversations
So often at work we avoid having difficult conversations because, for many of us, it is just too hard. We have worked in plenty of organisations where people tell us they have recommended people for promotion just to get rid of them and avoid having the difficult conversations about their poor performance or behaviour. Often…
