-
How to Deal with Team Members Who Only Do the Bare Minimum
The Myth That Proactivity Is a Personality Trait I was talking to a client recently about a new-ish team member who on paper meets every KPI, finishes every task, meets every deadline. And…nothing beyond that. No stretch or initiative, no energy beyond the minimum. My client felt frustrated and at her wit’s end about what…
-
Why Winter Is the Perfect Season to Rebuild Team Culture
What Winter Can Teach Us About Leadership and Teams By the time you read this, I’ll have been somewhere between Sydney and Scone – travelling across Australia to help teams work better together. As I’m writing this though, I’m still fighting off jetlag from my Europe trip, re-adjusting to fewer hours of sunlight, and about…
-
How to Be a More Effective Leader Through Better Questions
Leadership Is About People—Not Just Processes I’ve always said that the tricky part about leadership is the people part. No two people are alike and no one blueprint is going to work for leading every person, or through any situation. And our job as leaders is… to move people to do their absolute best. How…
-
How to Build a Collaborative Team Culture That Drives Results
The Role of Trust and Psychological Safety in Teamwork Great teams have this in common: they are good at collaborating. But collaboration doesn’t just happen. When people don’t trust each other enough… When they don’t feel comfortable having sometimes-difficult conversations… When they work in silos, focus on their own results and protect their ‘patch’… …then…
-
Why Team Wellbeing Starts With You A Leader’s Role in Healthy Work Culture
Your Wellbeing Sets the Standard for the Team Work life balance may not be a perfectly measurable (or even entirely realistic) goal. Everyone has different needs and goes through different work and life seasons. But there is a perfect starting point to team wellbeing—it starts with YOU, the leader. Healthy Leaders Create Healthy Cultures As leaders, when…
-
How to Build a Teamwork Culture That Actually Works
‘Teamwork attitude’ is one of those attributes you often see on CVs. We want to hire people who can work well in teams. There’s another side to that. Teamwork is not a natural talent or a personality trait. Nor is it a skill that can be expressed, no matter what. It needs the perfect environment…
-
Why ‘Doing It All Yourself’ Is Costing You More Than You Think
Recently I was talking with a friend who is a solopreneur and was feeling overwhelmed with the many hats she has to wear. When I asked if she considered outsourcing, she confessed trying it before, but it hadn’t quite worked out. ‘I think I was hoping they’d read my mind. I had no capacity to…
-
From Fear to Confidence: Helping Inexperienced Team Members Grow
We’ve been talking a lot about difficult and toxic people. But I wanted to touch on another reason people can be really tricky to manage. It came to mind as a friend was telling me about the difficult young tradie her husband was managing. When he did show up, he seemed eager to please and do…
