As 2023 starts to well and truly gear up how are your resolution going? Whether it’s eating healthier, getting more sleep, quitting smoking, hitting the gym more often, or taking up a new hobby – a new year is the perfect time for a fresh reset on old habits. How do you ensure your resolutions […]
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Reflect on the past year and set your intentions for the year to come with the help of the Inner Development Goals (IDG) framework. Reflect on the entire dimension as a whole or split each dimension up into the 4 or 5 skills it includes and score these separately. How did you score in 2022.
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Many of my clients have been noticing the same thing, “Everyone on my team seems tired…all the time. It seems like they’re in a fog, and I don’t know what to do.” The last two years of volatility, increased employee turnover, supply chain disruptions, and changing workforce expectations about flexibility are culminating in a human
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In many of the organisations I work with, I find that teams are a protective factor against the adverse effects of stress and burnout. We know that team leaders and managers play a critical role in the team’s performance and their engagement. Yet many organizations are missing an opportunity to seriously develop team leader capability
Why we are not serious about developing team leaders? Read More »
Today while facilitating a large meeting, I actually got people to focus and be present in the room. This has been a real challenge for me and others in our new virtual meeting world. Sometimes it’s even a challenge to ask people to keep their camera on! Make a Different Decision Today I did this
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The Covid-19 pandemic led to many benefits for workers, one of which is the work-from-home arrangement. As much as it has proven to be cost and time efficient, working remotely has also led to feelings of isolation and burnout for some people as well as issues of visibility for employers. Regardless, the study conducted by
Balancing Act: The New Equation in Hybrid Working (Part 1) Read More »
We know that different perspectives and ideas lead to innovation and better performance. However, in practice, diversity can sometimes hurt team performance resulting in frustration or misunderstanding. Why is this so? Diversity on its own is not enough, we also need enablers to optimise a team’s performance so they can leverage diverse perspectives, skills and
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I had the idea for this blog because of an article I saw recently on the Atlassian website. It tried to answer the question, “how do you build a kick-ass agile team”. Which is a great question. We would all benefit from knowing how to lead a team to greatness and how to know whether
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We don’t need human resources! Structure is the death of good culture! I’m hearing this a lot lately. Particularly from organisations in start-up stages in the tech space. Whilst these organisations are in the early stages of their evolution, they already have a large number of staff (around 250 or over) and they do care
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Transitioning to Hybrid Working is not about going back to normal. 2020 was the year the world went remote. Work from home became a daily norm. Two years later, we now see world economies easing into the new normal. However workplaces are anything but ‘back to normal’. Employers want to re-establish normality and employees want
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