Improving a team’s performance is no doubt, a difficult task. There are different factors that affect the success of an organisation. It’s not just about the money you offer or what kind of benefits your team members have, but also how well you can keep up with...
With today's fast-changing circumstances and the ongoing fight against the pandemic, good leadership means more than just making sure that every team member gets the job done.It’s about preparing self-managing teams for the future, which entails coaching and promoting teamwork, and advancing team members' capability...
How-to turnaround your business: A leaders guide to designing strategies for significant business improvement A multi-pronged approach to achieving technological advancement can be mapped via identifying IT function and risks, assessing budgets, consulting with departments and in matching your technology strategy to reflect the broader business...
Key steps on becoming or engaging a turnaround executive The role of a turnaround or interim executive has never been more prevalent in the Australian business community as companies look to implement significant change, quickly, after the past 12 months. Numerous companies have been forced to cost...
In 2016 the New York Times printed an article that is still quoted often today. It was about the utilisation of the work of Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor at Harvard Business School, on building highly effective teams. The study, carried out over 5 years and costing millions...
This week I was speaking to a leader of a team I had worked with extensively in the last couple of years and all the measures and growth are tracking really well. They called and asked...
Have you ever struggled to align your goals to stand out, fit in and be yourself? Increasingly the clients I speak to do. Finding the balance or the sweet spot in the Venn diagram can feel like conflicting goals or competing goals. A team or organisational...
Life endures. That's what it does. Right now, this feels like an unprecedented crisis. Nearly a million people have died worldwide from a virus for which there may or may not be a vaccine depending on who you ask.In the midst of this pandemic, the Russians poisoned...
Customers and consumers often complain that companies don’t listen, don’t understand and don’t empathise (properly).“Everybody’s trying to sell me something but no one wants to look after me!!”There is growing evidence of confusion in organisations about the digitisation of customer experiences and how to authentically...
Just how much impact language has on the way we think is challenging to actually determine. What we do know from countless research papers is that language focuses our perception, attention and thought on specific aspects of the world. I don’t subscribe to the 'think and...