“It’s awful to have to wait for my performance review to know how I’m doing!” Have you ever worked in an organisation where avoiding punishment became your main motivation? Many of us have had that experience. Don’t push that same fate onto your team! Give instant feedback. Instant feedback means baby steps Take small steps …
Why create clarity for a common purpose? How would you feel if you had: More time to think and plan, giving your business the help it really needs? More time to spend with family, friends, or on hobbies? More time to relax and less stress? Fewer costly staff turnovers, less sick days and absenteeism? The …
Slow decision-making is the #1 complaint of collaborative teams and project management delays and failures. In this earlier blog, I introduced the consent decision-making process. This is useful when you need to make a decision relatively fast and need input from the people involved. It can include making decisions for new policies, processes, or procedures. …
Great leaders listen and create solutions together Ask your team what they love about working for you and what gets in the way of them being able to do their best work. Write down everything they say. Together, pick the smallest barrier and work with your team to discuss changes to improve it. You could …
Practice listening with the consent process Once you collected your ideas in the circle meeting, you can start on a proposal for a solution. A proposal to solve the issue about too many meetings affecting people’s productivity could look like this: ‘Some of you mentioned that we could try to communicate in different ways such …
What is the most important leadership skill? Listening. Take it from Gallup who invited Susan Brady, CEO of the Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership, to talk about this on their podcast. Susan emphasises that listening to your people creates the psychological safety they need to feel safe speaking up at work. What are the …
Brave leaders provide their people with the right support that gets the best results. This week is the World Kindness, World Freedom and International Day for Tolerance. Those are good ingredients for a high performing workplace culture. Research also shows that employers should reward workers for accomplishments, not hours worked. A user on Reddit commented …
What makes a brave leader? Providing transparency and psychological safety. Read More »
What makes a good leader is a question you might have asked yourself before. And you probably heard about the differences between managers and leaders. In our newly defined workplaces, where most people work from home and decisions need to be made daily, a few leaders are not enough anymore. Top-down managed or led companies …
What makes a good leader? Power dynamics at work. Read More »
First Published by MHR. Strategies to support businesses and people during economic crisis. Almost two years ago, I wrote this blog for eLearning Industry: 4 Practical Tips To Inspire Learning In Your Business. One of the tips was about working ‘with experienced […] freelancers to draw from their expertise’. My reasoning behind this was that if money is …
3 reasons why outsourcing could support businesses and save the economy Read More »
Distributed leadership case study: the client The client for this case study was a creative agency with 50 employees. Distributed leadership case study: the diagnosis The company struggled with a high turnover (30% compared to their industry average of 22%), stressed management and demotivated, unproductive, disengaged employees. Managers constantly complained about people being off sick, …
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