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Are you dying of indigestion or starvation?
Category: Blog | Team
Businesses are more likely to die of indigestion (overeating) than starvation. In startup mode, businesses are often big eater’s. They want to do and try everything. In scale-up mode, that type of over-eating can be dangerous and waste your team’s time. So, how do you control your appetite? I recommend using a document called PSPOT,…
Tags: | management, strategy, team
The secrets to running a team remotely….
Category: Blog | Team
Even before Covid 19, remote work was on the rise. Unsurprisingly, many businesses have found that remote work makes it increasingly difficult to preserve their company culture. After all, benefits such as childcare, happy hours, and social lunches don’t mean much if you’re not on site. What’s more, remote work has the potential to inhibit…
Tags: | leadership, remote
How leaders can learn, lead and grow
Category: Blog | Leadership
I am a big fan of Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. One thing these iconic leaders have in common is that they are veracious readers (Bill Gates reads about 50 books a year). Although I cannot even begin to compare myself to them, I do have the lifelong commitment to learn and grow intellectually while…
Tags: | learning
4 Customer experience trends to reflect on
Category: Blog | Strategy
From talking to both clients and many businesses over the last year one thing is clear: How to best serve customers as a company is in a state of flux. Accepting that the ways we operated in the past might not serve our business or our customers in the best way in the landscape that…
Tags: | coronavirus, Customer Experience, Customers
How to embrace conflict as a leader
Category: Leadership
The speed of your success as a leader will be determined by your ability to have difficult conversations. What many leaders don’t realise, or perhaps ignore, is that managing an individual includes having difficult conversations and managing conflict. No matter how high your emotional intelligence (EQ) is, you won’t agree with everyone. It is your…
How to check on your team’s well-being without being invasive
Category: Blog | Leadership | Team
Supporting employee wellness is not always easy. With lockdowns, home schooling, and ever changing health news, our pre Covid strategies aren’t necessarily effective right now. Our current work days may not be ‘normal,’ but we can adapt and apply new strategies to help our teams through the good times and the bad. Here, Leaders should…
Tags: | coronavirus, wellness
Time management myths that destroy your productivity
Category: Blog | Leadership
We are obsessed with time management. We spend a great deal of time and effort seeking out strategies, apps and tools that promise to help us squeeze in more work in seemingly fewer hours. Although some systems and tools deliver a benefit, they are perpetuating several time management myths. We need to unpack these myths…
Tags: | time management
Have you identified your business vulnerabilities?
Category: Blog | Leadership | Strategy Implementation
For trees, deep roots aren’t enough to survive storms. When walking, I often across oaks and pines that have come crashing down exposing deep, complex root systems that once anchored them in place. Yet palm trees rarely fall, even in the most severe storms, with flexibility that allows them to bend without breaking. This flexibility…
Tags: | planning
How to keep team alignment in an ever changing world
Category: Blog | Strategy Implementation | Team
In this challenging time the most successful leaders are winning the battle for their team(s) discretionary effort by maintaining alignment through effective communication. The importance of your communication is magnified in times of crisis or uncertainty. It is crucial to your team alignment and critical for your success in a constantly changing environment. Your team…
Tags: | implementation
How to boost your productivity…..
Category: Blog | Leadership
In the process of updating my Time Mastery workshop I started researching the idea of productivity. This concept has gone from being a clear, quantitative measure of each worker’s efficiency in a factory setting during the Industrial Age to a mix of everything in an office setting—psychology, creativity, business operations, collaboration, communications, etc. But it’s…
Tags: | productivity, time management
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