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Being a great leader
Leadership training from our kids?
Leadership is more important now than ever before. People are stepping up into leadership roles at work and within their communities as we band together (while practicing social distancing of course) to support our colleagues, friends and neighbours. This year That...
The difference between leaders and managers? Knowing the difference between boundaries and barriers
Boundaries should never be barriers. Much has been written about what motivates and drives people. Perhaps we can condense this all into the notion that at its simplest, what drives us is a desire to feel loved and accepted, to feel physically and emotionally safe....
Team coaching and Leadership: How to work with a team where the trust has gone
“What’s the difference between management and leadership?” A variation of that question (leadership versus management) is keyed into Google more than 1.2 million times a month. Leadership certainly is a hot topic. Do people want to know the difference between...
What is the difference between leadership and management?
So what’s the big difference between leadership and management? Every week I talk to managers who fear they might be failing the leadership test. Every week I work with teams who feel their managers are not leaders. Recently I read an article by John Kotter where he...
Calling all managers: how not to suck at coaching
Let me start by saying that giving advice is not coaching! How many times in a week do you get asked for advice? If you’re half-way good at your job, I’m going to guess that the answer is “frequently”. If you’re quick to offer your advice I’m going to be blunt: ...
Stress: Being a compassionate friend to ourselves
How many of us are kind and compassionate towards ourselves in times of stress? Most have us have known that feeling when we’ve got a lot on our plates; challenging targets, multiple demands (often a combination of work and home) and tight deadlines. Yet sometimes...
Stress: When last were you unplugged?
When last were you really, completely unplugged? A few years ago, I experienced it for the first time in a very long time around a campfire in Zimbabwe, the land of my birth. A campfire in a place that is only accessible by boat or plane. A place where rush hour...
Leadership – how can I be a leader with Emotional Intelligence?
It’s a beautiful spring day in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. We’ve just got back from our early morning safari drive. We began in the barely-light crisp cold, swaddled in fleece and thick woollen blankets. We return under clear blue skies, our faces upturned to...
What do leaders fear the most?
Senior executives have never been so well rewarded. In the UK it now takes the average CEO only three days to “earn” what the average employee takes home in a year. On top of this, lottery-sized exit packages and gold-plated pensions give those at the top...
Have you been promoted and left hanging?
Staff are crying out for emotionally intelligent management. In simple terms, we can usually divide our careers into two parts. Before we managed people and after. The first part of our career is usually spent building and honing our skills. We may start off as...
Leaders aren’t late: If you can’t manage your time you certainly can’t lead
Whenever I run a leadership program, I ask participants to list what they consider to be the essential traits of effective leadership. Along with “being trusted”, there are always those old clichés of “having vision”, or worse “charisma”. I never hear "time...
Motivation: Why carrots and sticks don’t work
We know what motivates people at work. We’ve known for a really long time and we’ve got an increasing amount of science to back it up. That’s the good news. The bad news is that this knowledge is rarely passed on at school, not taught on business school...
Moyra has worked with our organization to help us navigate a number of important change initiatives… consistently demonstrating an ability to help us see the gap between where we are and where we need to go… truly defining what it means to be a trusted advisor.
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