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Why do we have a Resilience Problem?
The reason we have a resilience problem is because we live in a world that we are no longer designed for. I appreciate that this is a simplistic explanation so there will be other factors and reasons involved. I want to outline what I believe to be the foundation of the resilience problem. Let’s go…
3 Tips for Effectively Communicating with Your Remote Workforce
If you’re in a leadership position at your company, you already know the value of having excellent communication skills—and how communication is essential for fostering your team’s productivity. Whether conveying important information to clients or disseminating tasks to internal teams, great communicators are able to share essential information while simultaneously inspiring and connecting with their…
Relearning the Same Mistake
One of the things that most people believe is that they learn from their mistakes. I don’t think that is true. We like to think that we do but the reality is that analysing mistakes is often too is painful – so we avoid it. I also believe that the majority of our decisions and…
Do you Plan Tactically or Strategically?
We are far better at planning for the short-term than we are for the long-term. Think about when you get in the car. If you don’t know where you are going, you tap in the details to a sat-nav system to tell you the route. You might have an advanced system that updates itself to…
Why High Performers Struggle with Feedback
Challenge and feedback are both valuable but often difficult to receive. Why? How can something that is good for you generate a negative emotional reaction? Challenge reminds us that there are many ways in which we can view the world. It reminds us that there are other perspectives out there rather than just our own.…
The Principles of Leadership
What Does the Word “Leadership” Mean? The word leadership is like the word religion, it means so much that it actually means very little. My neighbour goes to Church every Sunday, she could be described as religious… but then so could a jihadi fighting for Isis in the Middle-East. The broader the definition of the…
10 Questions that Uncover High Performers…
One of the challenges involved in building a high performing team is selecting the right people. You can’t build a high performing team with low performing people so who you let into your organisation matters. It is arguably one of the most important decisions you make especially if your team is small. Hiring someone is…
The Human Givens Approach
We have an expectation that people should understand us. Understand our perspective, our reasoning and our expectations from other people. The problem with this is that we rarely know ourselves. We don’t often know what we want out of life. We don’t know what makes us happy. And we rarely know why we behave in…
Six Thinking Errors – Which one is Yours?
There are six common thinking errors that people suffer from. These are examples of negative mental models that people have. I describe them as negative because they usually lead to a behaviour or a feeling that we don’t want. If you can understand them and watch out for the ones that you suffer from, you…
Are you an Unpredictable Leader?
Have you ever slogged your guts out on a piece of work making sure that every fact and figure has been checked? Have you ever written a report where you’ve really put the time and effort in to make sure the research and the conclusions ‘stack-up’ to some tough scrutiny? And then when you’ve shared…
How to Exponentially Increase Team Productivity
Last week, I wrote about personal productivity pointing out that not everything on the ‘to-do list’ has equal impact. I also wrote about planning using your energy levels and briefly touched upon the concept of ‘deep work’. I think that most people know about these concepts but if knowledge was the only thing we needed,…
2 Simple Tips that will Dramatically Improve your Productivity…
If you google ‘productivity tips’, chances are you will get lots of tactical advice, hints and tips that can help you cram more into the day. ‘Tidy your desk, work fewer hours, ignore your phone or even take a nap at work.’ My personal favourite is ‘get up early’. Bill Gates gets up at 0400…
