What happens when people believe what you believe
A few weeks ago the paperback version of my book “My Job Isn’t Working!” was released. You may well already know that, as I have been shouting about it ruthlessly and shamelessly, as a tribute to my wife who passed away suddenly when she...
The Top Three Dysfunctions of a Meeting
For the last 20 years or so I have been unwittingly researching corporate dysfunctionality through my work in Leadership Development around the world. Over that time, from conversations with thousands of mid career workers, I have noticed a pattern in what causes the...
The Top 3 ways to update your Leadership style
One of the exercises I use most often in my leadership workshops is to split the group into three and ask them to consider what skills and qualities are required of them as leaders, and how this is different to five years ago. They have to agree what they think are...
Why Leadership is harder now than it’s ever been.
Leadership skills are a precious resource in the workplace, and there are forces which contrive to make them increasingly scarce. The first and most obvious of these is that Leadership is often time -consuming (taking time to understand other people, to get to know...