Today’s fast-changing world features speed, complexity and dense interdependencies. The ability to problem solve in real time is critical, in order to advance an organisation forward.
5 Warning Signs that your Executive team is Poor Performing
Posts by Marie-Claire Ross:
17 Positive Things a Leader can do to Improve their Team Culture
We are at a critical inflection point in workplaces today.
10 Important Employee Expectations of their Leaders Today
Over the last two years, the pandemic has been a catalyst to reevaluate our lives and work.
According to Gartner research, 65% of employees believe that the pandemic has made them rethink the place that work should have in their life.
Why it's Important to Talk about the People Side of Work
Cast your mind back to when you last had a face-to-face meeting in your leadership or management team. What did you talk about?
Typically, most leadership teams get together online and the focus is on individual reporting. People go around the room and talk about what results they have achieved. Every week, these weekly meetings focus on information sharing with little decision making, exchanging of ideas or big picture discussions.
7 Powerful Leadership Lessons from Queen Elizabeth II
The world mourns the passing of the beloved Queen Elizabeth. Not just because of her title, her wealth, or even her fame. We mourn because of the great loss we feel from a remarkable woman who lived in service and duty to her nation and the Commonwealth.
6 Instructive Steps to Progress from a Toxic to Tremendous Workplace Culture
Consider an organisation that has had some sort of major public relations disaster such as bullying or sexual harassment allegations, CEO or executive misbehaviours, regulatory breaches or even, fraud. For years, toxic behaviours have been tolerated, even rewarded. Exclusion, unethical decisions, disrespect and selfish actions have flourished. People behaving in these ways were almost never fired. Even worse, they were often promoted.
Leadership isn't about Looking Good, It's about Your Team Feeling Good
One of the common traps leaders make is falling into the belief that they need to prove they can do the work required, so they focus on the work to be done. This means they bury themselves in delivery, under-manage their team, promote their personal achievements and defer to managing up rather than managing their team.
How to Up-Level Your Leadership Through Balancing Opposing Concepts
One of the issues that leaders commonly grapple with is how to successfully balance two competing ideas. It is a skill that is both rare and extremely powerful.
In the wonderful book,
Built to Last by Jim Collins, he introduced the concept of the "Tyranny of the OR." In his research, he found that great business builders are able to embrace two extremes at the same time.
i.e.: purpose AND profit, continuity AND change.
How to Reduce Damage to Your Career from a Sociopath in the Workplace
One of the lowest points in my life was when my market research career ended abruptly because of sociopaths who destroyed my reputation. I've never shared this publicly because I have been too ashamed to talk about it.
11 Warning Signs you are Dealing with a Workplace Sociopath
One of the issues I always consider when CEOs come to me about improving trust in their leadership team is whether they have a sociopath in their midst. Over the years I've seen countless leadership teams have difficulties because either one or more team members is a sociopath. This even can include the CEO themselves.