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Why it's Important to Talk about the People Side of Work

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.

6 Instructive Steps to Progress from a Toxic to Tremendous Workplace Culture

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

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

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.