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Leadership: imagine yourself as a frog...
Have you heard the boiling frog anecdote? I was reminded of it by a recent conversation in which the topic was organisations who don’t realise they’re in trouble... until it’s past the point of no...
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The ONE thing to do if you want to hire staff in 2013
There have been a number of commentators and surveys in the past few weeks that, in one way or another, suggest more businesses will be looking to hire staff in 2013. Although growth is likely to be...
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Five business reasons to invest in developing your people
Once a business has hired people, whether it’s as little as two or as much as two hundred, giving employees the opportunity for development is a must. Why? Put simply, developing your employees...
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Mental Toughness: do you have what it takes?
If you heard the words mental toughness would it conjure up a picture of someone who is super resilient, able to deal with any situation no matter how stressful and no matter how critical the decisions...
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Which animal best describes your leadership style?
This is the type of slightly left field question that some organisations have been using during interviews. It seems to be more prevalent at the moment – maybe it’s an attempt to make a particular...
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Every organisation needs a leadership brand.
I want to qualify this statement by defining what I mean by leadership brand. It isn’t, as many may think about an individual leader’s brand (what I would call a personal brand) – what I refer to is...
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How good is your “gut feel”?
Most of us widely use this phrase. As leaders and managers, going with your “gut feel” or something that “feels right” is usually somewhere in the mix when you’re making a decision – it’s your...
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You either have talent or you don't.
Success. It's about two things: having talent or putting in the hard work and effort that will make you a success. How you view it is dependent on your own perspective... so, which camp do you fall in?...
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Feedback is vastly underrated.
Question: why is that when you hear someone say “can I give you some feedback?” most people will automatically think that the ‘feedback’ is likely to be negative. I don’t know how much research exists...
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Authentic Leaders Take the Checkered Flag!
Is it possible to be an effective Authentic Leader at the upper levels of an organisation without having worked your way up from junior and middle levels?Lets review the challenges any new senior...
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When is a team NOT a team?
As Laurence Fishburne says to Neo “Welcome to the Real” referring to the real world as opposed to the dream world in the film ‘The Matrix’. This links nicely to the subject of this blog which is the...
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