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The Three Areas of Leadership Focus
Self-focus, others focus and a wider world focus Being a leader is continually demanding role. To be effective you not only need to know what to focus on, but also what to not focus on. This is made more complex is that you need focus on and understand yourself, your people or team, and the business environment in which you operate. Self-focus and others focus on developing your emotional intelligence, and a wider world focus develops your strategic, management and
Stressed? It’s a Matter of Perspective and Choice!
A simple lesson for managing your stress. I’d like to share a short story I came across a long time ago. While it is short, the story is full of insights, learning, and wisdom. “A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they'd be asked the "half empty or half full" question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: "How heavy is this glass
Decisions for Speed to Market
How to make decisions at speed Speed to market is increasingly important when you need to respond to business, competitive or market changes. Making a poor decision, implementing a decision poorly or taking too long can cost you money and time, and create stress and frustration. Here are five steps for deciding at speed: Make decisions faster. Often this is about making a choice to decide. Do you need more information, or are you using this as an excuse to
Freedom & Choice
Choosing your own way, and choosing to be free of interference from others in doing so What does freedom mean to you? You will come up with many answers covering many concepts, situations or contexts – but they all fall into one of two categories: freedom from and freedom to. “Freedom to” – this is the freedom to attain certain outcomes and realize our full potential (an ability) “Freedom from” – the absence of others (or things) forcibly interfering with
Conflict Styles, Five Ways for Managing Conflict
Styles to adopt to get the outcome you seek Now you know what kind of outcome – in terms of both the outcome and the relationship (see ‘The Conflict Outcomes Matrix’ article) - you are looking for the question now is how can you manage the conflict in the most appropriate way? There are five main styles that can be adopted, and these are shown below. The Five Ways by which to Manage Conflict
Hiring for Attitude
How attitude is a good predictor of prospective employee success, and how you can identify those with the right attitude for your business. The top challenge for CEOs according to a survey from the Conference Board (January 2013) is Human Capital – the ability to develop and acquire the right people, with the right skills needed to take the business to the next level. But skills alone are not enough. “Hire for Attitude, Train for Aptitude” This is an old
Handling Negative Feedback
A few tips on how to handle negative feedback well rather than poorly We all have experienced receiving negative feedback, and if we are honest there are times when we have not handled well. We may know what to do, but in the moment of the feedback being given to us our amygdala brain hijacks us - this is the part of the brain responsible for detecting danger and our survival reactions, normally “fight or flight”. One consequence of this
Evaluating The Feedback You Receive
3 steps how to receive feedback, especially when it is unsolicited We grow best by building on our strengths, not by constantly trying to correct our "weaknesses." That's the essence of positive psychology. Yet the overwhelming feedback we receive - even when solicited—is about correcting some failing. Often we take the feedback to heart, and we spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure where we went wrong. But should we? Do you really have a problem? When
Improving Your Leadership Behaviour to Help Others
If what you are doing isn’t getting what you want then you have two choices: you can either settle for that which you do not want or, secondly, change what you’re doing to change what you get. To do this you need to know what you want (and what you don’t want), and how you are going to change to effect this. Think of a time when how you acted in or reacted to a situation was not your finest